Notes about Recipes in this book

• Baked beans with chorizo

  • Nichill on December 10, 2022

    Surprisingly successful. Nice and quick. The butter addition makes a lots of difference to the texture. Will repeat, regularly.

  • Pamsy on January 12, 2023

    This was the recipe that swayed me to buy this book! Mr P really enjoys baked beans and although I was sceptical at first, we both loved this. Don't think we'd have it for breakfast, more an easy supper dish.

• Afternoon tea sandwiches: Coronation chicken

  • rhughes24 on December 29, 2021

    This is in my regular rotation. A great way to spruce up chicken salad. I like it on good quality multigrain bread.

• Royal Blend tea loaf

  • Pamsy on November 14, 2021

    After 30 years of making the same tea loaf, this is my new recipe! Used Orange Pekoe leaves (from Fortnum's) and light brown soft sugar (no muscovado). Successfully replaced the egg with Orgran Egg Replacer (First time using this, due to egg intolerance). As we like a plain Tea Loaf I didn't make the tea syrup, nor did I glaze it and it was perfect.

• Celeriac Dauphinoise

  • Nichill on September 27, 2025

    Very simple and straightforward gratin that used up a load of old potatoes. Could go lighter on the potatoes. Used mainly crème fraîche rather than double cream, which works well because of the heating together of cream & milk. Need to have the oven higher at the start under the foil, then reduce back to recipe when removing foil.

• Petits pois à la Française

  • Pamsy on March 22, 2026

    Used smoked streaky bacon and a shallot. Great flavour but not the most attractive looking dish due to peas losing vibrancy of colour.

• Steamed marmalade pudding with vanilla custard

  • Nichill on March 15, 2026

    Very successful. I used salted butter, a 1 1/2 pint plastic basin, and started to add some flour after some of the eggs had gone in. It still didn’t seem very fluffy: not curdled, but all the “fold in” instructions seemed to relate to a different texture of mixture. It rose beautifully, had a glorious texture and flavour. Photo is after 4 people have had their helpings.