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Recipes

We both enjoy cooking, and are frequently accused of speaking of little else! Here are a few of our favourite recipes. Some of them we have made up, the others we have tried to attribute, but sometimes we can't remember where they came from. If you see a recipe of yours up here, please contact us and we'll add your name to it.

Mains

Black-eyed beans with sweetcorn
Curried chickpeas with apricots
Goat stew
Mussaman chickpea curry
Split pea and spinach stew

Deserts and sweets

Butterscotch pudding
Gulab Jamun
Nanaimo bars
Rhubarb icecream
Shortbread
Lavender biscuits
Macaroons
Chocolate fudge
Easter Eggs
Marshmallow

Beverages

Bubble tea
Cuppa soups
Hot chocolate mix bases
Lemon cordial

Other

Candied citrus peel
Mock capers
Milk masala
Chaat masala
Baharat
Mexican coating mixture
Lavender jelly
No-knead bread

Not for eating

Candle Wick
Bath tea
Lip balm

We also highly recommend the following cookbooks:

Alison Holst's Meals Without Meat and Meals Without Red Meat
the Edmond's Cookbook
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