RedBeard Historic Bakery’s Plain Sourdough Bread

RECIPE BY: John Reid Owner, RedBeard Historic Bakery, Trentham Cook Time 7 hours Servings 3 loaves Ingredients 850ml water 950g organic plain flour 200g stone ground organic wholewheat or wholerye flour 1 cup or 150g of starter 25g Pink Lake or iodised salt Method Roughly mix flour, water and starter by hand in a plastic tub, holding back…

Piper Street Food Co. Hot Cross Buns

PROVIDED BY: PIPER STREET FOOD CO., KYNETON Ingredients: Fruit Soak 125g Currants 125g Raisins 1 Orange – zest & Juice Spice Mix 10g Cinnamon 7g Nutmeg or Mace 7g Ginger 2g White Pepper Dough 500g Plain Flour 275-300g Water 100g Butter – diced 1 Egg – lightly beaten 15g Brown Sugar 10g Salt 5g Dried…

Farmers Arms Butternut Squash & Bean Ragout

PROVIDED BY: FARMERS ARMS HOTEL, DAYLESFORD Ingredients: 2 tbsp vegetable oil 1 large onion, diced 500g butternut pumpkin peeled and diced 4 large cloves garlic, thinly sliced 1 tsp ground cinnamon 1 tsp ground turmeric 2 tsp cumin seeds 1 tsp dried chilli flakes 650g crushed tomato 1 tsp caster sugar 1 can 5 Bean…

Mountain Distilling G&Ts

PROVIDED BY: MICHAEL HARRIS, MOUNTAIN DISTILLING Purchase Mountain Gin online: mountaindistilling.com/shop Ideas for staying in: Use fruits, citrus and herbs from your garden, experiment! Make up simple syrups from spices in your cupboard using 50/50 sugar & water and boil until disolved. Add 10-20mL to your G&T creations Enjoy!

David Willcock’s Tortilla de patatas

RECIPE BY: David Willcocks Chef & Owner, The Surly Goat, Hepburn Springs Some dishes are greater than the sum of their ingredients. This little beauty, is greater than the sum of its two key ingredients…that’s right, count them again, two ingredients. When the recipe is this simple, it really is all about the produce. Forget about…

Annie Smithers’ Green Tomato Pickle

An absolute must in my pantry. This pickle is fantastic with cheddar and thick slices of bread, but even better with grilled haloumi cheese and soft Turkish rolls. Ingredients 2 kg green tomatoes 6 large onions 300gm coarse sea salt 1.2 litres white vinegar, plus extra to blend 1 kg raw sugar 1 teaspoon cayenne…

Alla Wolf-Tasker’s Ragout of Wild Mushrooms

Russians have always been mad about mushrooming, and their literature is full of stories of mushrooming parties. Mushroom season was eagerly anticipated every year, my parents and their friends returning from mushroom-gathering expeditions with boot loads of boxes laden with slippery jacks and pine mushrooms. The tiny ones were most in demand, the chore of…

Annie Smithers’ Tomato Spaghettini

We’re not all as fortunate as Annie to have a selection of heirloom tomatoes in our garden.  While you are here why not seek out Mt Franklin Organics instead? Well known for his heirloom tomatoes and pumpkins, Florian Hofinger of Mt Franklin Organics also supplies a good variety of other seasonal vegetables, herbs and berries.…