Full Description
This book describes 30 traditional Cornish festivals and recent revivals, linking them imaginatively with traditional dishes and modern feasts using local ingredients. Each festival is illustrated with a quirky, fun illustration and accompanying recipe, old or new. For each recipe there is a photo of the finished dish. The book provides a lively, sometimes idiosyncratic, look at Cornish history, folklore, food and customs. It guides you around the county and enables you to cook your own Cornish feast.
Contents
Introduction; Notes for the Cook; Twelfth Night + Twelfth Day cake; St Hilary's Day + Whole cauliflower soup with smoked paprika oil; Shrove Tuesday + Penzance seafood pancakes; Hurling Match at St Columb Major + Heavy cake; St Piran's Day + Cornish pasties; Good Friday + Saffron hot cross buns; Trevithick Day in Camborne + Spotted Dick; May Day + Syllabub; Padstow 'Obby 'Oss + Mussels in saffron cream; Helston Flora Day + Wild herb tart; Beating the Parish Bounds on Rogation Day + Elderflower cordial; Bugle Band Contest + Cornish tea bread; Golowan + Summer fruit shortcakes; Bodmin Riding + Riding ale casserole; The Knill Ceremony at St Ives + Paper 'pasties' with hake and onions; St Endellion Music Festival + Spiced cherries; Goldsithney Charter Fair + Cornish fairings; Tea Treats and Sunday School Outings + Cornish cream tea; Newlyn Fish Festival + Marinated mackerel; The Cornish Gorsedd + Cornish under-roast; Michaelmas + Extra rich bramble and apple pie; Harvest Time: Crying the Neck + Poppy seed roll; Callington Honey Fair + Matheglyn tart; The Nelson Thanksgiving Service at Madron + Hedgerow relish; Allantide: Nos Calan Gwaf + Penzance apple cake; St Just Feast + Pigeon pie; Montol + Spicy parsnip, squash and apple soup with hog's pudding croutons; Tom Bawcock's Eve + Star gazy pie; Nadelik Lowen + Yule log; New Year's Eve: Wassail + Hot spiced cider; Further Reading; Places to Visit
