< Previouswinter It’s Christmas, or soon will be, which means that it’s time to bring out those oven mitts and start preparing a feast for the family – and whatever guests might be coming too. Fine foods for © stock.adobe.com/Sea W ave 40 LINCOLNSHIRE TODAY FOOD & DINING Preparation Time; 15 minutes Cooking Time; 90 minutes You’ll need: 5kg free-range Totally Traditional Turkey 4 tbsp rapeseed oil Sea salt and black pepper For the bechamel sauce: 75g butter 2 tbsp rapeseed oil 8 shallots, peeled and finely chopped 3 cloves of garlic, peeled and finely chopped 250g dried figs, chopped into small cubes 2 small eating apples 250g fresh breadcrumbs 3 tbsp fresh sage leaves, chopped 750g sausage meat 3 tbsp of parsley, chopped 1 large egg beaten What to do: Preheat oven to 230°C/Gas Mark 8 Remove turkey giblets and reserve. Rinse the turkey inside and out and dry well. Place the turkey in a large roasting pan, brush the turkey generously with rapeseed oil and season with sea salt and black pepper and cover with foil. Place the prepared turkey in the pre-heated oven and cook at this temperature for the first 30 minutes. Then, lower the oven temperature to 180°C/Gas Mark 4 and cook for approximately 30 minutes per kilo, basting every hour. To prepare the stuffing, heat the butter and rapeseed oil until the butter has melted. Add the shallot and fry gently until well softened but not browned. Stir in the garlic and season well with sea salt and black pepper. Remove from the heat and place in a bowl, leave to cool. Peel the apples, cut into quarters, remove the core and cut into small cubes. Mix the figs, apples, breadcrumbs, sage, sausage meat and parsley with the shallots, season well with sea salt and black pepper using clean hands and then mix in the beaten egg. The mixture should be quite firm, with wet hands, mould the stuffing into balls the size of a golf ball. Place on a greased baking sheet and bake in the pre-heated oven for about 20 minutes, until golden brown and cooked through. Alternatively you can use the mixture to stuff an onion, per person, and place the rest of the mixture into an ovenproof dish to cook. Take one small onion per person and peel, leaving the top of the onion intact and the base root in place. Peel and boil, whole, in salted boiling water for 8-10 minutes, until just soft, drain and cool in cold water. Drain and cut the top off the onion, about three quarters of the way up, so as to make a lid. Using a sharp knife, hollow out the onion and stuff with the stuffing mixture, replace the lid and brush all over with rape seed oil. Bake for 30-35 minutes in the oven alongside the turkey until cooked through and slightly caramelised. When the turkey is approximately 35 minutes before the end of cooking, remove the foil, drain off any of the excess fat and cook for a further 35 minutes or until golden brown. Transfer the turkey to a platter and cover loosely with foil and leave to rest for 20-30 minutes. Serve the turkey carved with stuffing balls or stuffed onions and gravy. Recipe supplied by www.totallytraditionalturkeys.com Roasted Turkey with shallot stuffing with fresh sage 40-43.qxp_Layout 1 19/11/2021 09:14 Page 1Tomato bruschetta on country white You’ll need: * Tomatoes * Red peppers * Shallots * Balsamic vinegar * Olive oil * Sea salt * Fresh black pepper * White sourdough * Garlic * Fresh basil * Parmesan shavings What to do: 1) Blanch, deseed and chop up tomatoes 2) Roast red peppers until soft, removing skin and seeds 3) Finely chop shallots, wash and dry 4) Mix shallots, peppers, tomatoes and garlic with balsamic vinegar, olive oil, salt and pepper 5) Lightly toast the bread on both sides and rub with a halved garlic clove 6) Mix fresh basil with tomato mix and spoon onto the toast 7) Finish with parmesan shavings and a drizzle of olive oil Recipe courtesy of Hambleton Bakery Don’t forget to check out www.hambletonbak ery.co.uk and follow @HAMBLETONBAK E on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. LINCOLNSHIRE TODAY 41 FOOD & DINING sourdough 40-43.qxp_Layout 1 19/11/2021 09:14 Page 2Chunky Peanut Butter & What to do: 1) Heat the oven to 170°C. Melt the butter and set aside to cool for a moment. In a large bowl, stir together the sugar and butter, until combined. Add the egg and yolk and continue to mix. 2) Fold in the flour and when combined fold in 1/2 of the chocolate. Briefly stir through 1/2 of the peanut butter, leaving swirls visible. 