Neil Cooks Grigson

Eagle-eyed followers of the blog will notice that there has been no Apple Sauce I or II. In English Food there four recipes for apple sauce,...

Well who would’ve ever have thunk that I would still be doing this frankly stupid endeavour and be quickly approaching number 200. I have be...

I’ve been rather busy of late and not had much time for cooking or blogging. Oh well, we all have fallow periods. It seems like ages ago tha...

The first of four eel-based recipes from the book (five if you include the elvers recipe) and hopefully the star turn for my dinner party . ...

The starter to the dinner party . The problem with dinner parties is that unless you’re careful, you end up stressed out in the kitchen cook...

The entrée for the dinner party . It’s one of those recipes that I’ve never got round to because – frankly – it’s never really seemed that i...

So how do you kill and prepare an eel? Well, if you look in English Food , Griggers just says to ask your fishmonger to do the dirty work. T...

There are four eel recipes in English Food: fried eel, jellied eel, eel stew and eel pie. If I’ve any chance of cooking all the recipes in E...

I had a dinner party at the weekend and invited some folks from work. It’s good to cook for people, though for this one, the guests really w...

Yes, another soup... This recipe is the very first one that appears in English Food. Although it may seem rather odd nowadays, it is one of ...

Kidney Soup was apparently a kitchen standby in households of times past – particularly in Scotland. Indeed, this recipe is taken from Flore...

In days of yore, we English loved potted meats and fish. You don’t seem to see many potted foodstuffs around these days: though potted beef ...

Here we are in Autumn proper, and although there’s still a decent ‘in season’ list, many of the really summery fruit and veg have started to...

It was Butters’ birthday the other week, so naturally I did a bit cooking. He requested lamb as that is his favourite meat. This one is an i...

A bit of a cop out this one as it it’s not really a recipe, though it is listed as one in the book. It’s actually more a bit of advice on go...

“People sometimes shudder at the mention of roly-poly puddings” says the Grigson; er, no dear, just the idea of THIS one! Why on Earth is th...

Another bargain from Orton Farmers’ market – a nice leg of lamb for a tenner. I love lamb, I do. Griggers actually half-inched this one from...

I am still trying to count the pennies at the minute and this recipe was designed to be cheap to make as it is from Alexis Soyer’s book Shil...

To go with the vegetable soup I made yesterday, Old Griggers recommends these cheese and oat biscuits to help pad it out into a main meal. ...

In case you didn’t know, ‘Thrifty’ is my middle name. Well ‘Skint’ is, at any rate and I’m ploughing through the cheaper of the recipes. Thi...