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Recipe: Minestrone soup
Ingredients: 1 tbsp olive oil 1 brown onion 2 sticks of celery 1 clove of garlic 1 medium carrot 1 medium courgette 400g tin of tomatoes Vegetable stock cube 1tsp mixed herbs 400g tin of cannellini beans 200g uncooked ditalini, orzo or any small pasta Salt Black pepper Method: Heat your oil in a large…
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Recipe: Honey cake
If you visited the Birmingham Honey Show, your taste buds may well have been inspired by the honey cakes lovingly baked by competitors. Have a go at baking one yourself at home using Birmingham and District Beekeepers’ simple recipe. Make sure to use locally sourced honey to celebrate the deliciously sweet flavours of the region.…
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Recipe: Lemon and elderflower drizzle cake
Clutch onto the floral and citrus flavours of summer with this luscious lemon and elderflower drizzle cake. This recipe is a firm favourite of our Communications and Events Supervisor Jenny, who cooked it regularly with her grandma growing up. Ingredients: For the cake: 113g caster sugar 113g butter 2 medium eggs 113g self-raising flour 1tsp…
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Recipe: Chilled tomato and apple soup
As the tomatoes are ripening around the Walled Garden, we’ve been searching for a delicious recipe you can try at home with your own harvest. This chilled tomato and apple soup celebrates the wonderfully sweet flavour of freshly ripened, homegrown tomatoes. Ingredients: Method:
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Recipe: Tennis Cake
Did you enjoy Wimbledon? We’ve taken the inspiration for this month’s recipe from this longstanding British sporting tournament, with an aptly named ‘Tennis cake’. First appearing in Mrs Beeton’s 1906 Book of Household Management our version is slightly simplified and uses glacé cherries rather than raisins and candied peel, for a bit of a summer…