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Welcome to Celtnet Recipes — Here you will find thousands of recipes, all catalogued and indexed. In addition you will have access to rcipe-related articles and the recipe discussion forums of this site. As you will note, the site is gaining a new 'look and feel', mostly as it has grown so much that it requires a massive overhaul. Please be patient as the canges slowly trickle through the site. I am hoping that all these changes will serve to make your visit a more pleasant and interesting one.

This page is a portal to the recipes site as a whole. From here you will be able to search the recipes site, get a taste of the articles already written and see a selection of the posts submitted. If you want to browse the recipes then simply click on one of the recipe categories below. I have catalogued the recipes here by meal type, ingredient type, historical period and region of the world. The total number of recipes has now broken the 19000 entry barrier (with African recipes, British Recipes and Wild Food Recipes being the speciality) and there are now 19025 recipes in the database with almost 100 recipes being added every week, so come back often!

You can find links to this site's ancient and historic recipe books here.

As the first page of my recipe site this page gives you a portal into the remainder of the recipe site. The site itself is undergoing a huge re-shaping and I'm hopig to make it far more navigable... So that it's easier for you to find the recipes you need. With over 19000 recipes now in the database (and growing weekly) that's not an easy task. But you can use the links below to navigate to the main sections of this site:

The links on the left of this page will also help you navigate to the main sections of this site. Or, you can use the search box above to look for a particular recipe or search for recipes from a particular historical period, or using a specific ingredient or ingredients. Also to 'whet your appetite' (as it were) you will see a small selection of recipes chosen at random from the entire collection below, as well as a selection of recipe-associated articles presented on this site.

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Recipes sorted by main meal types:

Accompaniments to Main Courses Breads, Cakes and Pastries Breakfast Recipes
Dessert Drinks Main Course
Sauces and Jams Snacks Spice Blend
Starters Weekly Recipe Selection ** Newest Recipes **


Recipes sorted by meal type and main ingredient:

Bean Recipes Beef Recipes Biscuit / Cookie Recipes
Bread Recipes Cake Recipes Cheese Recipes
Chicken Recipes Chilli Recipes Chocolate Recipes
Cocktail Recipes Curry Recipes Egg Recipes
Fish Recipes Fowl Recipes Fruit Recipes
Game Recipes Greens Recipes Herb-based Recipes
Ice Cream and Sorbet Recipes Lamb Recipes Meat Recipes
Milk and Milk-based Recipes Mushroom Recipes Nut Recipes
Offal / Speciality Meats Pasta Recipes Pie Recipes
Pizza Recipes Pork Recipes Potato Recipes
Rice Dishes Salad Recipes Seafood Recipes
Soups Staple Carbohydrate Recipes Recipes for Sweets and Candies
Vegetarian Recipes Wild Food Recipes




Recipes sorted by main cooking method:

Baking Recipes Braising Recipes Brewing Recipes
Crockpot/Slow Cooker Recipes Frying Recipes Grilling and Barbecuing Recipes
Jams, Preserves and Pickles Roasting Recipes Salad Recipes
Sauce Recipes Soup Recipes Steaming Recipes
Recipes for Stews (Stewing)


Recipes sorted by main regions of the world:

African Recipes Recipes from the Americas Arabian Recipes
Asian Recipes European Recipes Fusion Recipes
Indian Recipes Oceanian Recipes


Recipes for special occasions:

Recipes for Special Occasions, Home
Birthday Recipes Christmas Recipes Easter Recipes
Bonfire Night Recipes Halloween Recipes St David's Day Recipes
Thanksgiving Recipes St Valentine's Day Recipes New Year/Hogmanay Recipes
Burns Night Recipes Shrove Tuesday/Pancake Day Recipes


Recipes by historical period:

Here you will find a range of historical recipes, from pre-historic times throgh the Roman Age, Medieval Times, the Elizabethan age as well as Victorian recipes.

  Ancient   Roman   Medieval
  Elizabethan   Stuart   Georgian/Regency
  Victorian   Traditional   Modern
  Welsh (Cymric) Recipes   Scottish Recipes   English Recipes
  British Recipes


Ancient and Historic Recipe Books:

As part of this site's aim to make ancient and historic recipes more widely known and available, we are digitizing complete versions of ancient and historic recipe books and making them freely available on this site, with translations and modern redactions. More books are uploaded every few months, and below you will find links to all the books added so far. These cover all historic periods from Ancient Roman times to the present day.

