A berry nice start to Wimbledon 2023
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It’s that time of year to make a racket about strawberries with Wimbledon gracing our screens this week - our Wimbledon collection absolutely smashes it. As well as the ubiquitous berry, we’ll be serving up the likes of dainty Cucumber Sandwiches, Homemade Ginger Beer and jugs of fruity Summer Cup, a gin-based herbal long drink created in the 1820s by James Pimms at his oyster bar in London.
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Pictured above: Strawberries & Cream Quick Trifle Pots from Lavender & Lovage by Karen Burns-Booth
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One potato, two potato, three potato, four
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The latest addition to ckbk is Paul Gayler’s spectacular spud-focussed A Passion for Potatoes, which is in great company with other longer-standing ckbk tattie titles, Le Cordon Bleu Home Collection: Potatoes and Lucy Madden's The Potato Year.
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If you are looking for a weekend potato project, consider these Confit Potatoes from The Quality Chop House cookbook. Their signature potatoes have become the stuff of legend - the only dish that has stayed on the menu since the restaurant opened.
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Never to be considered just a chip off the old block, this recipe needs to be prepared over two days, with slicing, layering and overnight-chilling producing the most gorgeous crisp golden nugget.
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For World Chocolate Day this year (Friday 7 July), we have compiled a collection of some of our favorite chocolate books to satisfy any chocolate aficionados’ cravings. Guittard, San Francisco’s oldest continuously family-owned chocolate company has produced the wonderful Guittard Chocolate Cookbook containing recipes that have pleased five generations of chocolate-lovers, while Ewald Notter's The Art of the Chocolatier is also essential reading for the baker looking to perfect their chocolate technique.
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Also watch out for Valrhona’s Encyclopedia of Chocolate, edited by patissiere Frédéric Bau, coming to ckbk later this month. To be notified when new books are added, visit the notification settings page.
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Consuming passions: blackcurrants
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"The blackcurrant is a peculiar fruit, in that it manages to be both very childish and yet very grown-up at the same time" says Elly McCausland, author of The Botanical Kitchen in the latest instalment of our Consuming Passions series. McCausland recalls the childhood origin of her passion for blackcurrants, praising their sourness and complexity in everything from Blackcurrant Vinegar to Summer Pudding to Petra Paredez's summery Blackcurrant Pie.
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McCausland also reminds us that if you are lucky enough to have access to a blackcurrant bush, you can also make use of the leaves in your cooking. She says: “They have the glorious herbaceous tang of the fruit about them, which is particularly pronounced when crushed in your palm after the sun has warmed them on a summer afternoon.” Take a leaf out of Keith Floyd’s book with his recipe for the distinctive Blackcurrant Leaf Sorbet.
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6 of the best blueberry recipes
How will you be celebrating Blueberry Day this Saturday!? Here are six ways to paint the town blue.
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