RECOMMENDATIONS

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  Chocolate and vanilla marble cake

  This classic is made using a basic Madeira cake recipe, and Rachel Allen’s version is excellent served with icing sugar or hot chocolate sauce

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  Sweet chilli and cranberry glazed ham with cheesy leeks

  Merrilees Parker makes a gorgeous glazed ham, served with cheesy leek and parsley mash

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  Raspberry swirls

  Rachel Allen’s sticky pastries are a delicious alternative to scones for an afternoon tea

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  Panettone bread and butter pudding

  Galton Blackiston uses panettone to add extra richness to this smart version of a nursery classic, enriched with mixed peel, sultanas and fresh vanilla

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  Creamy potato salad with smoked salmon and crispy soda bread

  This recipe by Matthew Fort offers a wonderful play on differing textures, with soft salmon jazzing up ordinary potato salad

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  Potted sprats

  Mark Houghman’s recipe makes for a simple quick starter or light lunch – if you can’t get sprats, whitebait works well, too

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  Cosmopolitan

  The soulshakers give a fruity twist to the cosmopolitan with Finlandia grapefruit vodka

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  Peppered lamb steak with creamed leeks

  Gary Rhodes' lamb has a sweet redcurrant jelly glaze and is served with butter and cream-enriched leeks

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  Magic beans

  Allegra McEvedy prepares a toothsome mezze dish of green beans slowly cooked with plenty of garlic, herbs, and lemon juice

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  Skate wing with black butter

  Hot, flavoured butter poured over sweet skate makes an easy yet impressive mid-week fish supper.