My Prime Twelve Recipes of 2024

January 2, 2025

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My Prime Twelve Recipes of 2024 – The preferred recipes of 2024, as chosen by you the readers and the hundreds of visits to entry them!

To start with, I’d wish to want you all a Very Comfortable New 12 months – I hope 2025 is form to you, and you’ll fulfil your hopes and desires, in addition to keep wholesome.

I want for an finish to world conflicts, a kinder extra tolerant society, the continued enjoyment of much-loved customs & traditions, extra exploration & journey, plus happiness and pleasure for me, my household and buddies.

However again to at this time, the 2nd of January, and a model New 12 months. I used to be fascinated to see what my most fashionable recipes had been from 2024, so right here, on your enjoyment, I’ve assembled them multi function publish.

My Prime Twelve Recipes

Primary – In prime place, is Faculty Dinner Cheese Flan. Additionally known as Cheese & Egg Flan, or Cheese Pie, it has JUST 4 elements in it. Specifically cheese, eggs, milk and pastry. I bear in mind it effectively from my faculty days, when it was at all times served heat with chips and baked beans. It wasn’t at all times fashionable with everybody, however as a pie and flan addict, I cherished it! It’s fairly a wealthy recipe, however excessive in protein, so very filling. There was one thing in regards to the barely wobbly tacky custard baked in shortcrust pastry, that was one way or the other very comforting.

Quantity two – in second place is a much-loved household recipe for Ninja Stress Cooker Ham (Gammon). My recipe for Ninja Stress Cooker Ham (Gammon) is a superb approach to cook dinner a big joint of ham, or gammon, in simply 1 hour. Nonetheless meltingly tender and infused with aromatics, this technique isn’t just fast, however it saves on vitality prices too.You’ll be able to cook dinner this in an ordinary stress cooker, in addition to a Ninja Multi Cooker, or an Instantaneous Pot Multi Cooker. It’s bascially my conventional Baked Ham recipe, however cooked in a fraction of the time. Serve this ham for Easter lunch, with heaps left over for sandwiches, salads, soups and stews. We love ham as served a part of a Sunday Tea Tray Supper, or for a midweek tea; served with boiled eggs, and home made bread, It’s additionally great when served with home made chunky chips, as a part of ham, egg and chips, which was my late dad’s favorite.

Quantity three – one other huge favorite right here, The Queen’s Chocolate Biscuit Cake – this recipe was additionally massively fashionable in 2022 and 2023. My recipe for The Queen’s Chocolate Biscuit Cake is a variation on one I’ve been making for years, with out realising that it was Her Majesty the Queen’s favorite cake. It was a favorite for birthday events and the cake tin, with my daughter taking a small sq. to highschool in her lunch field typically. Apparently, Her Majesty is so keen on this recipe for The Queen’s Chocolate Biscuit Cake, that she has it each day within the afternoon with a cuppa, and can get pleasure from a slice on daily basis till it’s all gone. I really like this concept that The Queen is a little bit of a chocoholic, and enjoys a easy no-bake cake above different extra complicated desserts.

Quantity 4 – My late mom could be happy to bits to see this in my prime twelve, because it was her recipe for Conventional Home made Pickled Onions. This recipe may be very poignant, because it was my mum’s recipe for Conventional Home made Pickled Onions, and he or she made a couple of jars each November for the Christmas tea desk. Why solely make these in November? Properly, within the UK you begin to see small “pickling onions” within the greengrocers and supermarkets from October onwards, and with a view to the Christmas buffet desk, and that ubiquitous cheese board, now’s the time to make these pickled onions so that they have time to “mature” for six weeks. In the event you make them within the first week of November, they are going to be splendidly mellow however nonetheless crisp and crunchy by the point the festive interval begins in earnest. These Conventional Home made Pickled Onions WILL maintain fairly fortunately for as much as a yr within the pantry, so long as it’s cool and darkish, however they’re finest eaten with 6 months. Serve these conventional pickled onions with cheese, chilly meats, pork pies, ploughman’s lunch in addition to with quiches, flans and salads. They’re additionally nice when served with fish and chips, within the type of a correct “Yorkshire Fish Supper”. I even have a recipe for pickled shallots right here: Christmas in a Jar – Pickled Shallots ought to you may have issues discovering small pickling onions.

