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Index
Cover
Title Page
Contents
Introduction by Iqbal Wahhab
Introduction by Marcus Verberne
carving
Your tools and their upkeep
Carving tips
Carving roast chicken and other birds
Carving roast fore rib of beef
Carving roast leg of lamb or mutton
Carving a centre-cut roast saddle of lamb
Carving roast loin of pork
breakfast
Eggs Benedict
Fried duck’s egg with baby squid, chorizo and wild garlic
The ‘Mighty’ full Borough
Drop scones with yoghurt cream and summer berries
Black pudding hash with a fried egg and girolles
Bubble ’n’ Squeak
Porridge
Smoked haddock kedgeree
Grilled kippers with lemon butter
Eggy bread with crispy bacon and roast bananas in golden syrup
Toasted crumpets with poached eggs, Bath Pig chorizo and sweetcorn
Crumpets
Baked beans
from the sea
Salt-baked wild sea bass
Roasted brill with brown shrimps and capers
Herb-crusted fillet of pollack with seashore vegetables and oyster cream
Gin-cured salmon with soused cucumber
Pan-fried gurnard fillet with clams in cider and wild boar pancetta
Baked razor clams with a chorizo crust
Monkfish curry with crispy spiced shallots
Pan-fried scallops with whipped cauliflower and cobnut butter
Herb-roasted fillet of wild sea trout with a warm spring vegetable salad and crackling
Garfish fingers and chips with tartare sauce
Wild sea bass with Dublin Bay prawns and summer vegetables in a saffron broth
Marinated Manx queenies with lime, peas and dill
Crab on toast
Mussel and fennel broth
Steamed mussels in cider with smoked bacon and Cox’s apple
Mum’s fish pie
Scrumpy-battered rock oysters with sweet apple and shallot vinegar
poultry
Cock-a-leekie
Roast chicken with sage-roasted squash, smoked bacon and creamed sweetcorn
Chicken, leek and oyster mushroom pie
Roasted corn-fed duck with thyme-roasted beetroot and blood orange sauce
Guinea fowl braised in sherry with morels and wild garlic
Roast Christmas turkey
Baked goose eggs with chicken livers, bacon and sourdough soldiers
Roast goose with baked Cox’s apples stuffed with boozy prunes and walnuts
lamb, mutton and goat
Anchovy-rubbed, hay-baked leg of mutton with parsley and caper sauce
Pan-fried lamb’s sweetbreads with smoked bacon and pea shoots
Barbecued fillet of lamb neck with a spelt, lemon and herb salad and cucumber yoghurt
Slow-roasted shoulder of lamb with rosemary root vegetables and Mum’s mint relish
Lancashire hotpot
Crispy breast of lamb with a minted spring vegetable salad
Roasted rack of lamb with buttered turnips and baker’s potatoes
Crumbed lambs’ brains with a broad bean and caper salad
Pan-fried lambs’ kidneys with bacon and girolles on a boxty pancake
Goat curry
pork
Ham hock and girolle pie with pease pudding
Slow-roasted pork belly with mashed potato and Bramley apple sauce
Braised pork cheeks in cider with black pudding and butter beans
Breaded pork cutlet with a fried duck’s egg, anchovies and capers
Roast suckling pig
Honey-glazed leg of ham
Crispy pork and wild herb salad with cobnuts and elderberries
Ham and garden pea soup
beef
Roast fore rib of beef
Salt beef croquettes with whipped peas and dandelion
Borough Burger
Chargrilled 1kg T-bone steak with scrumpy-battered onion rings
Beef shin and ale pie with a suet crust and baked bone marrow
Steak and kidney pudding
Braised short ribs in porter with battered rock oysters
Oxtail and root vegetable soup
Jellied ox tongue with pickled beets and horseradish
game
Wild rabbit and dandelion salad with elderberries and pea shoots
Gamekeeper’s terrine
Traditional roast grouse with parsnip crisps and rowan berry jelly
Roast partridge with creamed spelt, rainbow chard and winter chanterelles
Fillet of red deer Wellington with haggis, girolles and bashed neeps
Clear game broth with pearl barley and Laphroaig single malt
Braised red deer shanks with dried sour cherries
Wild rabbit and cider pie with snails and ramsons
Gamekeeper’s pie
Hare and poached quince salad with foraged herbs and crispy bacon
Roast pheasant breast with creamed Brussels sprouts, smoked bacon and roasted chestnuts
Roast mallard with a gamekeeper’s pie and elderberry sauce
vegetables
Heritage tomatoes on toast with celery hearts and shaved Berkswell
Chilled golden tomato soup with buffalo mozzarella and basil
Steamed asparagus with St George’s mushrooms and wild garlic
Chilled, minted pea soup with preserved lemon and goat’s curd
Crisp summer vegetable salad with shaved Caerphilly
Chicory and apple coleslaw with kohlrabi and golden raisins
Shaved asparagus, fennel and blood orange salad
Mixed beetroot and blood orange salad with foraged herbs and Ragstone goat’s cheese
Sprout top hearts with roasted chestnuts and wild boar pancetta
Celeriac and apple soup with toasted walnuts
Sweetcorn and smoked haddock chowder
Heritage squash and goat’s curd tart with pickled walnuts
puddings
Sticky date pudding with poached autumn fruits and clotted cream
Warm tapioca pudding with rhubarb and stem ginger compote
Cox’s apple and bramble crumble with custard
Eton mess with strawberries and elderflower
Cinnamon ring doughnut with a Perry-poached pear and hot chocolate sauce
Mrs Wade’s plum and almond tart with bay leaf ice cream
Almond cake with poached apricots and yoghurt cream
Soft-centred chocolate pudding with sea-salted caramel ice cream
Blood orange jelly with Jaffa ripple ice cream
Sloe gin jelly with clotted cream ice cream
Elderflower and summer berry jelly with vanilla ice cream
Pimm’s Jelly with mint choc chip ice cream
basics
Bashed neeps
Creamed sweetcorn
Sage-roasted heritage squash with smoked bacon
Mashed potato
Roast potatoes
Thrice-cooked chips
Scrumpy-battered onion rings
Boxty pancakes
Savoury pancakes
Whipped peas
Pickled red cabbage (the traditional accompaniment for Lancashire hotpot)
Yorkshire puddings
Suet pastry
Preserved lemons
Bramley apple sauce
Bread sauce
Mum’s mint relish
Mayonnaise
Tartare sauce
Horseradish cream
Lemon and rapeseed oil dressing
Vinaigrette
Blood orange, honey and mustard dressing
Rowan berry jelly
Gravy
Gravy for roast beef
Gravy for roast chicken
Gravy for game
Gravy for roast lamb
Gravy for roast pork
Beef or veal stock
Chicken stock
Lamb stock
Fish stock
cocktails and wine
Spring flavours
Summer flavours
Autumn flavours
Winter flavours
Unusual
Thank you
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