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Cover
Title
Dedication
Contents
INTRODUCTION
EQUIPMENT
BREAKFASTS
Homemade granola
Warm buckwheat blinis with summer fruit
Proper baked beans on soda bread toast
Sweetcorn pancakes, dry-cured bacon and maple syrup
Toasted oat porridge and hot-smoked salmon
Warm ham, parsley and sheep’s milk cheese
Black pudding and sautéed Cornish new potatoes with homemade brown sauce
Eggy bread with chocolate and orange sauce
SOUPS & SALADS
Celeriac and Bramley apple soup
Curried parsnip soup and pickled apples
Cockle and potato chowder with sweet vinegar
Chicken and sweetcorn soup
Puy lentils in smoked pancetta broth
Lamb and pearl barley broth
Turnip and horseradish soup with crispy beef
Frisée, poached egg and garlic croûton salad with roasted garlic dressing
Fried duck egg, duck leg, spiced onion and pak choi salad
Blowtorched English lettuce, soft-boiled egg and salted anchovy salad with homemade salad cream
Iceberg lettuce and hake with lemon oil
Potato and leek salad with mussel dressing
Classic Caesar salad
Chicken liver and French bean salad in a shallot and white wine reduction
Roasted green pepper salad in horseradish dressing served with roasted bone marrow
Mixed beans and bacon salad in a bacon dripping dressing
Warm tomato, onion and bread salad with beef dripping dressing
Baby spinach and fried sausage salad with English dressing
Crispy pork skin, mustard leaf and frankfurter salad with smoked garlic vinaigrette
STARTERS & SNACKS
Asparagus with duck egg yolk dressing and parsley
Scrambled eggs with English truffle
Braised leeks, blue cheese and toasted oats
St George’s mushrooms, garlic and parsley on sourdough toast
Spring onions, onion seeds and shallot dressing
Salmon tartare and chopped eggs with soda bread
Gin-cured salmon with buttermilk pancakes
Blowtorched mackerel with buckwheat blinis and pickled beetroot
Soused mackerel with dill-pickled vegetables
Mussels cooked in ale
Crab, broad beans and marjoram
Warm crayfish and watercress salad in potato skins
Smoked haddock, Parmesan and crème fraîche omelette
Steak tartare on chargrilled sourdough with roasted beef marrow and watercress
Crispy pig’s cheeks and deep-fried shallots with taramasalata and flat breads
Braised pearl barley, smoked chicken and wild garlic
Baked egg custards, crispy ham and brown bread croûtons
Warm buttered ham, English broccoli stalks and fried capers
Double Gloucester cheese scones and Old Spot bacon with sage butter
Potted ham hock, mustard seeds and tarragon jelly
Crispy pig’s ears with truffle oil mayonnaise
Pig’s trotters and bacon on toast
Game terrine glazed in port jelly with cranberry compôte
Pork pie with piccalilli
Potted rabbit with carrot and carrot-top salad
Deep-fried ‘popcorn’ cockles with chilli vinegar
Oyster fritters with seaweed mayonnaise
Deep-fried whitebait with Marie Rose sauce
Pickled quail’s eggs with curried onion sauce
Salt cod Scotch eggs with red pepper sauce
Spicy roasted nuts
Smoky bacon crisps
Pork scratchings
FISH
Fish and chips with pea purée and tartare sauce
Lattice-topped fish pie
Pot-roasted pollock, chickpeas and chorizo
Halibut, wild rice and sorrel baked in puff pastry with lime cream
Fish burgers with herb mayonnaise
Proper Paella
Salmon fishcakes with watercress soup
Smoked haddock fishcakes with fried egg and cheese sauce
Tomato and olive tart with Cornish gurnard
Steamed trout and courgette flowers with Parmesan tuiles and horseradish mayonnaise
Steamed orange and thyme rainbow trout
Turbot, toasted cucumber, mushrooms and radishes
Grey mullet, Swiss chard and butter sauce
Plaice poached in red wine, slow-roasted onions and salt-baked carrots
Sea bass, sea vegetables and mussels
Flaked skate, dandelion leaves, charred lemon and anchovies
Gilthead bream and oyster mushrooms
Whole lemon soles, mustard leaves and turnips cooked in cider
Spiced monkfish and aubergine purée with green olive dressing
Salmon barbecued in pine with pine nut and Parmesan pesto
Barbecued sardines with salt-cured onion salad
Chilli-hot grilled mackerel with shrimp kachumber
MEAT
Hot pork buns with rhubarb sauce
Brined pork belly and Puy lentils with black cabbage salsa
Pork faggots in onion gravy
Mustard-flavoured salt-baked pork knuckles and roasted cabbage
Honey-roasted bacon and malt-vinegar-mint sauce with pease pudding
Hot salt-beef bagels with pickled vegetables and black pepper cream cheese
Ginger-braised ox cheeks with spiced red lentils and watercress yogurt
Flash-fried sirloin steaks with mustard seed dressing
Braised shin of beef in red wine
Treacle-cured beef and roast potatoes with Yorkshire puddings
Barbecued short rib of beef, British style
Rare bavette of beef and charred onions with mushroom ketchup
Jacob’s ladder and braised carrots with bone-marrow bread pudding
Curried lamb and pearl barley with cucumber raita
Rolled breast of lamb with cracked wheat, merguez sausages and chilli oil
Rump of salt marsh lamb and broccoli stalks with anchovy dressing
Slow-roasted shoulder of lamb with boulangère potatoes
Duck confit with blowtorched chicory and mash
Slow-roasted duck with braised lettuce and potato pancakes
Wild rabbit and bacon with dandelion salad and wet polenta
Pot-roasted pheasant, game chips and bread sauce
Venison steaks with red cabbage and potato pancakes
Venison, peppered sprouts, squash purée and chocolate sauce
Tom’s fried chicken in a basket
Hay-baked chicken and roasted celeriac
Turkey roll with Christmas crumble topping and sage and onion stuffing
PUDDINGS
Apple and toffee crumble tart
Date and toffee puddings with caramelised bananas
Bread and butter pudding
Cherry Bakewell tart
Gloucester lardy cake with orange caramel
Chocolate and ale cake with muscovado and malt cream
Barbecued maple cake
Sesame sponge cake with green tea sorbet and poached plums
Stewed gooseberries with elderflower dumplings and sweet cheese
Plum fool with pink peppercorn shortbread biscuits
Brown sugar-cured Devon strawberries and lavender in choux buns
Crunchy pears baked with peanut brittle
Buffalo vanilla ice cream
Pressed mango and strawberries with strawberry ice cream
Amaretto baba in honey with rosemary-poached peaches
Grapefruit meringue pies
Rum junket with coffee macaroons
Lemon verbena creams with charred lemon and meringues
Lemon posset with fennel biscotti
Chocolate and coffee mousse
Gin and tonic granita with apple caramel
Spiced orange cake with plum sauce and Christmas pudding ice cream
Steamed ginger puddings with vanilla custard
BASICS
Beef sauce base
Beef gravy
Lamb sauce base
Red wine sauce
Chicken sauce stock base
Brown chicken stock
Curry powder
Pickle mix
Soda bread
Rye bread sauce
Toffee sauce
Salt caramel
Mulled cider
CHEERS, CHAPS!
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