Contents Introduction................................................................................................................................................................3 Foreword ....................................................................................................................................................................3 Recipe 1: Braised Brisket of Welsh Black Beef with Wild Fungi ...............................................................................4 Recipe 2: Cranberry and Marzipan Christmas Crown ................................................................................................5 Recipe 3: Gooseberry Tart..........................................................................................................................................6 Recipe 4: Capel Brandy Tart .......................................................................................................................................7 Recipe 5: Roast Goose in Orange Sauce.....................................................................................................................8 Recipe 6: Rich Apple Pie .............................................................................................................................................9 Recipe 7: Pheasant in Cider......................................................................................................................................10 Recipe 8: Roasted Best-End of Jacob Lamb with an Apricot and Shallot Compote .................................................11 Recipe 9: Clementines with Lemon and Mint Syrup ................................................................................................12 Recipe 10: Tomato Chutney .....................................................................................................................................13 Recipe 11: Chocolate and Pear Cake........................................................................................................................14 Recipe 12: Welsh Black Beef Sirloin Special .............................................................................................................15 Recipe 13: Boiled Fruit Cake.....................................................................................................................................16 Recipe 14: Pan-Fried Pork Tenderloin with Cider and Honey Poached Leeks .........................................................17 Recipe 15: Cwmcrwth Fish Pie..................................................................................................................................18 Recipe 16: Easy Tomato Soup...................................................................................................................................19 Recipe 17: Leek and Potato Soup.............................................................................................................................20 Recipe 18: Easy Pavlova............................................................................................................................................21 Recipe 19: Cockles and Laverbread Cakes...............................................................................................................22 Recipe 20: Welsh Venison Steaks with Red Wine ....................................................................................................23 Recipe 21: Mustard Chicken.....................................................................................................................................24 Recipe 22: Breakfast Bread Batch ............................................................................................................................25 Recipe 23: Smoked Haddock Kedgeree....................................................................................................................26 Recipe 24: Winter Porridge with Merlin Liqueur .....................................................................................................27 Recipe 25: Dried Fruit Compote ...............................................................................................................................28 Recipe 26: Poached Tywi Sewin ...............................................................................................................................29 Recipe 27: Bara Brith................................................................................................................................................30 Recipe 28: Traditional Roast Welsh Lamb................................................................................................................31 Recipe 29: Tiesen Lap (Baked Cream Cake)..............................................................................................................32 Recipe 30: Pork & Leek Sausage and Broccoli Flan ..................................................................................................33 Recipe 31: Oaty Apple Crumble................................................................................................................................34 Recipe 32: Marros Leek & Cheese Bake ...................................................................................................................35 Recipe 33: LAMB FLORENTINE .................................................................................................................................36 Recipe 34: Winter Raspberries .................................................................................................................................37 Recipe 35: Raisin and Orange Flan ...........................................................................................................................38 Recipe 36: Welsh Cakes............................................................................................................................................39 Recipe 37: Welsh Black Beef and Orange Casserole ................................................................................................40 Recipe 38: Smoked Mackerel Pate...........................................................................................................................41 Recipe 39: Pumpkin Soup.........................................................................................................................................42 Recipe 40: Oaty Fruit Cookies...................................................................................................................................43 Recipe 41: Elderflower Champagne .........................................................................................................................44 Recipe 42: Carmarthen Ham with Asparagus and Hollandaise Sauce .....................................................................45 Recipe 43: Banana Loaf ............................................................................................................................................46 Recipe 44: Almond Cake...........................................................................................................................................47 Recipe 45: Rock Cakes Surprise ................................................................................................................................48 Introduction We would like to welcome everyone to look at and more. We all have the countryside at our Carmarthenshire Farm & Country heart and quality in mind. Holidays Group Recipe Book. We are sure you will find something different to cook using All our properties offer a taste of country life some of our marvelous food products we now waiting for you in a beautiful setting. Whether have in our county. it nestles in the hills, along a river or in a peaceful village, each has a special quality. Our unique collection of properties, managed and hosted by individual owners, range from This Recipe Book is a new venture and we large farmhouses to cosy cottages, country very much hope you will enjoy using it and houses to camping and caravanning, come to visit Carmarthenshire – the Garden sumptuous bed & breakfasts to self catering of Wales. Dewch yn gefnogwr inni ar Facebook Cymerwch gip ar ein gwefan Follow us on Facebook Take a look at our website www.facebook.com/CarmarthenshireFarmHolidays www.carmarthenshirefarms.com Foreword As the onetime editor of a restaurant guide, I Nowhere is that heritage richer than in was once lucky enough to get paid to eat out farmhouse cookery. across the UK. Nice work if you can get it and though there are more downsides than some Carmarthenshire is blessed with a fine larder might imagine (it can be a solitary existence of good things to eat from the land, rivers and and every great meal you have is coast and it remains an agricultural counterbalanced by plenty that are mediocre landscape dotted with the farmhouses that or poor). Eating out in some of the UK’s finest now also play such an important role in our restaurants at someone else’s expense is an offering to the visitor to this part of Wales. experience to be recommended. One thing I They are welcomed into the home to share in quickly learnt is that some of the greatest the beauty of the landscape, the warm culinary pleasures to be had in Britain are to hospitality of the people and, of course, the be found not amongst the starched white delicious and distinctive cooking that goes on linen and meticulous service of “fine dining” in these farmhouse kitchens. This