Granny Dumplins

Recipes created, tested and sent in by Granny Dumplin for Allotment Growing. Granny Dumplin is the ‘net name’ of an award winning retired chef who has cooked for royalty. Granny D has developed and tested these recipes, which are designed to be simple enough for the layman. They use fresh ingredients and even some free ingredients you can find in the hedgerows.
  • Recipe for Marrow Jam

    MARROWS - They are big, beautiful & bountiful in the autumnal season. But dear oh dear what can we do with them all? A simple, no fuss recipe from Granny (who might be a top chef)

  • Recipe for Marrow and Tomato Gratin

    A filling vegetarian gourmet meal.

  • Recipe for Marrow and Parsley Cream Crumble

    Another great recipe for Marows from ‘Grandma Dumplin’

  • Recipe for Cream of Cucumber soup

    Bored with trying to come up with uses for all your home grown cucumbers now the salad seasons over? This soup will help.

  • Recipe for Buttered cucumber with dill

    A delicious dish that only takes 10 minutes to make.

  • Recipe for Cucumber Mayonnaise

    A cold sauce for white fish that could not be easier to make.

  • Recipe for Stew in a Pumpkin Shell

    An ideal recipe for Guy forks or Halloween or any autumn gathering.

  • Recipes for Pumpkin Cheesecake

    If you like cheesecake (and who doesn’t?) then you’ll love this dish.

  • Recipe for Chocolate & Beetroot Cake

    This is a lovely moist chocolate cake and it doesn’t taste of beets (promise)

  • Recipe for Spicy Beets & Carrots

    Beetroot and carrots combined into a gourmet dish

  • Recipe for Roasted Parsnips with an Irish Whiskey and Seed Mustard Glaze

    Parsnips are a wonderful vegetable and this sophisticated recipe makes them a really special treat - maybe for Christmas?

  • Recipe for Curried Creamed Parsnip Crumble

    A great recipe for a creamy parsnip crumble

  • Recipe for Swede on a stick

    A most unusual recipe for the vegetable that usually gets the boring award!

  • Recipe for Swede baked with Cheshire Cheese

    Transform a common vegetable into a gourmet dish

  • Recipe for Savoury Swede Pudding

    Try this savoury pudding. Puddings have been a staple of English cuisine for hundreds of years - it’s only recently that the term has come to mean sweet.