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Cooking, preserving and home brewing

From the home brewery to ambitions of chefly grandeur. Find out how to do it all here and really taste the difference.

cooking a pig's head
What to do with an egg glut
Dehydrating your produce
Simple ways to cook more cheaply
Sticky Gingerbread
No Knead Bread
Dressing a pheasant
Butchering half a pig
Building a Cob Oven
Building a back garden Tandoor Oven.
Kimchi
Easy, Cider
Making Mayonnaise with a Mixer
Making Butter
Ten Quid for a Chicken?
Easy Marmalade
How to joint a chicken
Butchering a lamb or sheep
Pricey's Perfected Pork Pie
Portuguese Meat Roll
Graveyard Cake
Bingo's Chocolate Mousse
The Wine-Maker's Calendar - August
Pastry for the Worried
Bingo's Banoffee Pie
How To Make Preserved Lemons
The Wine-Maker's Calendar - July
Preparing a Pigeon
The Wine-Maker's Calendar - June
The Wine-Maker's Calendar - May
The Wine-Maker's Calendar - April
Squirrel Nutkins Great Feast
The Wine-Maker's Calendar - March
Sausage Twisting
Sausage Making
The Wine-Maker's Calendar - February
Preparing a hare
Dealing with half a pig
Home-made chocolates
Homebrew, for the complete amateur
Rich Fruit Christmas Cake
First Steps In Cheese Making
Organising a wholefood co-op order
Preparing Lobster & Crab
Elderflower Recipes
Things to do with rabbits and hares
A simple handmade loaf
Marmalade And Other Things To Make With Citrus Fruits
Battenburg: Go on get fancy...
Making a simple cider/wine press
 
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