Have your oatcake and eat it

There is a story that in the 17th century, Oliver Cromwell banned Eccles cakes on the grounds that they were too indulgent: all of that melting pastry and expensive dried fruit, sugar and spice deemed

Ingredients (Serves 4-6) 350 g potatoes, peeled,diced225 g swede, peeled, diced2 eggs50 g butter50 g plain flour600 ml milk, plus extra formashing450 g smoked haddock,skinned and cubed110 g frozen pea

Best served warm and spread liberally with butter, these come together in a jiffy. MAKES 10 PREP 10 MINS COOK 10 MINS ✱ 250g self-raising flour ✱ 1tsp baking powder ✱ 1½tsp mustard powder ✱ ¼tsp cayen

Halloween trick-or-treating is seemingly an excuse for kids to consume far too many sweets. But this modern tradition has a more virtuous – and tastier! – origin: soul cakes. The word ‘Halloween’ is a

We challenged the GH food team to impress us with their most loved bakes…

■ Cuts into 8-10 slices ■ Prep 20 mins plus cooling ■ Cook 45-50 mins 1 x loaf cake base ingredients(see left)4 tbsp elderflower cordial4 tbsp granulated sugar (or usegolden granulated sugar) 1 Heat t