  Apicius' De Re Coquinaria (4th Century)   The Forme of Cury (1390)   Proper New Book of Cookery (1545)
  Delightes for Ladies (1602)   W. M. — The Compleat Cook (1658)   Robert May — The Accomplisht Cook (1660)
  Hannah Wolley — The Queen-like Closet (1670)   Hannah Glasse — The Art of Cookery (1747)   Eliza Acton — Modern Cookery (1845)
  Alexis Soyer — The Modern Housewife or Ménagère (1849)   Francatelli — Cook's Guide (1851)   Eliza Acton — English Bread Book (1851)
  Alexis Soyer — A Shilling Cookery Book for the People (1854)   Mrs Beeton — Book of Household Management (1861)


Classic Cuisines — Some countries have yielded a number of the world's great cuisines. Here I present links to the recipe lists for a number of those countries:

French Recipes Indian Recipes Italian Recipes
Moroccan Recipes Turkish Recipes


You can also fetch recipes and other culinary information by:

Alphabetical Listing Recipe Search Region of the World
Historical Period Meal Type Guide to Herbs
Guide to Spices Glossary of Culinary Terms Guide to Wild Foods
Guide to Edible Flowers
Cook's Mass and Weight Conversions Cook's Volume Conversions Cook's Temperature Conversions


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Gin Fizz Cocktail

This classic IBA recipe for Gin Fizz Cocktail is made from gin, lemon juice, gomme syrup, soda water with: gin and gomme syrup as main constituent(s). This is a: Cocktails dish.

Sayur Bayam (Clear Spinach Soup)

This classic Indonesia recipe for Sayur Bayam (Clear Spinach Soup) is made from spinach, sweetcorn, maize, shallots, garlic, red chillies, tomatoes, fingerroot, salt, palm sugar with: spinach and maize as main constituent(s). This is a: Starters dish.

Blue Mallow Gin

This classic British recipe for Blue Mallow Gin is made from gin, common mallow flowers, sugar with: common mallow and gin as main constituent(s). This is a: Drinks dish.

Kannoli tal-Irkotta (Ricotta-filled Cannelloni)

This classic Malta recipe for Kannoli tal-Irkotta (Ricotta-filled Cannelloni) is made from flour, sugar, drinking chocolate, margarine, lard, red wine, ricotta cheese, plain chocolate, glace cherries, icing sugar, almonds with: flour and cheese as main constituent(s). This is a: Dessert dish.

Cupid Corn

This classic American recipe for Cupid Corn is made from granulated sugar, corn syrup, golden syrup, butter, vanilla extract, icing sugar, milk powder, salt, red food colouring with: sugar and syrup as main constituent(s). This is a: Snacks dish.

Passover Nut Biscuits

This classic American recipe for Passover Nut Biscuits is made from butter or margarine, eggs, mixed nuts, honey, salt, orange or lemon essence, jam or nuts or chocolate chips with: nuts and honey as main constituent(s). This is a: Breads, Cakes and Pastries dish.

Samlor Machu Trey (Sweet and Sour Soup with Fish)

This classic Cambodia recipe for Samlor Machu Trey (Sweet and Sour Soup with Fish) is made from fish, tamarind paste, pineapple, okra, sugra, fish sauce, salt, cooking oil, garlic, lemongrass, bean sprouts, beansprouts, celery, tomatoes, rhubarb, rice paddy herb, thai bail, saw-tooth herb, culantro, hot chillies with: fish and okra as main constituent(s). This is a: Starters dish.

Glistritha Salata me Yiaourti kai Kapari (Purslane Salad with Yoghurt and Capers)

This classic Greece recipe for Glistritha Salata me Yiaourti kai Kapari (Purslane Salad with Yoghurt and Capers) is made from yoghurt, common purslane, romaine lettuce, garlic, olive oil, red wine vinegar, capers, salt and black pepper with: yoghurt and greens as main constituent(s). This is a: Starters dish.

