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British Cotswold Recipes

Six beloved dishes from the British countryside — each cooked with butter, dripping, and the comfort of a proper country kitchen.

Sunday Roast Beef with Yorkshires

Sunday Roast Beef with Yorkshires

⏱ 1 hr 45 min🍽 6 servings🔥 Medium

A pink rib of beef roasted in beef dripping, served with sky-high Yorkshire puddings and proper red wine gravy.

Ingredients

  • 2 kg standing rib of beef
  • 3 tbsp beef dripping
  • Coarse salt and black pepper
  • 4 sprigs thyme
  • 2 large onions, halved
  • 4 cloves garlic, smashed
  • 300 ml beef stock
  • 250 ml dry red wine
  • 2 tbsp unsalted butter
  • For Yorkshires: 150 g flour, 3 eggs, 250 ml whole milk, 60 g beef dripping

Instructions

  1. Rub the beef with dripping, salt, pepper, and thyme. Rest at room temperature 1 hour.
  2. Place on onions and garlic in a tin. Roast at 240°C (465°F) for 20 minutes, then 180°C (350°F) for 50 minutes for medium-rare. Rest 25 minutes.
  3. For Yorkshires: whisk flour, eggs, milk, and salt to a smooth batter; rest 30 minutes.
  4. Heat dripping in a muffin tin at 230°C (450°F) until smoking. Pour in batter and bake 22 minutes until towering and crisp.
  5. For gravy: deglaze the meat tin with wine, scraping the brown bits; reduce by half.
  6. Add stock, simmer 6 minutes, whisk in butter, and strain. Carve the beef and serve with everything piping hot.
Cornish Fish Pie

Cornish Fish Pie

⏱ 1 hr 15 min🍽 6 servings🔥 Medium

Smoked haddock, salmon, and prawns in a buttery cheddar-cream sauce under a snowy mash crown.

Ingredients

  • 300 g undyed smoked haddock
  • 300 g salmon fillet
  • 200 g cooked prawns
  • 600 ml whole milk
  • 2 bay leaves
  • 100 g unsalted butter
  • 60 g flour
  • 100 g mature cheddar, grated
  • 2 tbsp wholegrain mustard
  • Large handful parsley, chopped
  • 2 hard-boiled eggs, quartered
  • 1.2 kg Maris Piper potatoes
  • 150 ml double cream
  • Sea salt and pepper

Instructions

  1. Poach haddock and salmon in milk with bay leaves until just cooked, 6 minutes. Strain, reserving milk.
  2. Boil potatoes until tender; mash with 60 g butter, cream, salt, and pepper.
  3. Melt remaining butter; whisk in flour, then strained milk to make a sauce. Simmer 5 minutes.
  4. Off heat stir in cheese, mustard, parsley, and seasoning.
  5. Flake the fish into a deep pie dish with prawns and eggs. Pour the sauce over.
  6. Spoon mash on top and rough up with a fork. Bake at 200°C (400°F) for 25 minutes until golden and bubbling.
Bubble and Squeak

Bubble and Squeak

⏱ 25 min🍽 4 servings🔥 Easy

Sunday's leftover roast potatoes and greens fried in butter until crackling on the bottom and crowned with a runny egg.

Ingredients

  • 600 g cold cooked potatoes, roughly mashed
  • 300 g cooked Savoy cabbage or sprouts, chopped
  • 2 leeks, finely sliced
  • 60 g unsalted butter
  • Sea salt and pepper
  • 4 eggs
  • Brown sauce to serve

Instructions

  1. Melt half the butter in a heavy skillet; soften leeks 5 minutes.
  2. Mix leeks with potatoes, cabbage, salt, and pepper.
  3. Add remaining butter to the pan and tip the mix in, pressing into a cake.
  4. Fry undisturbed 10 minutes until a deep crust forms.
  5. Flip in sections; fry 8 minutes more.
  6. Fry eggs in a little butter; serve on top of the cake with brown sauce.
Leek and Potato Soup

Leek and Potato Soup

⏱ 50 min🍽 6 servings🔥 Easy

A silken velouté of butter-sweated leeks and floury potatoes, finished with cream and a snowfall of chives.

Ingredients

  • 60 g unsalted butter
  • 4 large leeks, white and pale green, sliced
  • 2 cloves garlic, sliced
  • 800 g floury potatoes, peeled and cubed
  • 1.2 liters chicken or vegetable stock
  • 2 bay leaves
  • Sea salt and white pepper
  • 150 ml double cream
  • Snipped chives
  • Buttered croutons

Instructions

  1. Melt butter in a heavy pot; sweat leeks with a pinch of salt 12 minutes without colour.
  2. Add garlic and cook 1 minute.
  3. Tip in potatoes, stock, and bay leaves; simmer 20 minutes until potatoes collapse.
  4. Remove bay leaves; blend until silky smooth.
  5. Stir in cream and check seasoning.
  6. Ladle into bowls and finish with chives and a few buttery croutons.
Cottage Loaf

Cottage Loaf

⏱ 3 hr 30 min🍽 1 loaf🔥 Medium

The classic two-tier English cottage loaf — a tall hat of dough on a wide bottom, baked until amber and hollow.

Ingredients

  • 500 g strong bread flour
  • 10 g fine salt
  • 7 g instant yeast
  • 30 g unsalted butter, softened
  • 320 ml warm water
  • Extra flour for dusting

Instructions

  1. Mix flour, salt, and yeast. Rub in butter; add water and knead 10 minutes to a smooth dough.
  2. Rise covered 1 hour 30 minutes until doubled.
  3. Knock back and divide two-thirds for the base, one-third for the top.
  4. Shape both into tight balls; sit the small ball on the large one and push a floured finger through both to anchor.
  5. Prove on a tray 45 minutes; dust with flour and snip the base sides with scissors.
  6. Bake at 220°C (425°F) for 30 minutes until deep golden and sounding hollow. Cool on a rack.
Sticky Toffee Pudding

Sticky Toffee Pudding

⏱ 1 hr🍽 8 servings🔥 Easy

Date-dark sponge soaked in a brown-sugar toffee sauce, served with proper cold cream — the most British of puddings.

Ingredients

  • 250 g pitted Medjool dates, chopped
  • 300 ml boiling water
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 75 g unsalted butter, softened
  • 150 g dark muscovado sugar
  • 2 large eggs
  • 175 g self-raising flour
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • For sauce: 200 g muscovado, 150 g butter, 300 ml double cream, pinch of salt

Instructions

  1. Cover dates with boiling water; stir in baking soda and rest 10 minutes. Blitz to a coarse purée.
  2. Cream butter and sugar; beat in eggs one at a time.
  3. Fold in flour, vanilla, and the date mixture. Pour into a buttered 23 cm dish.
  4. Bake at 180°C (350°F) for 35 minutes until risen and just firm.
  5. Simmer sauce ingredients 4 minutes until glossy.
  6. Skewer holes in the warm sponge and pour over half the sauce; rest 10 minutes. Serve with the rest of the sauce and cold cream.
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