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Prep: 15 mins Cook: 3 hours (plus resting) Difficulty: Easy Serves: 10 - 12 Ingredients. 3 1/2 kg boneless tied gammon joint (check with your butcher if it needs to be soaked) 2 carrots, halved 2 celery sticks, halved 2 leeks, quartered 2 onions, halved 2 bay leaves 2 tsp peppercorns ...

Prep: 20 mins Cook: 35 mins Difficulty: Easy Serves: 8 Ingredients. 200g butter, plus extra for greasing 300g golden caster sugar 4 large eggs 75g plain flour 50g cocoa powder 410g can pears halves in juice, drained 100g plain dark choclate (70% cocoa solids) 25g flaked almonds ...

Margery came to Cranleigh, to enjoy the peaceful and friendly atmosphere of our beloved village, 22 years ago, following her husband’s death. She and her husband had been married for 54 years, having met in 1939 when they both arrived for a dance that had been cancelled. The two started chatting, ...

Ask any junior school child in Cranleigh what ‘Open the Book’ is and they will tell you - but for those of you who don’t know . . . Open the Book is a Churches together in Cranleigh group and what we do is each week we go into Cranleigh CofE Primary, Park Mead and Cuthbert Mayne assemblies and act ...

It was nearly time. Henry’s nose was pressed against the bedroom window, his breath steaming up the glass. He watched his mum crunching over the snowy driveway towards the car, toss the shopping bags on the passenger seat and drive away. Dad was snoozing on the sofa downstairs. His big sister, ...

For the past seven years Cranleigh has invited people to its own Community Christmas Day lunch. This was held at Cranleigh Baptist Church for a few years and at St Nicolas Church in the past two. It is an occasion brimming with the joy of Christmas and not only gives the opportunity for everyone ...