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Dundee cake
The Dundee cake proudly bears a wreath of golden almonds, like an insignia, denoting its authority in the fruit cake world. Its origins are...
Prep 30mins
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Fennel seed bread
This well-flavoured loaf is great with cheese or salty air-dried ham. You can replace some of the fennel seeds with celery seeds for a...
Cook 30mins
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Festive fruity walnut beer bread
Recipe taken from Channel 4's River Cottage: Three Go Mad Christmas special
Prep 20mins
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Fig and Walnut Bread
This light textured tea-bread is entirely grain free and refined sugar free! Figs give a mellow, caramel sweetness to the bread that takes...
Prep 20mins Cook 20mins
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Flapjacks
Soft and chewy or crisp and crunchy, as you prefer, flapjacks are one of the all-time greats lunchtime or teatime, a good flapjack is...
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Flatbreads
We love these wonderful, soft but slightly charred, yeast-free breads (also known as soft tortillas). I could eat a whole pile of them, hot...
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Focaccia
Focaccia is excellent sharing bread for serving with supper, and is really easy to make. You can certainly miss out the rosemary, and you...
Prep 15mins Cook 20mins
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Fruit, nut and honey bars
Judging by the number of different energy bars on the market these days, we all ought to be bursting with vitality and joie de vivre. This...
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Genoese sponge cake
This is a very useful recipe to have in your repertoire. The light but firm sponge is delicious filled with fresh fruit and cream, but is...
Prep 20mins Cook 25mins
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Gill's honey cake
This well-loved recipe comes from Gill Meller, previously head chef at River Cottage, and it is frequently served to guests at River...
Prep 20mins Cook 45mins
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Gluten free apple Christmas cake
This Christmas cake is delightful and has the added advantage of being totally gluten free. It's a very light cake that should be eaten...
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Hazelnut chocolate cake
Here’s another treat to serve straight up at teatime or in a more indulgent and pudlike manner. If you can’t find ready-ground hazelnuts...
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Hedgelog (Yule log)
This cake is a nod to the pagan ritual of burning a Yule log at the winter solstice, a ceremony intended to drive away the short dark days...
Prep 30mins Cook 20mins
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Honey and peanut butter booster bars
These jam-packed near relatives of the flapjack are Hugh's antidote to the devil's work - those big-brand 'energy' bars that fester among...
Prep 20mins Cook 30mins
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Hot cross buns
Freshly baked or toasted, I love these buns and bake a batch whenever it takes my fancy, leaving off the crosses if it isn't Easter. I also...
Prep 30mins Cook 20mins
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Hugh's fresh cherry cake with streusel topping
Available for only a few weeks of the year, delicious homegrown cherries are highly seasonal. What's more, these summer gems are as coveted...
Prep 30mins Cook 50mins
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Jack's spring pizza
River Cottage Rising Star, Jack Botha, took time out from our apprenticeship scheme to make his Food Tube debut. Here he ushers in spring...
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Jammy Dodgers
Jammy Dodgers are a biscuit tin favourite in many households, with their sticky sweet centre and crumbly outside. These homemade homages to...
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Kale, onions and chestnuts
Coming up with unusual pizza toppings has become a bit of an obsession for Hugh – this is a current favourite. It’s not worth making the...
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Lemon curd marble muffins
These are indulgent and delicious, but also very quick and easy to make. We sometimes replace 100g of the flour with 125g ground almonds...
Prep 15mins Cook 30mins
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Lemon sponge pudding
This is a simple, warming pudding for cold days. We love the way the lemon and sugar mixture forms a sweet but tangy goo at the bottom...
Prep 20mins Cook 2hrs
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Lemon tart
Tarte au citron is another one of those classic puds for which countless different recipes exist. Many begin by making a lemon curd for the...
Prep 1hrs Cook 30mins
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Linseed and rosemary crackers
Linseeds, also called flaxseed, are a rich source of omega-3 oils, as well as providing protein, fibre and iron. These crisp...
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Little orange soufflés
Although savoury soufflés are more common, Mark prefers their sweet sisters. These lovely orange soufflés have a dark golden, slightly...
Prep 15mins Cook 8mins
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Mulberry fumble
We do like a fumble. It's nothing more than a fruit fool topped with a separately made crumble an idea Hugh came up with a few years back...
Prep 15mins Cook 25mins
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Nettles, cheese, puff pastry
We love nettles – they are one of the first wild greens available in the spring, easy to find, bursting with goodness and absolutely...
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Oaty Nutty Chocolate 'Tiffin'
A virtuous way to enjoy chocolate (or a chocolate-y way to enjoy virtue).
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Oaty, nutty, fruity cookies
We can't think of a nicer way to refuel mid-morning or teatime than with one (or two) of these. In texture they're somewhere between a...
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Pear poached in Perry, frozen yoghurt and oat biscuit
All the different elements of this dessert can be prepared in advance making the final assembly really easy.
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Puff pastry, cream, chocolate
This is ridiculously easy, yet comes out looking pretty elegant. The only vaguely tricky bit is splitting the pastry into two – and that...
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