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Prep: 15 mins Difficulty: More Effort Cook: 40 mins Makes: 1 Litre   Ingredients 200g demerara sugar 200ml cider vinegar 100ml perry (pear cider) 1 star anise 1 tsp ground cumin 2 red onions, chopped 1 tsp grated ginger 10 firm pears, peeled and chopped into bite-sized pieces ...

Prep: 25 mins Difficulty: Easy No Cook Serves: 12   Ingredients 12 ready-made vanilla cupcakes or fairy cakes, or make your own 2 x 410g cans apricot halves in light syrup, drained (save the syrup) 100g raspberry jam a little icing sugar or cornflour, for dusting 500g pack ...

October is the month when meat is abundant, when hearty casseroles and stews, as well as pies and savoury puddings appear in Restaurants menus. In my days as a chef I was often given pheasants, or venison and sometime wild boar to cook for parties of hunters. In the 60s and 70s there were some ...

With the warmer days of September passed, the autumn has now definitely arrived. Temperatures have dropped and it is a lot colder. It’s a beautiful colourful time of year, with the trees changing colour. Sometimes it may seem pointless raking, when the wind blows even more leaves onto the lawn, ...

Eighteen minutes after takeoff a plane crashes into the Atlantic and only two people survive, a middle aged man and a four-year-old boy. As rescuers search for wreckage and bodies, an investigation into what happened is just beginning. Narrated in the present, in interconnected chapters, ...

For those of us who live and work in Cranleigh and the surrounding areas, we can probably remember the time when we fell in love with the place. We live in an area of stunning natural beauty. It could have been a gradual process or an immediate one. Perhaps you were born here and still live in ...