Cookbook

My Great Great Grandpa's Cookbook: Un piatto di frittura recipe

As the sunshine and long warm evenings make a reappearance after what feels like a thousand days of rain, my thoughts are turning to having friends over in the garden, drinks under the oak tree, al...

My Great Great Grandpa's Cookbook: A Pasta Pudding

To find an entire chapter dedicated to pasta in my Great Great Grandpa’s cook book from 1873 was a brilliant surprise.

My Great Great Grandpa's Cookbook: Rhubarb Tart

Victor’s feelings on puddings in general he sums up quite wonderfully - they are to 'convey the greatest amount of pleasure to the taste with the least possible nourishment’.

My Great Great Grandpa's Cookbook: Parmesan Soufflé

For this month’s recipe I decided to have a go at the ‘Petits Soufflés au Parmesan’, because when else am I going to attempt to master soufflés if not during a national lockdown?

My Great Great Grandpa's Cookbook: Oeufs à la Neige

Served during October, Victor suggests, after a meal of Brill cooked in Madeira, lamb chops and a Russian salad (there are menus for each week of the year at the back of the book).

Rhubarb Jam

One of our first houseguests after lockdown eased was our friend Sophie, who arrived with a carrier bag bursting full of rhubarb.

A four ingredient cake, for lockdown

The four ingredient cake - and one of them is a cup of tea. A very handy recipe for these times.

The importance of cake

Cakes are wonderful. They are celebrations. Even if it’s only a Thursday afternoon at Granny Brown’s house, a freshly baked cake hot from the oven really takes a cup of tea to another level.

Each Peach Pear Damson

I first made Damson Jam the evening Obama was elected president. It was Autumn 2008, I’d just finished university and had started a job in a gallery in London, living back at home to save up to mov...