3) Use a tbsp measure to scoop dollops of mixture onto 2 or 3 non-stick baking sheets, making sure you leave plenty of room for them to expand when they cook. 4) Poke a clean finger into each cookie to make a well in the centre and drizzle in a little of the remaining peanut butter. Then dot a few pieces of the remaining chocolate over the top of each. 5) If you’re just cooking half now, put the other half of the cookies into a freezer container and freeze. 6) Bake the remaining biscuits for 15 mins until they are cooked at the edges but still soft in the middle. Allow to cool for a few minutes on the baking sheet then transfer to a baking rack. Keep them in an airtight tin. When you want to cook the remaining cookies, put the frozen scoops onto an oven tray and cook in a preheated oven for 20-25 minutes or until, like the first batch, they are cooked at the edges but still soft in the middle. Recipe courtesy of www.meridianfoods.co.uk © stock.adobe.com/nata_vkusidey 42 LINCOLNSHIRE TODAY These home bakes are a great time saver because you can make half and freeze half for another day. R. WISBY (FAMILY BUTCHER) LTD 16 High Street2 Market Place Horncastle Wragby LN9 5BLLN8 5QU 01507 52737101673 858968 We are a traditional butchers doing things the traditional way. Our meat is only of the best quality and we pride ourselves on our customer service. Christmas orders now being taken Prep Time: 15 minutes Cooking Time: 15 minutes Makes 22 cookies. You’ll need: * 120g butter * 200g coconut sugar * 1 egg * 1 egg yolk * 250g Self Raising Flour * 250g milk chocolate roughly chopped * 130g crunch rich roast Meridian peanut butter Chocolate Cookies FOOD & DINING 40-43.qxp_Layout 1 19/11/2021 09:15 Page 3LINCOLNSHIRE TODAY 43 This delightful tipple conjures the heady spirit of Christmas with its sweet and floral rose accents. Pour 2 measures gin, 175ml cranberry guide, 1tsp honey and 1/4tsp rosewater into a highball glass. Stir with a bar soon until the honey has dissolved. Add ice cubes, 1tsp pomegranate seeds and 1/4tsp dried rose petals, then stir again. Decorate with more rose petals and serve immediately with a straw. Cocktail taken from The Craft of Cocktails. Courtesy: Parragon Books FOOD & DINING Picture your venue Click’em Inn Swinhope, Nr Binbrook, Market Rasen, LN8 6BS Tel: 01472 398253 Web: www.clickem-inn.co.uk The Click’em Inn is a family-owned freehouse, established for over 30 years in its current incarnation. Steeped in history, the inn is open 6 days a week, Tuesday- Sunday, offering a wide choice of drinks, including six real ales available at any time, with a regularly changing selection of personally recommended guest ales. The Kitchen is open Tuesday-Sunday for evening dining, plus lunchtimes Friday-Sunday. The menu varies from day-to-day with the chef’s specials, alongside regular meals. To promote your services call Angie Cooper on 01472 310302 or email: a.cooper@blmgroup.co.uk © Shutterstock / SherShor Turkish Delight Gin Cocktail 40-43.qxp_Layout 1 19/11/2021 09:15 Page 444 LINCOLNSHIRE TODAY We begin in Hereford where a Lincolnshire clergyman crops up in the cathedral. His name was Richard of Haldingham (that is the Holdingham near Sleaford) and we find it at the bottom of the world-famous Mappa Mundi. He was sometimes known as Richard de Bello and was the author and draughtsman of the map that dates from late 1200’s. Formerly a prebend at Lincoln cathedral he later moved to Hereford. Some historians think his map may have been compiled in Lincoln but it is known to have been at Hereford from 1330. It depicts the world, as it was then known, but not in a modern geographical sense since it is centred on Jerusalem with Britain at the bottom left- hand corner. Beneath it an inscription reads (in Latin) “All who possess this work… pray to Jesus to have pity on Richard de Haldingham or Lafford (Sleaford) who made it and set it out that he may be granted bliss in heaven.” Captain John Smith was born at Willoughby. Amongst his many adventures he is perhaps best remembered for his time in America between 1607 and 1615 where he helped establish Virginia, England’s first American colony named after Queen Elizabeth I, the “Virgin” queen. He was Virginia’s president from 1608 and is also remembered for his encounter with the Indian princess Pocahontas. Both are commemorated with statues on Jamestown Island. His explorations further north, an area he named New England, paved the way for the Pilgrim Fathers where Boston, Massachusetts is of course named after the Lincolnshire Boston. Botany Bay, near Sydney in Australia was named by Captain James Cook to honour