The Big World Recipes Index

Recipe pages from the big world sites:

Pickled Recipes pages: Recipes include Pickled onions, beetroots, eggs, gherkins, walnuts, chillies and more.

Most Pickled recipes use vinegar as a means of preserving. The food is preserved in the vinegar which soaks in to the foodstuff and removes the air stopping most of the oxidising process. Some Pickled recipes are made in brine which uses the foods natural bacteria to sour it and others use a mixture of brine and vinegar which both sours and preserves the food. The subjects of jars, canning, storage, hygiene, vinegars, labelling, spicing, and brining are also covered. - Pickled Recipe Pages

Chutney Recipe pages: Tomato Chutney, Green Tomato and Chilli Chutney, Mango Chutney, onion jam and more.

There are two main types of these preserves that can be listed under chutneys, pickles and confitures They are all similar in some respects but the main characteristics are:
Confiture: Confit, French roughly translates as "to preserve", is most often applied to the preservation of meats, however, the term can also refer to fruit or vegetables which have been seasoned and cooked with honey or sugar until it has reached a jam-like consistency
Chutney: Generally these chutneys are fruit, vinegar, and sugar cooked down to a reduction. They can be wet or dry.
Pickle: An edible product, such as an onion that has been preserved and flavoured in a solution of brine or vinegar. usually these recipes are chutneys that use smaller cut pieces of the pickled food. - Chutney and pickle recipe pages

Jam recipe pages: Pages referring to the process of jam making including: What is a Jam and how is it made, Blackberry Jam Recipe, What Jam Making Equipment do I Need, What are the pectin levels in fruit and jam making tips.

The term jam refers to a product made with whole fruit, cut into pieces or crushed. The fruit is heated with water and sugar to activate the pectin in the fruit. This is the basis of all fruit jam making. Jams can be made from almost all fruits that are in season that means if you can see enough of it you can easily make a great cheap and delicious food out of healthy fresh and locally sourced foods. - Jam making Recipe Pages

Baking recipe pages: Pages about the baking process referring to the process of convection cooking including: Bread, Naan, Apple Crumble, Hot Date Pudding, Creme Brulee, Lemon Drizzle Cake, Victoria Sponge Recipe and more .

The term baking refers to any food cooked in a conventional convection oven and is one of the oldest forms of cooking. If you want desserts, cakes and breads then - Baking Recipe Pages

Hot Recipe and main meal pages Recipes included are: How to make beef and Pearl barley Stew, Recipe for Tabouli, Woolton Pie Recipe,Wassail Punch Recipe, Naan Bread Recipe, Quick sausage roll Recipe and more . . 

A selection of recipes that would be for or part of the main meal. The recipes are a mixture of meat and vegitarian foods and include salads which are not often hot Hot Recipe and main meal pages

Dessert Recipe pages: Recipes included are: Apple Crumble, Hot Date Pudding, Creme Brulee, Lemon Drizzle Cake, Victoria Sponge Recipe and more . . .

You can't beat a good pudding. There are so many types hot, cold, warm, fruity, stodgy the list is long. most of the things you can find on the super market are easily made from simple ingredients that you probably have. Add this to the amazing flavours you can find using your own ingredients make dessert recipes one of meals everyone should try and cook once. - Dessert Recipe pages

Cream Recipe pages: Pages referring to the process of cream making including: How to make fresh cream, How to make ice cream, Clotted Cream Recipe, Baked Alaska Recipe, Ice cream cake and more . . .

Fresh cream is always made from fresh milk and once created can be used to make all of these familiar cream dishes. From the wonderful baked Alaska "the Norwegian Omlette" to freshly made ice cream. Anyone for scones and clotted cream! - Cream Recipe pages

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