Recipes
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Recipe list
15 recipes
Recipe · 30 min
Classic British Scones
Tall, light scones for afternoon tea or a cream tea, ready in about 30 minutes.
Recipe · 40 min
Colcannon
Buttery mashed potato folded with kale or cabbage and spring onions, served with a well of melting butter.
Recipe · 2 hr 45 min
Cornish Pasty
Beef skirt, potato, swede and onion, baked raw inside a crimped pastry case: the traditional way.
Recipe · 25 min
Cranachan
Toasted oats, whisky-and-honey cream and fresh raspberries: the Scottish summer pudding that ends a Burns supper.
Recipe · 1 hr 25 min
Crispy Roast Potatoes
Fluffy inside and shatteringly crisp outside: the essential Sunday roast side.
Recipe · 30 min
Cucumber Sandwiches
The essential afternoon tea sandwich: thin, crisp and never soggy.
Recipe · 50 min
Irish Soda Bread
A yeast-free loaf raised with bicarbonate of soda and buttermilk: mixed, shaped and baked in under an hour.
Recipe · 1 hr 30 min
Lemon Drizzle Cake
A soft lemon loaf soaked with a crunchy sugar-and-lemon drizzle while still warm.
Recipe · 55 min
Potato Bread (Potato Farls)
Soft, thin griddle bread made from mashed potato and a little flour, cut into farls and fried for the Ulster fry.
Recipe · 1 hr 5 min
Scottish Shortbread
Three ingredients, one ratio: pale, crumbly, buttery shortbread.
Recipe · 4 hr 30 min
Traditional Christmas Cake
A rich, dark fruit cake baked weeks ahead and fed with brandy until Christmas.
Recipe · 1 hr 15 min
Victoria Sponge
The classic two-layer sponge with jam and buttercream, named after Queen Victoria.
Recipe · 40 min
Welsh Cakes
Currant-studded griddle cakes, cooked on a bakestone and dusted with sugar.
Recipe · 20 min
Welsh Rarebit
A savoury sauce of cheese, ale and mustard, spread on toast and grilled until bubbling and golden.
Recipe · 1 hr 5 min
Yorkshire Puddings
Tall, crisp Yorkshires: a simple batter, very hot fat, and an oven door kept shut.