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« Local recipes to share and enjoy. The first from Judith Bowden is absolutely delicious and all ingredients are available in the village. Below: Helen Peacocke's pumpkin bread, Pat Whitlock's party cakes, Jennifer Harland's Oxford John, Sue Butler Miles's Barnard Gate-grown Pink Fir potatoes, Sandy Hellig's oven roasted winter vegetables and a clever variation on Osso Bucco, 3 recipes for vegetarians; and Eynsham Dumplings - a tribute to FW Wastie. Click on any image to enlarge.
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Email YOUR recipe for the Eynsham food pages! Helen says: “I am quite happy to do the foodie photographs ... People can either bring the dish to my cottage, or phone me on 01865 882130 and I'll sort the photo for them.”
EYNSHAM MARMALADE CAKE
You will need:
4oz butter or margarine
4oz sugar
2 eggs, beaten
3oz Eynsham honey
4oz marmalade (try different flavours from the Country Market)
10z SR flour
2oz sultanas
Full, print- friendly recipe HERE
HELEN PEACOCKE'S PUMPKIN BREAD
If you are faced with a large pumpkin and have no idea how to use up the flesh before it begins to deteriorate - think BREAD.
Weigh out two-thirds of the flour for your favourite bread recipe and make up the remainder with cool, mashed pumpkin flesh.
Add water with CAUTION or the dough will become too sticky - but that's all you have to worry about.
You will achieve an amazingly moist loaf which tastes great and lasts for several days.
Full, print- friendly recipe HERE
PAT WHITLOCK'S PARTY CAKES
Freshly home made scones, with large dollops of double cream and homemade blackcurrant jam
Gooey carrot cake with magical frosting
Large dark chocolate cake, with layers of cream and cherries
Soft spongy orange cake with layers of cream and oranges
Lemon drizzle, sweet, sticky and zesty
White fluffy meringues, with lashings of strawberries and raspberries
Viennese fingers with butter cream and chocolate ends
Rich fruit cake with loads of spice
Freshly made chocolate éclairs
Fruity tea breads smothered with butter
Cream slices like you've never tasted before
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JENNIFER HARLAND'S OXFORD JOHN
An Oxford John is a cut of lamb, taken from the leg, simply as a steak or thick slice with the eye of bone left in the centre: an old favourite in the Oxford colleges. It is an expensive cut but this recipe retains every scrap of goodness and is ready in an hour from start to finish. Equally, it will wait in a very low oven for 2- 3 hours; in fact, it is enhanced by a long, slow cook. You can make this dish work for you, not you for it!
Ingredients for 4 people:
- 4 slices of leg of lamb with bone 'eye' left in
- 1 tablespoon pearl barley soaked in a cup of boiling water
- oil
- 1 large onion, peeled and chopped
- 1 dessertspoon flour
- 2
carrots, peeled and chopped
- 2 tomatoes, chopped
- 1 small piece red pepper, chopped
- dessertspoonful of capers plus vinegar from caper jar
- freshly chopped parsley
Full, print- friendly recipe HERE
SUE BUTLER MILES'S PINK FIR POTATOES
In some circles Pink Fir Potatoes are regarded as designer potatoes but they grow particularly well in our local soil and are on sale in Eynsham Country Market from August to early October. If you long for the almost forgotton taste of a true new potato you will not be disappointed with Pink Fir. They look a bit like Jerusalem artichokes but more knobbly and bobbly which makes them a hit with children as well as adults.
Any leftovers can be sliced and sauteed in oil or served cold as a potato salad with mayonnaise and chopped onion.
Full, print- friendly recipe HERE
Web: EynshamCountryMarket
SANDY HELLIG'S OVEN ROASTED WINTER VEGETABLES
Sandy runs our specialist deli Cornucopia. This is one of many dishes she cooks up daily for people to take away; it can be served with a main course or eaten alone.
The recipe calls for locally grown, seasonal vegetables such as butternut squash and onions. You can add other root vegetables such as sweet potato, parsnips or turnips if you wish. In fact the more variety the better the taste!
Full, print- friendly recipe HERE
Web: Cornucopia
BEEF SHIN OSSO BUCO STYLE
One of 3 new recipes from Cornucopia using shin of beef, a cut which has a delicious flavour and is sadly not used much these days. Richard, Martin and Paul (Golsby Butchers, Eynsham) will happily prepare the cut for this recipe
For 4 healthy eaters you will need:
4 slices of shin, bone in
Plain flour to dust seasoned with salt and pepper
50 g butter
1 tbs olive or rape seed oil
2 cloves garlic, chopped finely
16 shallots or 2 onions cut into large dice
2 carrots diced into 2cm cubes
2 sticks celery cut into 2cm pieces
1 glass red wine
1 tablespoon tomato puree
Good sprig of thyme and 2 bayleaves
Salt and pepper
Zest of 1
lemon
2 tbs chopped parsley
Full, print- friendly recipe HERE
SANDY'S SPINACH, RICOTTA & PINE NUT TORTILLA
Serves 4 for a main course or 6 – 8 for a light lunch. Serve with a mixed salad or some seasonal veg.
-25g butter
-350g diced cooked potato
-400g ricotta cheese
-400g cooked spinach
- 2 dessert spoon pine-nuts
-6 eggs made up to 550ml with either double cream or milk
-seasoning of salt, pepper, nutmeg and thyme
Full, print- friendly recipe HERE
HELEN PEACOCKE'S STUFFED BAKED TOMATOES
To serve four. You will need:
-8 medium ripe tomatoes
-One clove garlic — chopped fine
- 2oz (50g) basmati rice
-One tspn currants
- 4oz (125g) feta cheese — crumbled or grated
-Grated rind of one lemon
-Small bunch mixed herbs — chopped fine
- Olive oil to fry onions and garlic
-Salt and freshly ground black peppercorns to season
Serve straight from the oven with crisp green salad. For a vegan version of this recipe omit the cheese.
Full, print- friendly recipe HERE
HELEN PEACOCKE'S CRINKLY LUNCHBOX PIZZA
Good hot or cold; an ideal extra for the lunch box and something the children can help you make. They can help you eat them too!
for the basic dough
8oz (250g) strong white bread flour
Pinch caster sugar
Half tspn salt
Half tspn fast-action dried yeast
One tbspn olive oil
Quarter pt (150ml) warm water (approx)
for the filling
Half a red pepper
Four mushrooms
Two small tomatoes
Two shallots or one small onion
Fresh herbs to include oregano,
One clove garlic
Approx 2
oz (50g) grated cheese
Salt and freshly ground black peppercorns to season
Full, print- friendly recipe HERE
HELEN PEACOCKE'S EYNSHAM DUMPLINGS
Did you know that in the 1930’s FW Wastie propagated several apples that carry the village name, one of which is the Eynsham Dumpling?
It’s a firm fleshed cooking apple which puffs up nicely when cooked it can be used to make all the classic apple dishes.
However when an apple is named thus, how could I resist trying to come up with a steamed dumpling that could be served as a pudding.
To make enough for a family lunch you will need:
* 8oz (225g) SR flour
* 4oz (125g) shredded suet
* 2 large Eynsham Dumplings or Bramley apples
* 2oz (50g) caster sugar
* One bottle apple juice
* Pinch cinnamon
* Pinch salt
Full, print- friendly recipe HERE
More about Wastie and his apples HERE
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