Salt Wind Catering Blog
Cornish recipes from our kitchen in Redruth. Seasonal dishes, classic Cornish ingredients, and simple recipes inspired by the land and sea of Cornwall — written by our recipe developer Elowen.
A proper Cornish pasty is not a pie. It is not a "pasty-style" snack from a service station. It is raw skirt steak, sliced waxy potato, sliced swede and onion, ...
Cornish lamb is some of the finest in Britain — the animals graze on coastal clifftops and moorland pasture, which gives the meat a clean, mineral sweetness. Th...
Cornish fudge is sold at every gift shop in the county and most of it is not worth eating. Properly made fudge — with actual Cornish clotted cream, butter and s...
Stargazey pie is a Cornish legend — a deep-dish fish pie with whole pilchards or sardines baked into the pastry so their heads poke through the crust, gazing up...
Where the saffron bun is a celebration snack, the saffron cake is a keeping cake — a large, enriched loaf studded with currants, mixed peel and cherries, fragra...
September in Cornwall means the hedgerows are full of damsons and the orchards are dropping windfalls you can barely give away. This chutney uses both — sharp B...
Curing salmon at home is easier than it sounds and the result is spectacularly better than anything you can buy. This version uses Tarquin's Cornish Gin — made ...
Elder trees flower in Cornwall in May and June, lining the lanes and hedgerows with clusters of cream-white blossom that smell like the best version of summer. ...
Cauliflower cheese is a British institution. Made with Cornish Yarg — the nettle-wrapped semi-hard cheese made near Penryn — it becomes something else entirely....
In Cornwall, you put the jam on first. Then the clotted cream. That is not up for debate. This is the classic Cornish cream tea scone recipe — light, barely swe...
Proper crab cakes are mostly crab — not mostly breadcrumbs with a hint of crab. These use fresh picked Cornish white crab meat bound with just enough to hold th...
Cornish saffron buns are one of the oldest baked goods in Britain — saffron was traded into Cornwall via the tin and copper trade routes centuries before it rea...
