Valentine Fruit Loaf
Fragrant Hemp Seed & Cherry Slice
This wonderfully #hygge combo of roasted hemp seeds, mint, lavender and rose petals, serve not only as a relaxing enjoyable infusion but also adding extra nuances to your favourite sponge.
Oatcakes
Lemon butterfly cakes
Farmhouse Cheese Soufflé
Pepparkakor – Gingerbread biscuits
In olden days these were always cut into shapes of the farmer, his wife and his piglets. Heart-shaped ones make beautiful window decorations and the same recipe can be used to make gingerbread houses, beautifully decorated with royal icing.
Cheese & Chard Roulade
Sticky Toffee Pudding with Whisky Sauce
Orkney Boreray Mutton Meatballs & Colcannon
Orkney Boreray Mutton Leg Roast with Bere Puddings
Simnel Cake
Seafood Gratin
We are blessed with fabulous seafood, so whether haddock, fresh or smoked, fishmonger’s fish pie mix or luxury scallops for a special occasion – all are equally delicious. Vegetable gratins also work beautifully with courgettes, cauliflower or even Brussels sprouts! If using vegetables, steam before placing in the ovenware dish instead of poaching in milk.
I know of no commercial crumbs that get our vote! Breadcrumbs are easy to make in a mortar and pestle and you can simultaneously rid yourself of the frustrations in life! It takes a matter of moments and the difference in flavour is outstanding. Store in an airtight jar for months and use as required.
Turnip & Kohlrabi Fondants
Brochettes of Highland Beef with Caramelized Onions & Benromach
Pasture-fed ruminants, whether grazing grass or hefted on moors, bring many benefits and the marbling present is a healthy nourishing fat giving marvellous flavours to the meat. Such animals could not be more different from grain fed beasts on densely populated feedlots. Industrialised farming methods are linked with lower welfare standards, felling of rain forests for grain production and GM soy feed. Scottish pasture-fed cattle could not be more different.
Orkney Bere Bannocks
Beremeal flour is available from Barony Mill by mail order or check out the link for stockists
Shetland Air Dried Salt Cod Bake
Salted fish has been part of our food heritage for over a thousand years and this recipe reflects the traditions of the northern isles. The Shetland Black potatoes can be sourced, along with a range of heritage varieties, from Andrew Skea at The Potato House, Auchterhouse.
Stekt Sill – Fried Herring
Oven Baked Trout Fillets with Wild Pesto Crust
Brodies Tealoaf
Perfect on its own, as part of a nutritious packed lunch or with a wedge of creamy blue cheese. Like most baking it freezes well so I double this recipe, make slabs in large Swiss roll tins and cut in fingers. You can bake in a loaf tin if you prefer but cook for longer.
Smoked Trout & Dill Pie
Glazed Partridge on Barley Risotto
Roast game bird with parsnip sauce and trimmings & apple butter
Classic Shortbread
Svampsoppa (Mushroom Soup)
Potted Cheese
Janet Henderson’s Vegetarian Haggis
Uradale Shepherd’s Pie
Christmas Mince Pies
300 years ago, a mince pie would have been a huge dish called “Christmas pye” composed of “ox tongue, chicken, eggs, sugar, raisins, lemon and orange peel, and spices.” Over the years, the pies grew smaller and the meat content reduced, until they became a sweet mixture of suet, spices and dried fruit that had been steeped in brandy. This filling was put into little pastry cases that were covered with pastry lids and then baked in an oven – today’s mince pie. It is said that when the mixture is stirred clockwise, you can make a wish for the coming year.