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When I was a little boy, my favourite thing to do in the world was to visit my grandmother, every Sunday, after church. We’d pull into the drive, in the bottle-green Morris Minor, and my father would step up to the door, heavy boots re- sounding on the porch, and rap the big, brass knocker with ...

Prep: 45 mins Cook: 10 mins (plus 1 hr macerating) Difficulty: Easy Makes: 8 Ingredients 300g self-raising flour ½ tsp baking powder 70g cold butter, cut into small cubes 30g golden caster sugar zest 2 lemons 150ml buttermilk 2 tbsp full-fat milk For the fruit 3 tbsp Pimm's 1 tbsp ...

Prep: 15 mins Cook: 15 mins Difficulty: Easy Serves: 2 Ingredients 2-3 Maris Piper potatoes (about 400g/ 14oz), peeled and coarsely grated 1 medium egg, beaten 1 tsp plain flour ¼ tsp baking powder ½ small onion, finely chopped 6 sage leaves, 2 finely chopped, 4 whole 3 tbsp sunflower or ...

Prep: 25 mins Cook: 10 mins (plus six hours chilling) Difficulty: Moderately Easy Serves: Makes 2 x 500ml Jellies (each serves 6) Ingredients 16 gelatine leaves 1.2l full-fat milk 200g peaches, fresh or from a can, drained 200g icing sugar yellow, pink, purple and orange food colouring ...

“A few months ago I found myself at the Royal Surrey, for 2 different investigations, with appointment times several hours apart. I was there to have a kidney scan at 9am, and an investigative examination at 4.30pm later that same day. Rather than stay at the hospital all day and wait between ...

Joshua gazed down at the weighty gun in his hands and felt a heavy feeling settling in his gut. It looked absurdly disproportionate, held in his spindly, pale fingers. “Girl’s hands”, the other men liked to tease. He walked over to the other side of his bunk and reflected on his damp ...