Quantity 5 – is one other faculty dinners recipe, for Faculty Chocolate Sponge & Chocolate Custard. My recipe for Faculty Chocolate Sponge & Chocolate Custard is an actual blast from the previous! It’s my model of a favorite faculty dinner’s pudding. Huge squares of chocolate sponge cake, at all times baked in an enormous roasting tin, had been served with lashings of chocolate custard. It was the most effective pudding ever on a moist, windy or chilly faculty day, and the parts had been at all times very beneficiant too. I’ve not shared a recipe for twenty-four parts (or extra!) of Faculty Chocolate Sponge & Chocolate Custard at this time, simply 9 massive squares on your eating pleasure! It is a delightfully wealthy and lightweight chocolate cake and it reheats effectively within the microwave. You’ll be able to serve it with Pink Custard when you like, however we favor a double chocolate whammy. The custard is unashamedly made with Hen’s Custard Powder, as I’m certain the college cooks made it, with added cocoa powder. And, as you possibly can see from the photographs, it’s a stunning shiny and glossy custard, which matches completely with the chocolate sponge. This retains effectively too, within the an hermetic tin, and it may be eaten bare (the cake that’s, not you!) when you favor. Or why not add some chocolate icing or buttercream with some lots of and hundreds, for a chocolate model of my Retro Faculty Dinner Iced Tray Bake Cake?

School Chocolate Sponge & Chocolate Custard

Quantity six – One other very poignant recipe, for Mums Two Ingredient Strawberry Mousse. This recipe for Mum’s Two Ingredient Strawberry Mousse is certainly one of my favorite “frugal” retro recipes. Mum used to make this usually for Sunday Tea, in addition to for particular events, resembling Birthdays, Easter, Christmas and simply because! Made with simply two most important elements, Evaporated Milk and Jelly, you possibly can add lemon juice when you like a sharper flavour, and mum at all times added lemon juice to hers. In the event you don’t have any contemporary lemons, then bottled lemon juice works simply fantastic, and people little lemon formed bottles of Jif Lemon Juice.

Quantity seven – House away from House: Betty’s Fats Rascals Recipe is available in at quantity seven this yr, however it was nunber one a yr or two in the past! My tackle the well-known Betty’s Fats Rascals; Fats Rascals are a cross between a bun and a scone, extra like a rock cake, and are scrumptious when loved with a day cuppa. The origin of the identify is unknown, however they’re thought to have been made for the reason that mid-Nineteenth Century underneath the identify of Fats Rascals, though the unique recipe is regarded as Elizabethan.

Quantity eight – A bread recipe, and one other recipe that was within the prime three a yr in the past. Sourdough Bread within the Ninja Foodi, is a recipe I make usually. I LOVE baking my very own bread, as common readers will know. And, I’ve dozens of bread recipes right here on Lavender & Lovage. However at this time’s recipe for Sourdough Bread within the Ninja Foodi is a primary. This Sourdough Bread within the Ninja Foodi is baked in a multi-cooker; multi-cookers are identified extra typically as Instantaneous Pots, Air Fryers, Crockpot or as within the case of mine, a Ninja Foodi. My mannequin is the Ninja Foodi MAX 14-in-1 SmartLid Multi-Cooker 7.5L, and it has 14 wonderful features, because it’s identify suggests. In an try to chop again on costly vitality prices, as normally this loaf takes 1 hour to bake in a extremely popular oven. I’ve exprimented with baking my typical Basic Sourdough Bread made Simple, however in my Ninja Foodi. As you possibly can see, the loaf is completely baked with a lightweight, ethereal and chewy crumb. It took ONLY 25 minutes to bake at 180C. As I discussed earlier than, if I baked this in my regular electrical oven, it could take 1 hour, at a temperatire of 230C/220C fan.