Lincolnshire’s Sir Joseph Banks, the naturalist on his famous round the world voyage between 1768 and 1771, because of the large number of new plants that Banks discovered there. Matthew Flinders from Donington was the man who named Australia and the first to circumnavigate the entire continent. During that voyage (accompanied by his cousin, the young John Franklin) he named many places after towns and villages in his native Lincolnshire. There is a Port Lincoln, a Port Tumby plus an entire group of islands, the Sir Joseph Banks Group, in Louth Bay off the south coast, including Revesby, Stickney, Partney and Winceby Islands. Not only did Flinders name places in Australia but such is the appreciation of him there that he has many places named after him including an island, a mountain range, numerous streets and even Melbourne station. George Bass, from Aswarby near Not all Lincolnshire heritage is in Lincolnshire; reminders of our heritage and the influence of many Lincolnshire people is recognised around both the UK and the world. heritage Lincolnshire explored MATTHEW FLINDERS BISHOP WAYNEFLETE'S SCHOOL WAINFLEET 44-45.qxp_Layout 1 19/11/2021 09:16 Page 1LINCOLNSHIRE TODAY 45 Sleaford, has his name immortalised by the Bass Strait separating Australia and Tasmania. He and Matthew Flinders circumnavigated Tasmania in 1798/9 so proving it to be an island; a discovery that much shortened the voyage to the colony at Sydney. Faraway Tasmania also has links with Nocton in Lincolnshire. Amongst the owners of Nocton Hall from (about) 1767 was the Hobart family, George Hobart being 3rd Earl of Buckinghamshire. His son Robert, (the 4th Earl) was Secretary of State for the Colonies and Hobart, Tasmania’s capital is named after him. Sir John Franklin was here too as Governor between 1836 and 1844. And, surprisingly, Sir Isaac Newton crops up in Hammerfest in arctic Norway. In his “Principia Mathematica” of 1687 Newton predicted that the earth was not a true sphere but flattened at the poles due to the distorting effects of gravity. He was finally proven correct when, between 1816 and 1852, a team of Russian, Norwegian and Swedish scientists measured a meridian from the Mediterranean to Hammerfest. The achievement is commemorated by the Meridianstotta (Meridian Column) erected by King Oskar III. Newton is credited on the adjacent information board. Following two arduous overland expeditions in arctic Canada Sir John Franklin (aged 59) undertook his final ill- fated arctic expedition to discover the Northwest Passage, this time by sea, with two ships the Erebus and Terror and 129 men. They set sail on the May 19th 1845 and his last contact with Great Britain was the harbour of Stromness, Orkney on the 6th June to take on water after which they vanished. The well they used (Login’s Well) still exists and bears a memorial plaque. Canadian arctic place names honour all Franklin’s explorations. We know he died on 11th June 1847, but not how or where, and his body has never been located, though his ships have been found recently; Erebus in 2014 and Terror in 2016. In Canada’s Northwest Territories there is a Franklin District, Franklin Mountains, Franklin Strait and Lake. Back in Europe a Lincolnshire clergyman’s grave can be found in Switzerland. The Reverend Charles Hudson was a mountaineer and alpinist from Skillington who died following the first ascent of the Matterhorn on 14th July 1865. He, along with three other members of the party, fell 4,000 feet during their descent when their rope broke. His grave can be found at the Englische Kirke (English church) in Zermatt. And finally, we return to late mediaeval times and closer to home where Oxford University owes the foundation of two of its colleges to the influence and generosity of Lincolnshire men. Bishop William of Wayneflete (1395 to 1486) was born as William Patten at Wainfleet. After an illustrious career as Bishop of Winchester he founded Magdalen College in 1448 for the study of theology. Coincidentally, also in 1448 – as far as we know - Bishop Richard Foxe (circa 1448 to 1528) was born in Ropsley. He rose to become Secretary of State to king Henry VII and baptised the infant Henry VIII. He was also Bishop of Bath, Wells and Durham and founded Corpus Christi College Oxford in 1515. by Hugh Marrows Capt JOHN SMITH WINDOW WILLOUGHBY SIR JOHN FRANKLIN JOSEPH BANKS AUSTRALIAN SCULPTURE, SPA TRAILPLAQUE AT BISHOP FOX'S BIRTHPLACE THE MERIDIANSTOTTA AT HAMMERFEST NORWAY 44-45.qxp_Layout 1 19/11/2021 09:16 Page 246 LINCOLNSHIRE