Welcome to the Celtnet Dessert Recipes Home Page

Welcome to Celtnet's Dessert Recipes Page — People like sweet things, which is a feature of our primate ancestry (this is also why we like fruit) and most desserts are a combination of fruit and sweeteners. There are a few exceptions to this — the most notable being the European penchant for milk-based products (cream, ice-cream, yoghurt, custard).

Here you will find a large range of recipes which do not fit into the 'ancient' theme of the remainder of the recipes on this site. In essence these recipes represent a sampling of the several thousand recipes that I've gathered, adapted and personally cooked over the years. Many of these recipes originate with University friends who helped engender my interest in world cuisine. Others come from exchanging recipes on the internet or going through recipe books to search for things that work (and things that don't) and are the results of my own experiments and modifications on these recipes. Yet others are things that I've tried and which turned out so well that I decided to write them up.

I have a passion for food and cookery that is (hopefully) bolstered by a formal scientific training that lets me know what's happening when food cooks. This is one reason why Roman cookery with it's balancing of salt, sweet, sour, bitter and umami flavours is so fascinating (the same balancing is also present in Thai cuisine) and I want to bring this approach to the balancing of flavours to traditional Western and to fusion foods. Spice blends are fascinating as they show both how foods and flavourings have developed locally across the world and how the spice trade (especially the introduction of Black Pepper and Chillis) have affected the major cuisines of the world.

In many ways, accompaniments to main courses are the 'Cinderella' elements of meals and recipes. After all, roast potatoes are not nearly as sexy as a good crown roast of lamb. Yet, a meal is not truly a meal without its accompanying carbohydrate and vegetable elements. Indeed, it's often because these elements are not considered sexy and are not often published that many have problems cooking and creating these elements of a meal.

As well as the list of recipes presented below you can also fetch Modern and Traditional dessert recipes by meal type via these links:

Starters Fish Courses Meat Courses
Vegetarian Accompaniments to Main Courses Desserts
Breads, Cakes and Pastries Sauces and Jams Snacks
Drinks Spice Blends


Alphabetical list of Starters recipes follow (limited to 100 recipes per page). There are 790 recipes in total:


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Elderberry Flummery
(Elderberry Flummery)
     Origin: British
Apple Fritters
     Origin: British
Baked or Boiled Arrowroot Pudding
     Origin: British
A Tansy
     Origin: British
Apple Gingerbread Cobbler
     Origin: American
Baked Pears with Butter
     Origin: British
Achhar
     Origin: Nepal
Apple Sherbet
     Origin: America
Baked Persimmon Pudding
     Origin: New Zealand
Aepfelkratzet
(Apple Scramble)
     Origin: German
Apple Syrup Parfait
     Origin: British
Baklava
     Origin: Greece
African Crêpes
     Origin: Cameroon
Apple Tansy
     Origin: British
Baklawa
     Origin: Egypt
Al Burtugal Wal Zabib Al Mutabal
(Creamy Paprika Chicken)
     Origin: Egypt
Apples with Chocolate
     Origin: British
Banana and Peanut Butter Ice Cream
     Origin: America
Almond Ice Cream
     Origin: British
Apples with Sweet Cicely
     Origin: British
Banana den Forno
(Baked Bananas)
     Origin: Aruba
Ambrosia
     Origin: American
Apricot and Almond Charlotte
     Origin: British
Banana Ice Cream
     Origin: British
Amish Apple Grunt
     Origin: Amish
Apricot and Marigold Ice Cream
     Origin: British
Banana Ice Cream II
     Origin: British
Amish Biscuits
     Origin: American
Apricot Bombe
     Origin: British
Banana Pancakes
     Origin: Sierra Leone
Amish Bread Pudding
     Origin: Amish
Apricot Sorbet
     Origin: British
Banana Soufflé
     Origin: Lesotho
Amish Shortcake
     Origin: America
Arabic Aseeda
     Origin: Arabic
Banana-Coconut Bake
     Origin: American
Angelica Ice Cream
     Origin: British
Arrowroot Jelly
     Origin: British
Bananas en Croute
     Origin: British
Angelica Powder Ice Cream
     Origin: British
Arrowroot Pudding
     Origin: British
Barley Pudding
     Origin: Scottish
Angelica Sorbet
     Origin: France
Arrowroot Soufflé
     Origin: French
Basboosa
     Origin: Libya
Aniseed Myrtle Ice Cream
     Origin: Australia
Arroz con Leche
(Rice with Milk)
     Origin: Colombia
Baseema
     Origin: Sudan
Apfel Lokshen Kugel
(Apple Noodle Sweet)
     Origin: German
Astelpajusorbee
(Sea-buckthorn Sorbet)
     Origin: Estonia
Bavarois
     Origin: Germany
Apfelpfannkuchen
(Apple Pancakes)
     Origin: German
Asure
(Wheat Pudding)
     Origin: Turkey
Bayerische Erdbeercreme
(Strawberry Barvarian)
     Origin: German
Apfelschaum
(Apple Mousse)
     Origin: German
Athole Brose
     Origin: Scottish
Bayerische Vanillecreme
(Bavarian Vanilla Cream)
     Origin: German
Apple and Plum Charlotte
     Origin: British
Ausgezogenes Mehlmus
     Origin: Austrian
Bayou Bread Pudding with Hot Rum Sauce
     Origin: Cajun
Apple and Plum Gingerbread Cobbler
     Origin: American
Autumn Pudding
     Origin: British
Bean Curd Skin, Barley and Ginkgo Dessert
     Origin: China
Apple and Plum Grunt
     Origin: Amish
Τēganismenest Ntymenest Ktupēma Phraoylest Mpurast
(Fried Beer Batter Coated Strawberries)
     Origin: Greece
Beetroot Ice Cream
     Origin: British
Apple and Quince Ice Cream
     Origin: British
Bánh lọt
(Sweet Rice Pasta)
     Origin: Vietnam
Beetroot Sorbet
     Origin: British
Apple and Rhubarb Gingerbread Cobbler
     Origin: American
Bahamanian Bread Pudding
     Origin: Bahamas
Belizean Bread Pudding
     Origin: Belize
Apple and Sea-buckthorn Flummery
     Origin: Russia
Bailey's Syllabub
     Origin: Ireland
Berry Ice Cream
     Origin: British
Apple and Tamarillo Charlotte
     Origin: British
Baked Alaska
     Origin: American
Bibingka Cassava
(Cassava Dessert)
     Origin: Philippines
Apple and Tamarillo Flummery
     Origin: British
Baked Apples
     Origin: British
Bilberry Clafoutis
(Bilberry Clafoutis)
     Origin: France
Apple and Tamarillo Gingerbread Cobbler
     Origin: British
Baked Apples with Butter
     Origin: British
Bilberry Flan
     Origin: British
Apple and Tamarillo Grunt
     Origin: Amish
Baked Apples with Cream Cheese and Honey
     Origin: Libya
Bilberry Flummery
     Origin: British
Apple and Tamarillo Mousse
     Origin: German
Baked Apples with Sea-buckthorn
     Origin: Russia
Bilberry Ice Cream
     Origin: British
Apple and Tamarillo Sherbet
     Origin: British
Baked Bananas Gabon
     Origin: Gabon
Bilberry Pudding
     Origin: England
Apple and Walnut Crêpes
     Origin: France
Baked Cassava with Cane Syrup
     Origin: Guinea-Bissau
Bilberry Water Ice
     Origin: British
Apple Charlotte
     Origin: British
Baked Gooseberry Pudding
     Origin: British
Apple Dumplings with Walnut Sauce
     Origin: British
Baked Green Bananas in Orange Syrup
     Origin: Tanzania

