Recipes

Autumn brings the hedgerows around Chaos Cottage alive with rosehips, and one of our favourite ways to use them is this simple homemade rosehip syrup. Made with freshly foraged rosehips, water and sugar, this traditional autumn recipe produces a beautifully fruity syrup that can be diluted with water as a cordial, drizzled over puddings or stirred into other seasonal recipes.

A favourite September bake packed with apples, nuts and dark chocolate. This easy autumnal loaf is also a delicious way to make use of those windfall apples gathering beneath the trees.

Fresh lime, creamy cheese and soft butter combine to create our favourite cream cheese frosting. It's wonderfully smooth, easy to make and the perfect finishing touch for cakes, muffins and traybakes.

Wonderfully moist, gently spiced and topped with our favourite citrus cream cheese frosting, a great quick alternative to Our Favourite Courgette Cake. Great for lunchboxes, picnics and with a cup of Yorkshire tea!

Wonderfully moist, gently spiced and topped with our favourite citrus cream cheese frosting, this has become one of our late-summer traditions here at Chaos Cottage and is one of our favourite ways to use the annual glut of courgettes. It freezes beautifully and is just as lovely served with a cup of Yorkshire tea as it is for birthdays and gatherings.

Chaos Cottage Blackcurrant Jam - There are some recipes I experiment with every year, and then there are the ones I keep coming back to. This is one of them.