Quantity 9 – This was a shock, because it’s not been within the prime ten up to now, however it’s a superb recipe for Conventional Oxtail Stew. This recipe for Conventional Oxtail Stew is as outdated because the hills, as my mum and grandmother used to say. It’s a conventional British stew utilizing a really low-cost minimize of beef, particularly oxtail. Oxtail has change into very talked-about once more just lately, after languishing for some time on the backside of the butcher’s record. Each my mum and each grandmother’s used to make use of it loads, because it was an affordable and cheerful minimize of meat, though classed as offal. Oxtail wants a little bit care when getting ready and takes a very long time to cook dinner, with the intention to render it tender, however that is greater than made up for in it’s flavour, which is splendidly wealthy and beefy. This recipe for Conventional Oxtail Stew makes use of wine as the primary cooking liquor, however beer can be nice, particularly darkish beers, stouts and porters resembling Guinness. A tip, as oxtail may be very fatty, you possibly can both trim many of the seen fats off earlier than cooking, which may be tough, or cook dinner it forward of time, enable it to go chilly and skim all of the fats off the floor then. You simply want to softly reheat it then. You probably have any leftovers, enable it to go chilly and strip the meat off the bone, with the intention to make oxtail soup. I hope you get pleasure from this conventional British recipe, it’s actual consolation meals and is fabulous when served with mashed potatoes and steamed greens, such a cabbage.

Quantity ten – What a surpise to see this within the Prime Twelve! A easy recipe for Egg in a Cup. A easy and comforting dish for breakfast, tea or supper – Egg in a Cup is a really poignant one, as my late mom used to cook dinner this for me earlier than I used to go to highschool. Not that we knew this easy egg recipe as Egg in a Cup! It was at all times generally known as Buttered Boiled Eggs. Mum would boil 2 eggs every, till cooked however with a runny yolk, then she would chop the eggs with the again of a fork, add some butter, salt and white pepper, and roughly mash the eggs with the butter and seasonings. We had been then served this pleasant eggy dish in a small bowl, mug or a big cup, with toast or bread and butter on the facet. The wedding of salted butter with white pepper, and delicate boiled eggs was so comforting, in addition to filling too. I believed it may be enjoyable to share a number of the different names right here:
Egg in a Cup
Eggs in a Cup
Chopped Egg in a Cup
Uneven Eggs
Mashy Eggs
Eggy Cup
Chappie Egg
And eventually, what we used to name them, Buttered Smooth Boiled Eggs.

Quantity eleven – This has been massively fashionable for a very long time now, and it’s a household favorite. Simple Mincemeat Cake. This recipe for Simple Mincemeat Cake is one I’ve been baking for a few years, and my mum earlier than me – it was my late father’s favorite cake. It additionally makes a superb final minute Christmas cake, and is sort of frugal in prices too. You’ll be able to nonetheless add marzipan and icing if you want, and even “feed” it with brandy. Made with simply mincemeat, flour, eggs, butter, blended spice and freshly zested orange peel, it’s delightfully fruity and really moist. I like to recommend utilizing an excellent high quality mincemeat, and even higher, a home made mincemeat for a greater tasting cake. I’ve a number of mincemeat recipes on Lavender & Lovage, and I made this cake (as proven within the photographs) with this recipe: BOOZY FAT-FREE MINCEMEAT. As soon as made, this Simple Mincemeat Cake stays contemporary in an hermetic tin for at the very least every week, and turns into sticky, virtually like a ginger parkin or a malt loaf. In the event you hail from Yorkshire, as my husband does, he additionally likes this with a slice of Wensleydale cheese. In the event you don’t have a contemporary orange at hand, then simply add a tablespoon of fantastic shred orange marmalade for that important citrus style. Make this for the weekly cake tin, or for Sunday tea time, it’s at all times devoured right here with my husband sneaking an additional slice from the cake tin!

Quantity twelve – This perhaps the final recipe in my Prime Twelve, however it’s additionally one other very talked-about household recipe. Previous-Usual Tinned Salmon Sandwiches. My recipe at this time for Previous-Usual Tinned Salmon Sandwiches is a household favorite, and one which my late mother and father and each units of grandparents cherished. These Previous-Usual Tinned Salmon Sandwiches had been made most Sundays for afternoon tea, or for the Sunday Tea Tray. They had been particular sufficient to grace the desk at different events too, resembling birthday events, Christmas, Easter and once we had visitors for Sunday tea. The important thing ingredient, other than the salmon, was malt vinegar and white pepper – and consider me when say that these are important to this sandwich filling. No fancy pants “freshly grated black pepper” or “cider apple vinegar” is required for this sandwich filling, it’s a easy recipe that has been round for many years.