Recipe: Tomato and mint soup

Ingredients
125 g Butter
500g Onions
1700G Tomato
170ml Dry sherry
2 tbls caster sugar
3 tbls chopped mnit

Method
sweat onions in butter untill soft
Add the tomatoes, sherry, sugar, mint & seasoning
Stir and cover, cook for 45 minutes
Liquidise untill smooth, pass through sieve
Add a little stock to balance out thickness of soup
Serve with cream

Recipe: Hazelnut and Almond praline

Ingredients
300g Flaked almonds
300g Hazelnuts
200ml Water
600g Sugar

Method
place the hazelnuts on a tray and roast in a hot oven until well browned
Remove from the oven and rub off the skins
Place the almonds under the grill until lightly browned
Place the sugar and water in to a heavy based pan, bring to the boil ensuring the sugar is desolved
cook until the sugar turns golden brown (do not stir at this stage)
Remove from te heat and add the nuts, turn out the mix on to a piece of silicone, allow to cool
Store in an airtight container until required

Recipe: Basic Brulee

Ingredients
1 Ltr Double cream
12 Egg yolks
150g caster sugar
2 Vanilla pods

Method
Place the double cream in a pan & add the two vanilla pods that have been split, Bring the cream to the boil, remove from heat and allow to infuse for two hours
Pass the cream and re-boil
Mix the egg yolks & sugar in a bowl, whisk until white and fluffy
Pour on the cream & whisk well
Place the bowl over a pan of boiling water and continuously whisk until the cream reaches the ribbon stage
Pour into moulds and chill over night

Recipe: walnut and sultana bread

Ingredients list A
200g Fresh yeast
720ml Milk
150g Clear honey
700g Strong flour
200g Molasses

Ingredients list B
4 Kg Wholemeal flour
500g Butter
120g Salt
2 Ltr Warm milk
500g Chopped walnuts
500g Sultana
10 Eggs

Method
Mix all ingredientsof A for the forment, leave for at least 15 minutes, but preferably overnight
Combine all dry ingredients of B apart from walnuts ans sultanas in a mixing machine
Add enough of the ferment liquid to create a dough.
Ferment the dough for 30 minutes, then add the walnuts and sultanas
Knock back the dough, cut to size
Bake at 425f with steam and dampers closed for ten minutes, open dampers and finish cooking without steam

Recipe: Pickled mushrooms

Ingredients
400 ml white wine
200ml white wine vinegar
2 shallots diced
2 Garlic cloves crushed
400ml Olive oil
1 Bay leaf
500g Wild mushrooms

Method
Wash and dry the mushrooms
Add the wine to the vinegar and bring to the boil
Add the mushrooms and simmer until tender
Drain and leave the liquid to one side, once cooled slightly add the olive oil
Sweat the shallots and garlic, remove from heat
Place the mushrooms in a jar, add the bay leaf, shallot and garlic.
pour over enough cooking liquid to cover
Store in the fridge
Remember to season as you go!

Recipe: Cheese cake filling

Ingredients for the filling
1/3 pint of flavouring (this can be any flavouring you like)
170g sugar
350g Mascapone
500ml cream
4 sheets gelatine

Method
Mix the cheese and sugar together
Dissolve the gelatine in the filling
Add the flavouring to the cheese mix
Lift in the whipped cream
Spoon the mix in to a ring, already set with a base
Chilli for 4 hours

This mix makes one 10" ring.