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Cornish Recipes in Cornwall

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 the Salt Wind Catering kitchen team.

Cornish Recipes

Traditional Cornish Pasty Recipe

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, ...

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Cornish Recipes

Cornish Clotted Cream Fudge Recipe

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 su...

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Cornish Recipes

Stargazey Pie Recipe

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 upw...

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Cornish Recipes

Cornish Saffron Cake Recipe

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, fragran...

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Cornish Recipes

Cornish Apple & Damson Chutney Recipe

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 Br...

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Cornish Recipes

Elderflower Cordial Recipe

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. ...

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Cornish Recipes

Cornish Cream Tea Scones Recipe

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 swee...

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Cornish Recipes

Cornish Saffron Buns Recipe

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 reac...

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Cornish Recipes

Cornish Crab Linguine Recipe

Fresh Cornish crab, linguine, lemon, chilli and a knob of proper Cornish butter. This is one of those recipes that sounds fancy but takes under 20 minutes and t...

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