Tried & tested recipes

3:12pm Wednesday 9th July 2003

Hutton Roof’s annual fell race teas are legendary – the piles of cakes, buns and biscuits as high as the mountains the runners have just mastered.

And the ladies who make them are so accommodating. When there was a complaint last year that there weren’t enough iced confections, the home bakers rallied to the cause and iced just about everything in sight for this year’s mammoth fell trek.

“I think the ladies would have iced their husbands as well if they’d been stood still long enough,” said Hutton Roof postmistress Anne Huntington.

As a result of the popularity of the fell race teas, the village hall committee decided to compile a fund-raising recipe book. But as well as confectionery, villagers were also invited to contribute a range of savoury dishes.

The result is the super little spiral-bound Hutton Roof and Newbiggin Village Recipe Book which retails at a mere £4 and is all in a good cause – the village hall.

Anne has put pen to paper and contributed some delightful sketches for the cookbook. She is also handling sales of this fine little tome.

The thing about these sort of recipe collections is that people don’t want to let the side down so they always suggest a dish that’s tried and tested – and that’s good news for whoever buys the book because you are guaranteed success every time.

Nice to see a selection of recipes from my old mate, food technology teacher Hilary Bull - mushroom cappuccino soup, red fruit and port compote, for example.

Gazette picture editor Steve Barber also spotted the ‘Ashwell Lasagne’ from his friend Anthony Chaplow. We were a little concerned about one of his ingredients, however, a packet of chicken noodle soup!

Also, just a little reminder about Angela Evans’s contribution - it’s not her fault but, unfortunately, omitted from the ingredients are the fish fillets – a rather vital component for ‘fish in spicy tomato sauce’.

Other recipes include Hot Spicy Burglars (not a printing error in this case), Sticky Ginger Chicken, Rhubarb Tarte Tatin, Baby Biscuits, Bulks Bars, Jewel Cake and Imogen’s Aga Brownies.

The book is available price £4 from Hutton Roof post office and by post price £5 (inc p&p) from Anne Huntington, Hutton Rood PO, LA6 2PG.

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