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Beef is a very flavoursome meat, as long as it is well matured, but it does have the cachet of being expensive and to be used only as a treat. Partly this is due to the history of beef as a high-status ingredient. Partly it's due to the cost of the better cuts. But you have a whole animal to consider and this article takes you through the history of beef eating and gives you a recipe for both the best and one of the poorer cuts of meat.

The World's Hottest Chilli Dish?

By gwydion | Published 2008-03-10 11:47:34 | 2008 Recipes and Cookery Articles |

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Chilli recipes to blow your brains out... Here are three recipes from India and Africa, incorporating the world's hottest chillies. Each could claim itself to be... The world's hottest chilli dish...

Drinks Recipes - The Quest for Safe Drinks

By gwydion | Published 2008-11-03 14:22:44 | 2008 Recipes and Cookery Articles |

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When you examine the history of drinks, what you see is the attempt by human civilizations to render drinking water safe. This article gives an introduction to the ways various civilizations have chosen to make water safe to drink as well as providing two recipes for a fruit juice drink and a spice infusion of lemongrass.

Halloween Recipes - The Foods and History of Halloween

By gwydion | Published 2008-10-07 14:00:20 | 2008 Recipes and Cookery Articles |

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Halloween has a 2000 year history, extending from the time of the Ancient Celts to the modern day. Learn how the Romans and Christians changed this ancient feast and how it found its way to the Americas. You will also get recipes for a Celtic stew and a pumpkin dish associated with Halloween.

Fruit-based Dessert Recipes

By gwydion | Published 2008-10-30 09:37:35 | 2008 Recipes and Cookery Articles |

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The Romans were the first peoples to formally add a dessert course at the end of a meal. Here you will learn a little about why we like sweet desserts and why they all, in one way or another, echo the fruit our ancestors used to eat. You will also see two recipes for classic fruit-based desserts.

Baking Cakes Made Easy

By gwydion | Published 2008-06-22 13:47:00 | 2008 Recipes and Cookery Articles |

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Here is a simple step-by-step guide to letting you get the most from your cake baking. This article takes you through some of the history, science and practicalities of cake making so you will know not only what to do, but why your should do it. Armed with this information you can turn out perfect light and creamy cakes time after time...

The History of Chillies and Their Use as a Spice

By gwydion | Published 2008-10-29 08:18:24 | 2008 Recipes and Cookery Articles |

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Chillies (chili, chilé, ají) is an amazing spice that originates in Central and Northern South America. It was unknown in the Old World until the early 1500 but by 1549 had made its way across the world from Europe through Africa, the Near East and had reached China and Japan. Learn about the history of the spread of chillies and why this is such an amazing spice.

Eggs in Cookery - the Magic of Eggs

By gwydion | Published 2008-11-09 09:10:33 | 2008 Recipes and Cookery Articles |

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The egg is one of nature's finest storage foods, packed with protein and fats. Chickens have been domesticated several times throughout human history and they are mankind's commonest domesticated animal, raised for meat and eggs. Here you will learn a little about eggs, why they are important in cookery and how they have been used throughout the ages.

US and UK Cookery Terms

By gwydion | Published 2008-04-22 22:04:54 | 2008 Recipes and Cookery Articles |

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If you are from the US or the UK looking at a recipe from the other side of the Atlantic there are probably many unfamiliar terms in the recipes you encounter. This glossary brings together many of the culinary terms that differ between the tow sides of the Atlantic, making it easier for you to understand recipes from the other side of the pond.

Don't Fear Baking - Making Cakes is Easy!

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

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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.


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