Catering Tips & Ideas
Recipes, event ideas, and catering guides from our kitchen in Redruth.
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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, fragrant with saffron, that improves over several days wrapped in greaseproof paper. It is the cake that sat on every Cornish farmhouse table for generations. This is the proper version.
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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 Bramley apples and tart damsons slow-cooked with cider vinegar, brown sugar, onions and warm spice. It jars beautifully, keeps for a year, and is what a Cornish ploughman's is built around.
Vegan & Plant-Based Event Catering Across Cornwall Every event has vegan guests now. Whether it's two people at a birthday, half the team at a corporate lunch, or an entire wedding party — plant-based catering isn't niche anymore. It's expected. The problem is how most caterers handle it. A sad side salad. A plate of hummus and carrot sticks while everyone else eats properly. A token veggie option that's clearly been thrown together as an afterthought. That's not catering — that's an insult....
Hot Food & Crew Catering for Construction Sites Across Cornwall Construction crews in Cornwall work hard, start early, and need proper food. Not a vending machine, not a petrol station pasty at 6am, and not losing half an hour of productive time sending someone off-site to find lunch. Salt Wind Catering delivers hot breakfasts, lunch buffets, bulk pasties and crew catering direct to construction sites across Cornwall. We turn up at the time you need us, feed your team, and leave. No...
Buffets & Pasties Delivered to Your Stand at Cornwall's Agricultural Shows The best stands at Cornwall's agricultural shows have one thing in common: they give people a reason to stop, stay and talk. And nothing draws visitors onto a stand like proper food. Salt Wind Catering delivers ready-to-serve buffets, Cornish pasties and grazing platters direct to exhibitor stands at the Royal Cornwall Show (4th–6th June 2026) and Stithians Show (13th July 2026). We bring everything to your pitch...
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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 in Wadebridge from foraged botanicals including fresh-picked violets — along with lemon zest, dill and salt. The cure takes 48 hours and produces silky, jewel-coloured salmon that keeps for up to 5 days in the fridge.
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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. Pick them on a dry, sunny day and you have the base for a cordial that tastes nothing like the supermarket version. This is one of those recipes that makes people ask if you actually made it yourself.
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Cauliflower cheese is a British institution. Made with Cornish Yarg — the nettle-wrapped semi-hard cheese made near Penryn — it becomes something else entirely. The yarg melts into a sauce with a gentle creaminess and a slightly earthy, herbaceous note from the nettles. This is a proper side dish or a main event in its own right.
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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 sweet, with a good rise and a slight crust on top. The clotted cream should be thick enough to stand a teaspoon in. The jam should be strawberry. The debate should end.
We have all been there. You are in a high-stakes meeting or a long-awaited team-building day, and then it arrives: the beige buffet. A sea of triangle sandwiches, lukewarm sausage rolls, and a bowl of crisps that have seen better days. At Salt Wind Catering, we believe that if you want your team or your clients to feel valued, you have to feed them like you mean it. The era of the uninspiring office lunch is over. In its place? Social Dining. Here is why switching to an interactive, artisan...
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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 them together, seasoned with lemon zest, chives and a little Dijon, then pan-fried in butter until golden. Served with a quick samphire and crème fraîche alongside.
From urgent office lunches to film shoots and family gatherings, here is how to get premium Cornish sandwich platters delivered with just 24 hours notice. Last-minute catering happens. Meetings get scheduled late. Film crews suddenly need feeding. Guest numbers double overnight. When you are searching for next-day sandwich platter delivery in Cornwall, speed matters but not at the expense of quality. That is exactly where Salt Wind Catering comes in. We specialise in fresh, locally made...
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