Traditional Homemade Scones

Homemade Brown Bread

Traditional Homemade Marmalade

Peter Ward, founder of the Country Choice grocery in Nenagh, Co Tipperary, devised this recipe for his son, who missed homebaked bread while he was a student in Dublin. As with most students he had no experience and few utensils in his student-housing kitchen, but as Peter so rightly deduced, he knew that every Irish student would have a pint glass, which he's brought home from a pub, so he invented a recipe for the simplest bread in the world, one whose ingredients he could measure out with a pint glass.

The beauty of this little tartlet, which I suppose can only be appreciated by the gooseberry loving faction of foodies, is that it presents the berries in all their honest glory. Sweetened, yes, but still intact and slightly sour. Would we have them any other way. Don’t make this with those supermarket gooseberries that have been bred to be sweetly innocuous. The pastry is a strange affair, having no flour and needing no shaping, as you’ll see from the instructions. But it turns out thin, crisp and sweet – a perfect foil for gooseberries.

Prawns are everyone’s favourite and nice plump prawns with a pistachio coating gives a lovely crunch texture to the dish