Sam Bilton

We all know that Seville oranges make fabulous marmalade but how about using them in a tart? This dessert takes its inspiration from the...

What is the essence of the book? As a nation it is doubtful that many of us Brits pay much heed to the origins of our beloved dishes such...

According to Elisabeth Luard in her European Festival Cooking, lentils are traditionally eaten at midnight on New Years Eve or on New...

If you follow me on Instagram you may have seen ‘Gingey’ (the gingerbread man featured on the cover of my book) on the run at various...

Gingerbread is synonymous with Christmas. From houses and lattes to lebkuchen and gingerbread Santas there is likely to be some sort of...

Inspired by a recipe from Bartolomeo Scappi’s Opera (1577) Like many recipes of this period the original (which you can see below)...

As a child I was mildly fascinated with flowers. Well, OK, I was totally obsessed. Whether it was nodding bluebells in the woods or the...

What is the essence of the book? Victory In The Kitchen charts the life of Georgina Landemare (1882-1978) who spent much of her life...

We had another bumper crop of red currants this year but what are you to do with them? Jelly is all well and good but I still have some...

Some of the happiest years of my childhood were spent in the small Aberdeenshire town of Ellon. When my parents decided to move back...

We don’t tend to think of pairing spices with strawberries but these sweet red fruits take to the warmth of spices surprisingly well....

Celery is generally a much overlooked vegetable. In recent times celery enjoyed a brief dalliance in the spotlight as a health food,...

As Stir Up Sunday approaches (this year it falls on 24th November) I thought I would share Great Aunt Eliza’s recipe for plum pudding...

‘Sturdy’ is not a terribly complimentary adjective when applied to a person’s figure or a cake. It implies something quite solid. But...

Before the barbecue aficionados come thumping on my door armed with their forks and tongs, I would like to point out that the ‘barbecue’...

Society florist and latterly kitchen doyenne Constance Spry made no apologies for including French terms and titles in The Constance Spry...

‘Fortunes are made in the City of London out of sandwiches, yet to the average household a sandwich is merely two slices of bread and...

Do gardens, or more specifically, veggie patches have a special power that allows them to sense when you are on holiday? The minute their...

When is a cake a biscuit? This question was raised in 1991 regarding the humble Jaffa Cake. The manufacturer McVities argued that Jaffa...

This post has been more difficult to write than I imagined. The past few days I have been restless, wanting to write, and knowing that it...