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Fried elderblossom

May 24, 2018 laura Leave a Comment

May is the best-behaved month in the British calendar, and this year it has been especially generous with cloudless blue skies:  quite dangerously so, as we risk growing accustomed to them.  The ubiquitous Sambucus nigra  is responding with a … [Read more...]

Edible flowers, Elderflower, Ingredients, Posts, Recipes, Seasonal, Spring, Summer, Sweet

Cook it with flowers: chocolate rose cake, and tips for making pretty salads

June 1, 2017 laura Leave a Comment

June is the month of longest days, of herbaceous borders, roses and elderflower, of picnics, garden teas, barbecues and al fresco  drinks – any excuse to eat and imbibe outside while we can. Even on those inevitable rainy days (this is English … [Read more...]

Articles, Chocolate, Edible flowers, Elderflower, Lettuces and salad leaves, Recipes, Rose, Strawberries, Sweet cake recipes, salads

Elderflowers: champagne, cordial and a cake

July 1, 2015 laura Leave a Comment

There’s just time to make one more batch of elderflower cordial and champagne, with their inimitable fragrance of English summer – floral, yet also a little wild and very slightly musty. Nothing drinkable is more evocative of our hedgerows and … [Read more...]

Edible flowers, Elderflower, Ingredients, Lemon, Places, Posts, Recipes, Seasonal, Spring, Summer, Sweet cake recipes, summer drinks, wild foods

A Midsummer Night’s Eve potion

June 21, 2015 laura Leave a Comment

Elderflower Rose Cooler

There is something so magical about Midsummer Night’s Eve that it calls for a potion -- something drawn from Shakespeare's green world to induce dreams of love and pagan revelry, safely resolved with all the right embraces after a dalliance with … [Read more...]

Cucumber, Edible flowers, Elderflower, Gin, Ingredients, Mint, Places, Posts, Recipes, Rose, Seasonal, Strawberries, Summer alcohol-free drinks, cocktails, coolers, Jonsak, Midsummer celebrations, Midsummer Night's Dream, Midsummer Night's Eve, Norway Midsummer, rose lemonade, Sankthansaften, summer punch, summer solstice

What you will find here

Crumbs on the Table  is a food blog with tested recipes, and stories about food.  I aim to share the best recipes I know, and something of their context: the places they come from, … More

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Featured recipes

Napoli bream with pink peppercorns, coriander seeds and rosemary

Tuscan-style grape and walnut harvest bread

South African malva pudding with coconut and rum

Citrus jelly with passionfruit

Sweet potato quesadillas

Rhubarb sponge crumble

Asparagus and pea ravioli

Coffee crème caramel 

Apricot pie

Garlic soufflé

Fish with grilled cucumber

Baked gooseberry caramel pudding

Chocolate rose cake

Sicilian vanilla gelato

Celery, stilton and sage tart

Fresh coconut cake and cream pie

Duck legs braised with beans and herbs

Roasted tomato soupRoasted tomato soup with coconut milk

Chez Panisse almond tart

Dobosh torteDobosh torte step-by-step

IMG_9245Baked chicken with potato, tomato and parmesan

Chocolate pots de crème

Peach and prosciutto panzanella

banana chocolate chip barBanana chocolate chip bars

Roast potato, chicken and bacon salad

Norwegian waffles

MK's Profiterole PontresinaProfiteroles Pontresina

Bong's chicken with artichokes

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I share with you here some of the cookbooks, blogs, food memoirs, and other culinary writings I have found most delicious, intriguing, and helpful over the years.  This … More

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