Minted Courgette and Egg Salad
We've gone spicy and exotic with our main meal for February's menu with a Dry Lamb Curry. The lamb chunks are tenderized in a the spicy marinade and then fried to perfection in olive oil. This curry follows our starter Minted Courgette and Egg Salad which consists of finely sliced courgettes spiced up with harissa paste and served with hard boiled eggs. For dessert may we suggest Choccy Rocky Cake, a delicious confection just right for Valentine's Day.
 

Ginger Sponge
This NAAFI ginger cake was baked in what were called lunch tins and an individual portion cost 1d to make. The original recipe calls for 3/4 pint of mixed milk and water but this makes an extremely loose batter which can not have been the intention since the cake should be brushed with beaten egg and decorated with split, blanched almonds if liked. The recipe makes a (continued...)

Valentine's Day
A selection of Valentine's recipes for you to try including:
Brandied Peaches
Chocolate Fondue
Tiramisu

Forum
A topic being discussed at the moment on our forum:

Eating affordably and ethically


In a post I just made in the Christmas dinner thread I referred to ethics and thought I should expand on that a bit.

Being an advocate of the free-market, I don't agree with government intervention in matters of food except for the most extreme cases. Many argue that battery farming is an issue for the Food Standards Agency. I don't agree. Many people can only afford to eat chicken because it has been battery farmed.

However I don't agree with battery farming and I know the only way it's...


Cornish Seaside
Featured in the BBC's Best of The Web, Connie's Cornish Kitchen has recipes for:
Cornish Pasty
Saffron Cake
Clotted Cream and more.

Rhubarb
Rhubarb is a very useful plant to have in the vegetable plot. It is a fleshy stalk which is treated as a fruit for the purposes of cooking. The pink or red stalks freeze very well cooked or raw and are a wonderful stand by for crumbles, pies, fools and many other desserts. A bumper crop may result in enough to make an excellent wine. (continued...)

Fig Jam
Before the advent of widely available, patented medicines, those who could not afford the fees of the local apothecary had to rely on home-made cures. Inevitably, since all cures were based on naturally occurring substances, the boundaries between medicine and food were (continued..)

Candlemas
Candlemas - 2nd February. Candlemas Day falls on the 2nd of February. In the Church calendar it is The Feast of The Purification of Our Lady and the Presentation of Christ in the Temple. It is also the day when the church candles are blessed, given out and carried in procession. This part of the celebration is a continuation of the ancient pagan Feast of Lights (continued...)