Kik Wot (Red Lentil Stew)

This classic Ethiopia recipe for Kik Wot (Red Lentil Stew) is made from split red lentils, onions, vegetable oil, garlic, berbere spice, salt with: lentils and spices as main constituent(s). This is a: Vegetarian dish.

Apricots in Brandy

This classic British recipe for Apricots in Brandy is made from apricots, sugar, brandy with: fruit and brandy as main constituent(s). This is a: Sauces and Jams dish.

Cooking with Hazelnuts - Hazelnut-based Recipes

By gwydion | Published 2008-10-15 18:38:04 | 2008 Recipes and Cookery Articles |

Recipe Information: 56

Hazelnuts are an important part of the Autumn's bounty and humans have been collecting and harvesting them for many thousands of years. Today, however, we tend to use them only as nuts and do not cook with them. To re-dress the balance, here is an introduction to hazelnuts along with some hazelnut-based recipes for you to try at home.

Chilli Recipes

By gwydion | Published 2008-02-27 21:57:49 | 2008 Recipes and Cookery Articles |

Recipe Information: 56

Chillies are a South American fruit, unknown to the rest of the world before 1492. Learn about this amazing spice and find two rather unusual chilli-based recipes for a jam and a sorbet

Brownies Make A Great Dessert

By nezona | Published 2011-11-15 09:06:02 | 2011 Recipes and Cookery Articles |

Recipe Information: 113

Chocolate brownies are the ‘anytime treat’ of the US. Regardless of the occasion from the 4th July to Christmas Brownies are a favourite snack time desert.

Buy Gas Cookers And Cook Yourself Tastier Food

By Michel Gerard | Published 2011-12-03 04:37:03 | 2011 Recipes and Cookery Articles |

Recipe Information: 114

Have you ever asked yourself which is best? Gas or electric cookers. I always found gas cookers an easier fit. Most ones I have seen have a rubbery hose pipe that connects to an usual fitting.

How to Maximize your use of Mushrooms

By gwydion | Published 2008-05-01 19:43:21 | 2008 Recipes and Cookery Articles |

Recipe Information: 35

Mushrooms are an amazing foodstuff, neither plant nor animal but a whole kingdom of life all their own. Though many mushrooms are cultivated the vast majority can only be found in the wild. Here you find recipes for both wild and cultured mushrooms so that you can know how to get the best out of them...

The Foods and Recipes of Ethiopia

By gwydion | Published 2008-10-09 22:22:24 | 2008 Recipes and Cookery Articles |

Recipe Information: 35

Ethiopia is one of the most ethnically, geographically and religiously divers countries in the World. Indeed, it's one of the world's oldest countries and the second country to have become officially Christianized. Ethiopian cuisine is also unique and wholly native and here you will find a taster of that cuisine, with a classic bread and stew combination.

Don't Fear Baking - Making Cakes is Easy!

By gwydion | Published 2008-06-30 17:02:53 | 2008 Recipes and Cookery Articles |

Recipe Information: 35

Many cooks are apprehensive about baking, thinking it to be an extremely laborious and involved process. Following a complicated recipe and ensuring that everything is 'just so'. In fact, the basic sponge cake recipe is a very simple one and this article takes you through some of the rules and pitfalls of baking and gives you two sponge cake recipes to try. Follow this guide and they will come out perfectly every time.

The Art Of Blending Tea Flavors

By Jenny Tompsona | Published 2011-12-06 13:38:12 | 2011 Recipes and Cookery Articles |

Recipe Information: 115

Blending different teas can create great new flavors. Learn more about the process.

British Dessert, Traditional and Modern

By gwydion | Published 2008-05-21 15:47:25 | 2008 Recipes and Cookery Articles |

Recipe Information: 35

British cookery is often seen as a joke, yet with the range of available fresh ingredients British desserts are some of the most divine and inspiring in the world. Here I present two classic desserts: one modern and one traditional for your enjoyment.

Le Creuset Cookware

By gwydion | Published 2010-07-12 16:28:54 | 2010 Recipes and Cookery Articles |

Recipe Information: 114

Le Creuset, established in 1925, is one of France's most well know brands. Originating from a collaboration between a metal caster and an enameller, Le Creuset's enamelled cast iron cookware, particularly their cocottes (casseroles) are rightly famous and deserve a place in every serious cook's kitchen. Learn more about the company's history and product ranges here.


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