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Pub Desserts

Apple and Blackberry Crumble: A Make-Ahead Recipe — Cook the fruit and bake the topping separately, then combine them for the final oven stage.
Bread and Butter Pudding: Recipe and Custard Guide — Make bread and butter pudding by layering buttered bread and fruit, adding egg-and-dairy custard, soaking and baking.
Make-Ahead Pub Desserts: A Practical Guide — Sticky toffee pudding, bread and butter pudding, fruit crumble, and treacle tart are strong make-ahead pub desserts.
Sticky Toffee Pudding With Warm Date Cake — Sticky toffee pudding is a warm date cake with toffee sauce.

Beer-Battered Fish and Chips That Stay Crisp — For crisp beer-battered fish and chips, rinse cut potatoes to remove surface starch, dry them thoroughly, fry once at 325°F (165°C), then finish at 375°F…
Pub-Style Cottage Pie With a Crisp Potato Top — For a pub-style cottage pie, brown 2 pounds (900 g) minced beef in two batches, simmer it with diced vegetables, flour and 2½ cups (600 ml) stock until a…
Stout-Braised Beef Pie With Crisp Puff Pastry — For a stout-braised beef pie with crisp pastry, brown 2 pounds (900 g) beef chuck, soften onions and carrots, add flour, then braise with 12 ounces (355…

Pub-Style Onion Gravy: Deep Flavor, No Packet — To make pub-style onion gravy, cook 1⅓ pounds (600 g) sliced onions in 3 tablespoons (43 g) butter and 1 tablespoon oil until softened for 8–10 minutes,…