Neil Cooks Grigson

Eliza Acton (1799-1859) was a cook and poet. She was the first person write a cook book for normal folk like you and I, all the previo...

  Here’s a nice simple recipe that really shows off simple English cooking at its best. When I first started cooking boiled meats for ...

Pease pudding is one of the oldest dishes, and most popular, in English history. The main ingredient in pease pudding is of course peas....

In case you are worried here a faggot is in fact a pork meatball and not a homosexual. The word faggot actually comes from the old Norman...

Here’s the second of three herring or mackerel roe dishes from the Saltwater Fish part of the Fish Chapter. I loved the first one, #15...

I love an oatcake – in fact I love oats in general, they are my favourite of the cereals. You may think that Jane Grigson is taking lib...

‘The best of all buns, on account of their buttery melting sweetness, and the fun of uncoiling them as you eat them’ Jane Grigson Che...

Here’s a raised pie that is versatile – you can use chicken, rabbit or any other game as its base. I went with game as I love cooking wi...

Rabbits are vermin and therefore, unlike most other game, have no ‘season’ and can be hunted all year round. This does not mean they are...

Chilli peppers and sweet bell peppers have never really been absorbed into our eating culture. I cannot think of a single English (or inde...

Jane Grigson gives this recipe no introduction or explanation, but one can tell from the title that this was an old recipe. It consists of...

Venison is, of course, the king of all game, though being a wild animal, you do get a lot of variation in the tenderness of meat; it can...