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New preserve producer using fructose
Baby Luke goes Bananas!	By CeciliaC on Tuesday, June 27, 2006

Friendly Food & Drink has recently been set up by Geoff Monkman and Lorraine Stobbart. They ...

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If pesticides were purple....
On the farm at Howbarrow	By Paul Hughes on 6/27/2006

The rain has freshened everything up, polytunnel vines now in full leaf with fruit setting, providin ...

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Olde Smokey
Historic Food - Ivan Day	By historicfood on 6/23/2006

Meat slowly smoked in the hooded chimneys of Lakeland farmhouses was an important element of the local diet for centuries.

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For the third time this year we will have to buy water......
On the farm at Howbarrow	By Paul Hughes on 6/7/2006

Our spring continues to come and go! The recent dry, sunny weather has taken our spring to a trickle ...

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Braving the Solway winds....
Annette Gibbons	By Annette Gibbons on 5/29/2006

The weather promised some bright periods so we threw caution to the wind, and there's plenty of tha ...

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Swedish fish – children's favourite
Baby Luke goes Bananas!	By CeciliaC on Monday, May 29, 2006

My little nieces and nephew were visiting from Sweden last weekend and I cooked a childhood cod favo ...

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Update from Howbarrow
On the farm at Howbarrow	By Paul Hughes on 5/18/2006

The new polytunnels are complete! The fantastic weather last week gave us that sunny, windless day a ...

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Bulgar wheat wonder
Baby Luke goes Bananas!	By CeciliaC on Friday, April 28, 2006

I've never really gotten into couscous – not sure why. But having discovered its bigger gr ...

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Oyster Sausages make a comeback in Cumbria
Historic Food - Ivan Day	By historicfood on 4/18/2006

Ivan Day revives an ancient British recipe with Andrew Sharp's Herdwick mutton and the finest Colchester oysters.

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Delectible leg of lamb
Baby Luke goes Bananas!	By CeciliaC on Monday, April 10, 2006

This recipe for roast leg of lamb comes from my mother and is absolutely delicious! Apparently it's origin is Russian.

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