Cake Without Egg
Honey And Spice Cake This handy egg-less cake, slightly adapted from the useful and tasty The Art of the Larder by Claire Thomson, can be made from what’s in the cupboard and has a texture like the sticky Mr Kipling’s…
Cupboard Comfort
Apple, sumac and spelt cake By Pasha Milburn If you find yourself having to spend time alone in the coming weeks, making cake is a delicious way to pass the time. Try your hand at this easy apple, sumac and…
CUPBOARD QUICKY
Blender Soup This simple soup is slightly adapted from Cook Fast, Eat Well by Sue Quinn. Sue is sharing cupboard recipes on Instagram • 1 tin beans (eg kidney or black), drained• 1 tin chopped tomatoes• 1 tsp vegetable stock…
Cupboard Staple
Mujaddara By Hattie Ellis Grains and pulses are more nutritious and delicious when combined. Mujaddara is a Middle East mixture of bulgur wheat and lentils that is adaptable to other grains such as rice. The mixture is jazzed up at…
QUICK FISH: Smoked Haddock with Potted Shrimps
Paul Saxby at Arcade Fisheries (Queens Arcade, Hastings, and markets) sells excellent potted shrimps. This is a traditional way of preserving tasty little brown shrimps in clarified butter, lightly flavoured with spices such as mace and cayenne and in this…
The Royal, St Leonards
By Hattie Ellis The best dining pubs are like your most-loved friends: deeply familiar but never stale, and the times you spend together accumulate like gold in the soul bank. My favourite was Great Queen Street in Covent Garden,…
SEASONAL BAKE: Rhubarb Cake
By Pasha Milburn You may have recently spied the sherbet pink stems of forced rhubarb in your local supermarket or veg shop. Following a method that hails from Yorkshire in the 1870s, forced rhubarb (having first been grown outside for…
Sourdough’s Rising Star
Talking Making and Baking business with Maker and Baker By Pasha Milburn 22nd February to the 1st March marks The Real Bread Campaign’s ‘Real Bread Week’, an annual celebration that draws attention to the additive-free loaves made by independent bakeries…
Queens Deli Delights
By Hattie Ellis At the cold and wet fag-end of winter, what greater joy than to find a plate of comfort food? Step up, Queens Deli, and its plates of proper corned beef hash. Home-cured beef is stirred together with…
Rye Bay Scallop Week
For the 18th year, local scallops are being celebrated with meals, demos, music and poetry in venues around Rye. From restaurant ceviche to scallops-and-chips, this is the time to discover how to enjoy this seasonal ; Hastings chef Paul Webbe…