Take five: ways in which britain made fake pies

DESSERT glasses, the ancestors of today’s trifle bowls ...

Ingredients 320g sheet of ready-rolled puff pastry, roughly 35 x 23cm Drizzle of extra-virgin olive oil Handful of dill, torn Salt and black pepper 3 types of skinless fish, roughly 300g in total, cut

“What! Soup in cake and pudding!” begins a 1941 recipe – and you’re probably thinking the same thing. “Yes, ma’am!” the recipe continues, “it gives rich color, helps keep them moist and fresh and make

A LAYER OF JAM ON THE BASE DELIVERS FRUIT AND SWEETNESS GLACÉ CHERRIES AND PLAIN WHITE ICING SWIRLS ADD OODLES OF SWEET NOSTALGIA NUTTY FRANGIPANE HAS A GLORIOUSLY TOOTHSOME FUDGINESS TOASTED OATS GIV

ALTHOUGH it may not have felt like it ...

Ingredients (Serves 8) 3 figs, halved 160 g flour 80 g butter 75 g caster sugar 2 eggs 125 g unsalted butter 90 g self raising flour 50 g ground almonds 1 Rub the butter into the flour until it resemb