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Food Producers

 About Food
It is the UK’s largest directory of fine food producers and retailers

Alcumlow Hall
Farm Shop and wholesale supplier of turkey, chicken, geese and duck to hotels, pubs, inns, restaurants, retailers and other farm shops.  Situated near Little Moreton Hall in Cheshire.

 Ansteys of Worcester
Traditional cheesemakers and other fine foods

 Barbers
Somerset farmhouse cheese makers

 Beer Mad
Everything you want to know about beer!

 Belton Cheese
Belton Cheese are an independant cheese dairy in the heart of the Cheshire cheese making country

 Elizabeth Botham & sons
Whitby baker who sells on-line

 H S Bourne
The Bourne family have been hand-making fine Cheshire cheese since 1930.

 Carmichael Estate Farm Meats
The Carmichael farm lands are upland farm units in southern Scotland producing traditional meat products from hill grass-fed stock and conserved home-grown feed. No hormone implants, growth promoters or other artificial feed additives are used.

 Caws Cenarth Cheese
The longest established Welsh Farmhouse Caerphilly cheese makers in Wales

 Chatsworth Farm Shop
The Duchess of Devonshire established the Chatsworth Farm Shop in 1977 as an outlet for the estate's beef and lamb. Since then it has grown to become a recognised leader in speciality foods from British producers.

 The Cotswold Gourmet
Meat from rare breeds

 Fletchers of Auchtermuchty
Suppliers of venison

 Food from Britain
Regional food and drink

 Food Lovers Britain
Henrietta Green's guide to buying food and much more besides

 Grasslands Farm Shop
Free Range Farmers, Butchers and Caterers.

 Growing Concern Organic Farm
A true organic farm in the heart of Leicestershire.

 Hayles Fruit Farm
Hayles Fruit Farm is a working farm in the Cotswolds that welcomes visitors from around the world.

 Isle of Mull Cheese
"Isle of Mull Cheese" is a traditional artisan farmhouse cheese.

 Jamesfield Organic Farm
Organic meat, veg and free range products. Producers of prime Scottish organic beef, lamb, turkey, free range pork and chicken

 Last Orders
On-line off license

 Llangloffan Farmhouse Cheese
Leon and Joan Downey's famous real cheese

 Lobster.co.uk
Aiming to be the Harrods food hall of cyberspace

 Local Food Web
A directory of good local food

 Loch Fyne
Set deep in the heart of Argyll, Scotland, Loch Fyne specialises in premium quality fresh and smoked fish, shellfish, Scottish meat and game, all available direct and on-line.

 Northfield Farm
Naturally reared meats

 Old Macdonalds
Organic meat from Scotland

 Organics Direct
Organic food and drinky

 Organic Roots
Supliers of organic products of all types

 Patrick and Brooksbank
Well worth a visit if you're near the delightful historic market town of Ashbourne (Derbyshire).  Excellent Bakewell tarts, huge selection of specialist cheeses and handmade chocolates from Brugge.

 Partridges
Sloane Street food shop selling Applebys Cheshire (the only real Cheshire left ).

 The Real Meat Company
They claim to produce the safest, kindest, tastiest meat available anywhere.

 Savoria
Traditional artisanal food from the best producers in Italy

 Jack Scaife
Keighley butcher, whoe sends his traditional bacon all over the world.

 Simply Organic
Home delivery of organic food

 Speciality Foods
UK gourmet food and drink, from Food from Britain

 Swaddles
Organic meat and produce delivered to most of the UK

 Traidcraft
The UK's widest range of fair trade products

 Toptable.co.uk
Britain's largest online restaurant booking network. They have at least 43,580 covers at over 600 restaurants nationwide - everything from intimate neighbourhood bistros to top Michelin starred establishments.

 Thorntons
For chocolates and toffee

 Virgin Net Food and Drink channel.
Get the low-down on the best pubs, restaurants and bars all over the country

 Welsh Hook Meat Centre
Meat reared on Organic Pembrokeshire Farms in natural, stress free environments

 Wine and co
Wine for the UK

 Woodlands Farm
Wholesale and Retail Suppliers of Organic Vegetables and Organic Bronze Turkeys grown and reared on our Soil Association Registered Farm near Kirton, Boston, Lincolnshire.

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Internet Recipes

 All about Food
The largest UK fine food and drink resource and directory

 All Recipes
American site with large number of recipes

BBC: Food
Advice and recipes

Chinese cookery
For lovers of Chinese food

Cook's Thesaurus
When you've run out of that vital ingredient

Cucina Direct
Kitchenware and recipes

 Delia Smith
New and old recipes from Delia.

 Eat Drink Dine
Guide to matching food with wine

EPICURIOUS: Food, Drink, Cooking, and Recipes
More than 10,000 recipes

 Food n Drink
Restaurant guide, recipes, tips and much more

 Helen Gaffney
Internet food magazine, recipes and where to get ingredients and eat good food

 Great British Kitchen
Excellent site of British recipies and more

 Minute Meals
Recipes for quick meals

 Recipe Exchange
American recipe swap site!

 Recipe Land
Thousands of recipes

 The Reluctant Gourmet
Informative tips, tales, techniques and recipes

 Square Meal
News and restaurant guide

 Veggie Heaven
Over 230 of the tastiest vegetarian and vegan recipes, news, the leading UK vegetarian restaurant guide, amazing facts and figures - and lots more.

 Veg Source
Information and recipes for vegetarians

 Veg Web
Recipes and information for vegetarians

 Yum Yum
Includes section for students!


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Christmas Recipes

Christmas Recipe .com
Christmas Recipes

 Kate.net
More ideas about what to do with the turkey!

 Sainsbury's
Christmas food and drink

 Vegan Christmas
Christmas recipes for vegetarians

 Veg Source
More Christmas ideas for vegetarians

 Waitrose
Festive feasts!


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My own recipes

Here are 3 different toffee sauces for ice-cream:

Toffee sauce 1

3 oz of muscavado sugar
2 oz of butter
3 tbs. single cream

Gently heat until melting and bubbling.

Toffee sauce 2

2 oz butter
3 oz soft brown sugar
2 oz of ordinary sugar
5 oz golden syrup
A few drops of vanilla essence
4 oz evaporated milk

Heat and dissolve ingredients first 5 ingredients for 5 minutes, then add the evaporated milk, stir, warm through and serve

Toffee sauce 3

4 oz marshmallows
2 tbs. milk
4 oz butter
3 oz soft brown sugar

Mix all the ingredients and gradually bring to the boil, then simmer for 5 minutes.
Keep some back and try some the next day when it is cold - it's different again!

If you're getting fed up of toffee try my:

Orange and raisin sauce

Add 2 cinnamon sticks and a hand full of raisins to half a pint of orange juice and simmer together for 10 minutes or so.  Remove the cinnamon sticks and thicken with some cornflour.  Pour warm sauce over vanilla ice cream.

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This cake will keep well (if you don't eat it!)

Sadie's Ginger Cake

3ozs butter,

3ozs lard (could use more butter if preferred)

4ozs syrup

4ozs black treacle

8ozs demerara sugar

10ozs S.R. flour

3 level teaspoons ginger

2 eggs

5 fl.ozs milk

 
Melt fats, sugar,& syrup and stir in flour & ginger.

Add beaten eggs & milk .

Bake (in a 2lb loaf tin) for one to one hour, 15 minutes at Gas 2-3, 320 oF or 160 oC.

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