Today’s recipe for Lincolnshire Sausage, Sage & Onion Pies is a cheat’s recipe. and only uses 4 ingredients

Using Store Cupboard Ingredients

Today’s recipe for Lincolnshire Sausage, Sage & Onion Pies is a cheat’s recipe. and only uses 4 ingredients.

Made with ready-rolled puff pastry, butcher’s sausages, a packet of stuffing mixture and an egg, these pies taste fabulous.

Lincolnshire Sausage, Sage & Onion Pies are certainly not “haute cuisine”, but they make a fabulous family meal.

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Today’s recipe for School Dinners Chocolate Concrete (Chocolate Crunch), is a new “Old” recipe, beloved of school cooks

A Retro School Pudding

Today’s recipe for School Dinners Chocolate Concrete (Chocolate Crunch), is a new “Old” recipe.

Yes, it’s the old school dinners pudding favourite, served with pink custard, which is actually pink blancmange.

The recipe is from a friend’s mother, who used to be a school cook. 

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A fabulous recipe for Old-Fashioned Fish Pie to chase away those winter blues, although you can of course make this fish pie all year

Lightened Up Healthy Recipe

A fabulous recipe for Old-Fashioned Fish Pie to chase away those winter blues, although you can of course make this fish pie all the year round.

It’s a classic recipe for fish pie, but lightened up, with fewer calories than usual – but with no compromise on the taste.

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These Mini Brie & Cranberry Puff Pastry Parcels are utterly DIVINE. They would be perfect for any festive parties.

For Festive Nibbling and Sparkling Parties!

These Mini Brie & Cranberry Puff Pastry Parcels are utterly DIVINE. Made with just four ingredients, plus an egg for the glaze, they would be perfect for any festive parties.

The ingredients are a pack of ready-rolled puff pastry, Brie cheese, cranberry sauce and some hazelnut nibs, with a small beaten egg for the glaze.

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These easy to make Pigs in Blanket and Cranberry Turnovers use only five ingredients plus a beaten egg for the glaze

Bake in the Air Fryer or a Coventional Oven

These easy to make Pigs in Blanket and Cranberry Turnovers use only five ingredients plus a beaten egg for the glaze.

The recipe yields between 8 and 12 turnovers, depending on how big you cut the puff pastry squares, and they are baked in the air fryer.

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Cherry Bakewell Tea Loaf – Another Tea Loaf! As far as I am concerned you can never have enough recipes for tea loaves

Another one for the Tea Loaf Files!

Another Tea Loaf! As far as I am concerned you can never have enough recipes for tea loaves. Today’s recipe if for a Cherry Bakewell Tea Loaf.

It’s a fabulous cake style loaf, which is very moist, with flecks and chunks of glace cherries in it, as well as flaked almonds on the top.

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I know this Farmhouse Beef and Sausage Shape doesn’t look very attractive, but I cannot emphasise how delicious this is.

An Old English Farmhouse Recipe from East Anglia and Lincolnshire

I know this Farmhouse Beef and Sausage Shape doesn’t look very attractive, but I cannot emphasise how delicious this is.

It’s a very old farmhouse recipe, believed to originate from East Anglia and Lincolnshire. The orignal recipe was in an old Farmhouse cookbook I have by Mary Norwak.

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Meat & Potato Pie – Today’s recipe for Meat & Potato Pie is a much-loved recipe from my childhood. My mum used to make it regularly.

Made in the Ninja Foodi 14-in-1 also with Conventional Oven and Slow Cooker Instructions

Today’s recipe for Meat & Potato Pie is a much-loved recipe from my childhood. My mum and her mum, my grandmother used to make it regularly.

The pastry is made with hot water crust pastry, which is usually reserved for Pork Pies, or raised pies.

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My School Dinner recipes have been very popular lately, and here’s the recipe for School Dinner Cheese Flan, which I promised to share.

Also called Cheese & Egg Flan and Cheese Pie

My School Dinner recipes have been very popular lately, and here’s the recipe for School Dinner Cheese Flan, which I promised to share.

Also called Cheese & Egg Flan, or Cheese Pie, it has JUST four ingredients in it.

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July in the UK has been a WASH OUT! Wet and windy with storms, so today I’m sharing some comforting Retro School Dinners Recipes.

School Jam Tart

Comfort food from the School Canteen

July in the UK has been a WASH OUT! Wet and windy with storms, so today I’m sharing some comforting Retro School Dinners Recipes.

From hearty puddings to pies and flans, I hope you will find some inspiration in the following recipes I’m sharing.

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