TODAY CHRISTMAS GUIDE Christmas Love is the best thing one person can give another, but it’s nice to receive a few Christmas presents as well though, isn’t it? Whether you’ve still got a few people to buy for, or you’re stuck on that one irritating uncle who’s impossible to buy for, Lincolnshire Today has got you covered with this glorious gift guide curated by our very own editorial elves. These beautiful microwavable bags contains specialist British wheat and natural lavender buds to help you soothe and relax. Available from Curious Rose. This Christmas, treat your furry friend like the royalty they are with this stunning personalised pet stocking from Prezzybox.com. Just choose an illustration that most resembles your pet and add their name. These stunning magenta velvet bags from The Northern Line ooze glamour with the addition of the edged beading and beautiful beaded bee design. Perfect accessory for storing keys, phone and lippy on a night out. All you want for 46-51.qxp_Layout 1 19/11/2021 09:20 Page 1LINCOLNSHIRE TODAY 47 CHRISTMAS GUIDE Suitable for beginners or for those with a little embroidery experience, this kit from Stich Happy comes with a full colour instruction booklet which talks you through the pattern and the stitches you will need to get you started. A great introduction to modern embroidery. The Agnes earrings by Jolita Jewellery were hand-made to be admired. Every single crystal was meticulously hand-sewn over a period of several days to create a true statement pair of earrings that will sparkle from afar. Available via Charlton Island. These unique vegan solid shampoo Kubes from Considerate Beauty are made with 100% plastic- free ingredients and packaging. The shampoo is vegan-friendly, palm oil free, sulphate free and silicone free. This fabulous, limited edition print by Charlotte Posner shows the lovely pop dolls getting ready for a big night out. It’s sure to add a touch of the fun factor to a dressing room, bedroom or bathroom. Available from Lime Lace. 46-51.qxp_Layout 1 19/11/2021 09:20 Page 248 LINCOLNSHIRE TODAY CHRISTMAS GUIDE With the Aiden Wooden Hospital Play Set from Kids Concept (and available from Cuckooland), your kiddies will be able to repair and recover all their teddies and toys. This sweet mushroom money box from Laura Lee Designs makes a magical addition to your home. Each piece is a hand painted original and is signed by the artist. These amazing hearts are made from a unique seed paper. Handcrafted from recycled materials, the paper contains inclusions of petals and wildflower seeds. When ‘planted’ the paper breaks down into the soil and the seeds germinate to produce seedlings. Available from Plant a Bloomer. Here’s an unusual present for that hard to buy for someone in your life – the weather predicting storm cloud from Five And Dime. The cloud takes a few days to acclimatise but the liquid inside the storm cloud will indicate what the weather has in store by forming little clouds within the glass. 46-51.qxp_Layout 1 19/11/2021 09:20 Page 3LINCOLNSHIRE TODAY 49 CHRISTMAS GUIDE This must-have loungewear essential from Bown of London is perfect for early mornings, late evenings and relaxed weekends. Team with skinny jeans and a slender tie and collar for elegant occasionwear or opt for relaxed pants and tee for a more casual take on this British classic. Delight a loved one with this quirky accessory from Rose & Grey. It looks lovely on its own placed on a shelf or could be used to display dried flowers. 62 HIGH STREET, CAYTHORPE, LINCOLNSHIRE, NG32 3DN 01400 272632 WWW.REDLIONCAYTHORPE.COM HELLO@REDLIONCAYTHORPE.COM CHRISTMAS OPENING TIMES THURSDAY 30TH - CLOSED NEW YEARS EVE - 12PM- 12AM NEW YEARS DAY - 12PM-5PM SUNDAY 2ND J AN - 12PM-6PM MONDAY 3RD J AN - 12PM-5PM TUESDAY 4TH J AN - 12PM- 11PM The Caythorpe CHRIS TMA S EVE - 12PM- 11PM CHRIS TMA S DAY - 12PM-6PM BOXING DAY - 12PM-6PM MONDAY 2 7TH - 12PM-5PM TUESDAY 28TH - 12PM-5PM WEDNESDAY 29TH - CLOSED The Red Lion Caythorpe Team wishes all our customers a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. We could not have succeeded in the last two years without your continued support and for that we thank you. We cannot express our gratitude enough. All the best for 2022, and we look forward to welcoming you back in the New Year. A hip flask crafted in stainless steel wrapped with hand-bound stag engraved beautiful quality leather. A perfect gift from Annabel James to keep the chill away from a loved one this winter. 46-51.qxp_Layout 1 19/11/2021 09:20 Page 4Next >