How to

How to

How To make ham hock terrine

This is a recipe that can be dressed up or down for any occasion. Ham hock terrine or jambon persillé (parsley ham) can be made into an elegant layered terrine fit for a king’s table, or simply set in a rustic bowl.

Chop chop

Chop chop

Take a Knife Skills class

Elena Cho spends a pleasant evening splicing and dicing – perfecting her knife skills at the highly regarded L’Atelier des Chefs cookery school in London.

 

Roll your own

Roll your own

How To make a swiss roll

Swiss roll is an ingenious cake: it has the ‘ah’ factor worthy of the most elaborate gateau, yet it’s simply a light-as-air sponge rolled up with jam. Like a lot of good things, less is more, and it requires just four everyday ingredients – caster sugar, plain flour, eggs and jam. But it’s how you use them that counts.

Great Danes

Great Danes

How to make Danish pastries

Follow our step-by-step guide to mastering the art of how to make Danish pastries – they’re well worth the effort. As you bite into the warm, butter-rich dough, crisp with almonds or melting with vanilla custard, you’ll thank us.

Gardening guide

Gardening guide

Grow Your Own

Here's our guide to growing your own fruit and vegetables. Save yourself a small fortune by buying what costs a lot in the shops.

  1. Grow Your Own Special

Demystifying fish

Demystifying fish

Julian Biggs’ guide to cooking fish

The head chef of the Hix Oyster & Fish House in Lyme Regis demystifies piscine cuisine by sharing some tried and tested methods for cooking fish.

  1. What you can do to help fish stocks

How to

How to

How to make jam

You don’t need any special culinary skills for this: making jam is a wonderful task and a relatively simple process.

  1. Jam recipes

How To

How To

How To make gravy

No roast dinner is perfect without a jug of glossy, velvety gravy. Here’s how to make superb gravy – even if you’re a veggie!

  1. Whisky gravy

Useful guide

Useful guide

Cooking conversion tables

In this handy section, you'll find oven temperatures, weights for dry ingredients, liquid measures and tablespoon conversions for the UK, US and Australia – all in one tidy place.

Bread

Bread

How to make bread

Nothing beats homemade bread, and it’s a lot easier to make than you might think. Master the basic white loaf, then try the easy flavoured breads. Before you know it, you'll be giving Delia a run for her money!

  1. Home-made bread recipes

Chutney

Chutney

How to make chutney

Commercially produced jars of ‘English-style’ chutney have been known to put people off for life, but a proper homemade chutney will have you hooked (and never fails to impress). Check out this step-by-step guide.

Make a favourite

Make a favourite

How To make tagine

Central to North African cuisine, tagines are easy to make but use ingredients that may be unfamiliar to you. Our simple guide unlocks the mystery of this Moroccan classic.

Meat Guide

Meat Guide

Meat

Our meat guide explains the best beef, pork and lamb cuts, plus tips on roasting meat, slow cooking, pan-frying, grilling and griddling.

  1. How To make meat stock
  2. How To make gravy

Cheap eats

Cheap eats

Know your beans: How to spot store, soak and cook beans and pulses

When you’re watching your spending, dried beans and pulses make perfect sense. Here's tips and recipes on how to make the best use of these storecupboard staples.

Taste better than they sound

Taste better than they sound

How To make cakes from vegetables

Carrot cake is such a popular recipe we thought we’d give you the ultimate version, plus more moist and moreish cakes – all using garden vegetables. Don't knock them until you've tried them.

Baking recipes and tips

Baking recipes and tips

Baking recipes and tips

Put on your pinny, dust your rolling pin with flour and get baking. Everybody's doing it. To help you prepare, we have a plethora of baking advice, cake and bread recipes, recommended bakeware, and even baking classes for those of you wanting to hone your skills.

  1. Baker’s dozen: 13 essential bakeware items

Bakeware

Bakeware

Baker’s dozen: 13 essential bakeware items

If there’s one trend that’s captured the nation’s imagination recently, it’s baking. Here’s the delicious. magazine baking guide to the essential kit for novices and keen cooks alike.

Make your own

Make your own

How To make granola

Bring out your inner earth mother by whipping up a batch of wholesome granola. Many ready-made versions are high in fat and sugar, but a few simple tweaks make ours a healthier but no less special breakfast. 

  1. Crunchy nutty granola

How To

How To

How To make soufflés

Soufflés can strike fear into the most accomplished cook, but follow our step-by-step guide and once you know the rules, they’ll rise to the occasion every time.

Make your own

Make your own

How To make marmalade

Making marmalade is a pure joy and brings with it that warm feeling of having several jars sitting in the larder to see you through the year. As well as giving a luxurious start to the day, it’s as cheap as chips to make.

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