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alisdair brooke-taylor
Oct 28, 20244 min read
Pickled green almonds
Unripe or green almonds are one of those earliest ingredients after the winter where anything green and fresh seems exotic and delicious....
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alisdair brooke-taylor
Oct 24, 20246 min read
cultured yoghurt
Every reference to gut microbiome health mentions yoghurt and cultured dairy as an important part of a balanced diet, which it definitely...
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alisdair brooke-taylor
Oct 15, 20245 min read
Kumquat Achar
Kumquat Achar Hot and sour condiment This recipe came about from receiving a glut of round kumquats and having not finished the last two...
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alisdair brooke-taylor
Oct 7, 20245 min read
raw jam and melon drizzle cake
Melon and rose teacake This uncooked rose and wild strawberry conserve is an old trick from the moorcock inn. We had plenty of wild...
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alisdair brooke-taylor
Oct 3, 20242 min read
Clementine Kosho
Clementine/Mandarin kosho. This is a bastardised recipe adapted from the Japanese condiment yuzu kosho, while it doesn’t really represent...
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alisdair brooke-taylor
Oct 2, 20243 min read
laverbread, yorkshire tsukudani, umami jam
Laverbread This is one of my favourite condiments in my recipe book. Its based on a Japanese preserve called tsukudani, which comes from...
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alisdair brooke-taylor
Sep 23, 20242 min read
Jamu - Ginger, Turmeric and Lemon Tonic
Jamu is a health tonic which is comes from Indonesia, its popular among the health crowd for its antioxidant and inflammatory benefits....
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alisdair brooke-taylor
Sep 19, 20244 min read
raw cream cultured salted butter
At the Moorcock we made butter every week. with the exception of Jerusalem artichokes we used our own cultured butter for all our...
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alisdair brooke-taylor
Sep 18, 20244 min read
Lemon curd
Lemon curd Like most people I always associated lemon curd with England, it is a quintessentially British conserve. Unfortunately while...
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alisdair brooke-taylor
Sep 17, 20247 min read
really crispy buttermilk fried chicken
Every country makes fried chicken, and they all do it a little differently, They are all delicious. The major differences are marinades,...
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alisdair brooke-taylor
Sep 17, 20246 min read
whipped ice cream
Whipped ice cream The easiest ice cream recipe I know. So easy and so adaptable. It requires no machines, I recommend a stand mixer for...
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alisdair brooke-taylor
Aug 17, 20243 min read
Cooked hams and corned meat
Cooked hams and corned meat There are many ways to cure meat, I find the best way to cure meat you are going to cook afterward is in a...
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alisdair brooke-taylor
Aug 17, 20243 min read
Mustard, the ultimate pantry staple
Mustard Home made mustard is a bit of a passion project as it is available everywhere, not especially expensive, its pretty good and for...
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alisdair brooke-taylor
Mar 16, 20246 min read
Dashi and the gusto and unbearable lightness of umami,
To most people who will read this you will have heard of Dashi and associate it with instant Japanese cuppa soup. You are not wrong, but...
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alisdair brooke-taylor
Mar 7, 20243 min read
stuffed jalapeño poppers, cream cheese and preserved lemon.
As your pantry begins to fill with preserves and home made items, it will becomes clear that the quality of the ingredients you are...
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alisdair brooke-taylor
Feb 29, 20245 min read
Savoury plum sauce, like a Hoi sin and a note on low risk canning
If you have a plum tree near you this is a good example of what to do with the glut, its exciting followed by a huge mess, the plums are...
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alisdair brooke-taylor
Feb 27, 20242 min read
Yeast mayo, its vegan by accident
Another workhorse recipe for the Moorcock Inn, this started as a warm sauce to serve with wild mushrooms, tweaked a little to became...
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alisdair brooke-taylor
Feb 24, 20245 min read
The Crispy Smoked Potatoes
The longest running dish on the moorcock menu, crispy smoked potatoes. The most requested recipe for the blog. We received poems even an...
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alisdair brooke-taylor
Feb 15, 20242 min read
baked pancake, hot liqueur sponge or a variation on clafoutis
this recipe comes as an adaptation of a clafoutis recipe, I once worked with a dyslexic pastry chef who one day mixed up the numbers on...
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alisdair brooke-taylor
Feb 10, 20244 min read
salt pickling aka lacto fermenting
Salt pickling vegetables. For those of you unfamiliar with fermented vegetables it seems like a daunting path. Filled with risks and bad...
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