Recipes

Here are some recipes to make the most of your beautiful fresh produce, and also to help you cope with those surpluses that happen in good years. They have all been tried by gardeners at Hollin Lane Allotments and they really work. Please send us your favourites, too.

Here are some handy collections of recipes.

• Recipes for Spring
  Recipes for what is available in spring.
• Recipes for Summer
  Recipes for the bounty of summer
• Recipes for Autumn
  Recipes for the autumn harvest
• Recipes for Winter
  Recipes to help us through the winter

And here are all of the recipes.

• Apple Biscuit
  An old French recipe. Don’t be fooled by the name; it’s actually a cake.
• Apple Butter
  Another good way of using up surplus or damaged apples …
• Apple Juice
  What do you do with all those windfall apples? Make apple juice …
• Baby Globe Artichokes
  Pick them young, before the choke develops and try this.
• Beetroot Tarte Tatin Recipe
  A beetroot recipe which is both different and delicious.
• Borlotti Beans
  I struggle to find things that work on my plot, but French beans Borlotti beans are my favourite…
• Broad Bean Salad
  Delicious and very simple.
• Cauliflower
  Two simple “Greek” recipes
• Chocolate rhubarb sponge pudding
  “This recipe is so good, I have to share it.”
• Courgette Kuku
  Delicious way to use up courgettes!
• Courgette Soup
  What to do with the courgette that got away? Courgette soup …
• Cucumber Soup
  A good use for a giant cucumber
• Curried Parsnip Soup
  A delicious and warming winter soup.
• Dried Beans
  It is not so hard to cook dried beans on your stove top.
• Elderflower Cordial
  Made in June gives you the fragrance of summer all year round.
• Fennel Baked with Parmesan Cheese
  If you manage to grow good fennel…
• Garlic Scapes
  Around mid-June our hardneck garlic sends up scapes – curly stems you can eat.
• Globe Artichokes
  I like the taste, of course, but I really love the leisurely ritual of eating them…
• Golden Apple Mincemeat
  Joan Croft’s delicious filling for tartlets, flans, sponge cake or topping to ice cream…
• Gooseberry Fool
  Made right, gooseberry fool is sublime!
• Greek Baked Giant Beans
  Would our white “Aztec” beans work in this dish?
• Jerusalem Artichoke Soup
  JAs are delicious roasted, and as soup.
• Kale Sprouts
  Spring is the time for kale sprouts – the best part of the plant.
• Mexican Refried Beans
  Frijoles refritos are easy to make, and Borlotti beans work really well.
• Okonomiyaki
  A Japanese favourite Okonomiyaki is a cabbage ‘pancake’.
• Pumpkin au Gratin
  A simple but comforting bake of pumpkin, potatoes and cheese.
• Rahkomenakakku
  A versatile Finnish cake with apples or other fruit.
• Rhubarb
  There is more to it than pie and crumble.
• Rhubarb Mousse
  has an unexpected gentleness on the palate and a subtle flavour…
• Scarpaccia
  A Tuscan zucchini pie without pastry …
• Sorrel-Onion Tart
  Utterly delicious – worth keeping a small bed of sorrel somewhere.
• Spinach with Garlic & Ginger
  An Indian recipe for spinach, this works with cabbage or kale, too.
• Strawberry Rhubarb Crisp
  A recipe for two of our favorite fruits which are ready to pick in June.
• Swedish Crispbread
  Jayne brought some to our work parties. Delicious!
• Tuscan Beans
  My favorite bean dish, using our large white “Aztec” beans, or borlottis.