Belling and Brian Turner campaign to Bring Back Grannies’ Recipes
Send us your favourite British recipes
One in five children today don’t know the main ingredients in toad-in-the-hole and shepherd’s pie new research by Belling has revealed.
What’s more, there is a distinct generation gap emerging when it comes to meal-time preferences with the nations under 35’s turning their back on traditional British dishes such as stew, steak and kidney pie, bubble and squeak and faggots at mealtimes, instead preferring to rustle up Italian and Chinese meals in the kitchen.
To help keep British grub on our dinner time menus, this British Food Fortnight (19th September to 2nd October 2009), Belling is calling out to people across the UK to ‘Bring Back Grannies’ Recipes’ by donating their favourite family British recipe for possible inclusion in a brand new online cook book.
To share your family recipe with the nation and have it recorded in history for years to come, all that you need to do is provide us with the following information.
- Your name
- Your age
- Your home town
- Your email address and contact telephone number
- Your recipe
- A picture of you with the dish
Deadline for entries is 31st December 2009. You will be contacted by 15th January 2009 if your recipe has made it into the online book.
Email us with your information today.
Celebrity chef, Brian Turner, said: ‘There is no doubt that our tastes are changing and new influences have made a huge impact on the food that children are eating today. Whilst exploring new dishes and flavours is a fantastic way to get children interested in food, there are many delicious traditional British recipes that have played a huge role in our country’s history and it would be a huge shame if these ever died out.
‘Sharing and cooking long-standing family recipes is a great way to get children re-interested in our country’s classics and encourage them to try new things. Teaching kids the basics of cooking in schools is also extremely important and will get children interested in ingredients and where our food comes from at a young age. After all either at home or in the classroom, there is no harm in putting a modern spin on traditional British recipes by incorporating new ingredients to suit today's tastes.
'It is a real shame to see our traditional recipes, such as shepherd’s pie and toad-in-the-hole, losing out in the popularity stakes and I really hope that this campaign will go a long way in bringing some old time favourites back on to the menu in homes across the country.'
E mail in your recipe.