Recipes are amazing things: there are so many ingredients to choose from, so many combinations to make, so many journeys to take your taste buds on.
In this section you find plenty of inspirational recipes from us, and a few of our reader’s own homemade favourites. We’ll be updating it as often as possible, so it’s always worth checking back to find more mouth-watering recipes.
A rich fruit cake which improves with keeping. This recipe can also be used for a wedding, birthday or other celebration cake.
Just about everyone thinks 'American' these days when they hear the word muffin. They forget the yeast-leavened squat, spongy English muffins, which I am suddenly tempted to try for the first time in ages.
This is a very popular item on the Cranks menu. Garnished with the peppers, the soup is vibrant, fragrant and colourful.
The salad is substantial enough for a lunch, nothing added, and you can set the lentil temperature according to the weather. The goat’s cheese is flashed under the grill until oozing and barely coloured.
Most people think only of sweet crumbles, but here is an exciting savoury crumble incorporating cheese, nuts and seeds in the topping, covering a mixture of vegetables which may be varied with the season.
Cake is an inadequate term for the rich layers of this recipe. It’s just extravagant and looks it. The chocolate mousse, which isn’t really a mousse since it’s made with cocoa powder, is completely delicious served on its own and is much easier to make than a proper mousse.
The Cranks version of a whisked sponge recipe in which a high proportion of eggs to flour and sugar gives it a special texture.
The scones at Cranks are big generous things and we sell about 1500 of them a week. We use an organic wholemeal flour and they are made daily by our night bakers. If you can bear to play around with something so quintessentially English, you could always add some contemporary tidbits. Try dried cherries or cranberries in the sweet scones, or sundried tomatoes, black olives, red onion, or even pumpkin for the cheese scones.
