Although it’s now a beloved breakfast staple, the divisively delicious blood sausage has had a chequered and visceral history, reveals Patrick Galbraith

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In and around the Howardian Hills, chefs are crafting dishes that sing of this county’s rich larder, with ingredients like zesty spruce tips and salted rhubarb adding pizazz to locally sourced fish, meat and game

A few tips for the perfect pie: get a round enamel pie dish if possible, use all-butter puff pastry, cut the circle of pastry with a very sharp knife so that you don’t pinch the layers together and ma

Enjoy more time for brunching over the festive season. Serve this with pigs in blankets, if you like. SERVES 4 PREP 10 mins COOK 10 mins EASY V 1 British Morrisons Market Street leek, trimmed and thin

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