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Raisin and cherry stollen
This traditional sweet German Christmas bread is much simpler to make than it looks, so please don't be alarmed by the length of the...
Prep 3hrs Cook 25mins
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Raspberry + strawberry Eton mess
This delicious pudding is now a British classic. It's really just a fool sweetened with broken meringue instead of sugar - but that extra...
Prep 10mins Cook 2hrs
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River Cottage shortbread
This is quite different from a traditional thick Scottish shortbread. Rather than rubbing butter into flour then adding sugar in the usual...
Prep 15mins Cook 10mins
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Rose and pistachio cake
A few teaspoonfuls of rosewater, a handful of pistachios and a scattering of rose petals elevate this simple cream filled sponge to...
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Rosehip babas with blackberries
Rum babas were popular in the 1970s but have now fallen out of favour; perhaps it is the fabulous number of calories they provide. If, like...
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Rough Puff Pastry
Great for tarts, pies, cheese straws, sausage rolls and so much more!
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Scent from heaven cake (lemon verbena)
Pam's garden is crowded with herbs and in early summer, when they are abundant and most fragrant, she instils their uplifting essence into...
Prep 30mins Cook 50mins
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Shortbread
Originally Pam thought that this would be a short recipe. However, the more she bakes this member of the biscuit clan, the more she...
Prep 20mins Cook 30mins
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Simnel cakelets
These little Easter cakes are inspired by Kerri Spong, an outstanding cake-maker from Axminster who supplies the River Cottage Kitchen with...
Prep 30mins Cook 25mins
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Simple white loaf
Notebooks at the ready for Baking 101, with this simple white loaf recipe. Once you've mastered basic bread, you'll be a fully proven baker.
Prep 2hrs Cook 40mins
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Smoked pollack and spinach tart
This is one of the best savoury tarts we know, and a firm favourite with Tim Maddams. The balance of the lightly salty, slightly smoky...
Prep 45mins Cook 40mins
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Soda bread with rosemary and sultanas
Soda bread is quick, easy and just as delicious as freshly baked yeasted bread. You can doctor your homemade soda breads with various...
Prep 15mins Cook 45mins
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Spinach and onion puff tart
This is lovely on its own as a light meal, but it's also good alongside pulses, such as simply cooked red lentils or even baked...
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Spinach and thyme pasties
These tasty little parcels are very good still warm from the oven, but let them cool down and they'll pack a real punch for a picnic, a...
Prep 20mins Cook 40mins
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Ten-minute chocolate chip cookies
These chewy, vanilla-rich treats are easy-peasy, taking no more than 10 minutes to make, and 10 to bake. Ideal when people turn up...
Prep 10mins Cook 10mins
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Tom's Cheese Straws
If you have a spare block of rough puff pastry and need an idea of what to do with it, cheese straws are great crowd pleasing savoury...
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Ultra choc brownies
These wheat and dairy-free treats are densely fudgy and very, very chocolatey. In fact around one-third of their body weight is good dark...
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Veg patch gnome cakes
These fab (and fatless) relatives of the fairy cake are a brilliant way to use up surplus produce from the veg patch. They are also perfect...
Prep 30mins Cook 20mins
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Vegan Chocolate Tart with Pear
This delicious tart features on our River Cottage Kitchens Winter menu.
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Victoria Sandwich
If you only ever make one cake, let it be the glorious Victoria sandwich. The simple mix of equal quantities of eggs, butter, sugar and...
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Apple, stout and cheese soda bread
Take soda bread for a spin with this fruity, feisty recipe. This apple, stout and cheese soda bread makes a delicious dunker for soup, but...
Prep 15mins Cook 40mins
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Appley Chelsea buns
This is my take on the classic Chelsea bun, which is a perfect vehicle for the irresistible combination of apples, dried fruit, nuts and...
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Barbecued Flatbreads
Enjoy the extra depth of flavour barbecuing brings to these simple flatbreads.
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Beetroot pizza
We like this smoky-sweet pizza with a slick of tomato sauce on the base. A good bought tomato sauce or even a tablespoon or two of good...
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Blackberry and apple pie
Apple pie is good, but a couple of handfuls of blackberries make it amazing. Wild berries create less juice so you can add more of them...
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Carrot and walnut cake
Fragrant with spices and deliciously moist, this cake is about as far away from the dry and dreary 1970s health-food shop incarnations as...
Prep 10mins Cook 1hrs20mins
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Chestnut and Chocolate Cake
"This is one of my family’s favourite chocolate ‘pudding’ cakes, and I make it at least once every Christmas (and not infrequently for...
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Chicken and leek pasties
Inspired by the great original, the Cornish pasty, these are all filling, portable meals, neatly wrapped in their own edible packaging. If...
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Chocolate nut butter
Ready-made chocolate nut spreads tend to contain a lot of refined sugar, as well as palm oil and dairy products – and often far fewer nuts...
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Chocolate pear cake
This is a chocolatey variation on the classic River Cottage apple and almond cake. And, since pears and chocolate go so well together, we...
Prep 20mins Cook 45mins
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