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Simple Lentil Curry Dish
This month, member of the team Naresh shares her recipe for a simple lentil daal. Serve with boiled rice, a green salad, and chapatis. Ingredients: 1 cupful of red split lentils1 small onion1 fresh tomato4 green chillies (add more if you like it hot)A small block of ginger3 cloves of garlic1 teaspoon of salt (you…
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Recipe: Simnel Cake
Simnel cakes as we know them have been made since medieval time. It is believed that the word ‘simnel’ developed from the Latin word ‘similia’, meaning fine wheaten flour. Simnel cakes were traditionally baked during the Lenten fast and became connected with Mothering Sunday in the seventeenth century, when girls in domestic service would return…
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Celebrate Pancake Day
February sees us celebrate what is arguably one of the best days of the year: Pancake Day! Celebrate it the 1930s way with this recipe we found in the archives from 1936. If made carefully, pancakes are particularly delicious. There is, however, no need to limit them to one variety, for they can be modified…
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Recipe: Beef and Pigeon Pie
Ingredients 2 pigeons 340 g (3/4 lb) rump steak 75 g (3 oz) ham or lean bacon 284 ml (1/2 pint) good stock 1 hard-boiled egg 1 egg yolk 500g Puff-pastry – puff-paste in Beaton-speak. Salt and pepper Method Cut each pigeon into 4 pieces Cut the beef into small thin slices, the ham into…