Category: British

Cornflake flap jack

Chewy, sweet and buttery, flapjacks are easy to make, traditionally made just with oats but here I’ve pimped them up with some cornflakes and raisins. Don’t be confined to cornflakes through, feel free to use crunchy nut cornflakes, rice krispies or go chocolaty and use cocoa pops.

Makes 16 squares

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5 Pea and ham soup

A quintessential British soup made using a mixture of dried British peas and smoked ham, healthy and vibrant and super easy to make using a pressure cooker.

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Mum’s Rice pudding

Traditional rice puddings have as many recipes as traditional Yorkshire puddings, everyone has their own version, for my version here I’ve replicated my mum’s which was traditionally made on a Sunday after our roast dinner, this was the only reason that the milkman delivered a bottle of sterilised milk on a Sunday, I have no idea why my mum used sterilised milk, maybe she inherited that from her mum whom I sadly never knew.
There are typically two debates over traditional rice pudding, loose and creamy or thick and stodgy and of course there is the almost burnt skin, you either love it or hate it, I used to hate it but now I absolutely embrace it.
Quantities for loose and creamy or thick and stodgy are provided..

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Liver and onions

Liver and onions was a weekly event when I was a child, my mum used ketchup, OXO cubes and Bisto gravy browning, this is as near to her recipe as I could get.
Serve with mashed potatoes and a green vegetable of your choice.

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