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Pistachio & Cherry Financiers

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Dame Elaine Mahon shares her recipe for a delicious pistachio financier with a cherry nested inside and pistachio crème diplomate. Perfect to celebrate St Patrick’s Day! Ingredients 240g beurre noisette120g…

Rhubarb, Stem Ginger and Custard pies

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Dame Helen Collier, pastry chef and food writer, celebrates Pie Week 2025 with this luscious pairing of of rhubarb and stem ginger in  a custard pie. INGREDIENTS Sweet Pie Dough400g plain…

Cottage cheese pancakes

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Dame Jen GreenhalghA delicious twist on traditional pancakes, just in time for Pancake Day. Perfect for one meal or make the whole batch and keep half in the fridge to…

Daddy Howell’s Welsh cakes

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Dame Kate Howell A proud Welsh member of our Chapter, Kate shares her Dad’s recipe for traditional Welsh Cakes ahead of St. David’s Day. Try just eating one… Ingredients8oz self…

Passion Fruit Curd

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Dame Cathy Sloman A little treat to tickle your fancy for Valentine’s day – what could be better than some passion fruit for your beloved (or yourself…) Passion fruit should…

Dames Give Back: Cooking Champions

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Dame Cathy Sloman Continuing our Dames Give Back initiative, Dame Clare Donovan invited us to spend time with her and her devoted team at Cooking Champions. Clare founded this food support,…

Where Dames Dine

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As a group of women who’ve made food, drink, and hospitality our business, you’d think we’d take a break now and then from obsessing over where to eat next. But…

Down with the kids

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Award winning food journalist and author, Clare Finney, pays a heartwarming visit to the North Downs farm, Ellie’s Dairy, and finds a place where goats are treated with an extraordinary…