Beetroot and Chili Ketchup from Grandma’s Garden

I’m getting quite into ketchup. I mean, I’ve been quite into ketchup since I discovered bacon sandwiches, but it wasn’t until I made my first BBQ sauce that I realised you can improve on the stuff you get in bottles from the supermarket. It wasn’t until Yorkshire Grub’s Blackberry Ketchup that I realised you could…

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Chili Parkin, a Warm Twist on a Yorkshire Classic

Parkin, it turns out, is barely available beyond the borders of our magnificent county. (Well, Lancashire makes some scurrilous claims on it, but we’ll ignore them for now.) Here in Yorkshire, though, parkin is firmly associated with Bonfire Night for reasons that probably stem from Celtic paganism hidden deep in the bedrock of our culture. It’s…

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