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Nostalgic recipes

Bring the past to your plate with these nostalgic recipes. You could start with taking a trip back to your school days with sticky sponges, rice pudding, cheese pies and teatime treats like fondant fancies and iced party rings.

Retro recipes that were once all the rage make a comeback. We’re talking prawn cocktail, black forest gateau and arctic roll. Old-fashioned treats like pork pies, raspberry lemonade and scotch eggs also feature in this unashamedly nostalgic recipe collection.

Which old favourite will you make first?

And if you want to lay on a huge vintage festive feast, try our nostalgic Christmas recipes collection too.

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Easy butterfly cakes

Light-as-air sponge is topped with vanilla buttercream in these almost-too-good-to-eat fairy cakes. They’re great to make…

Freezable
🍽 Makes 12⏱ 20 min hands-on · 25 min oven◆ Easy

Ham, egg and chips

Ham, egg and chips with a twist is the easy dinner party main you never knew…

Gluten-free
🍽 Serves 6⏱ 30 min hands-on · 3 hours 55 min oven◆ Easy

Rice pudding brûlée with caramel bananas

If you love rice pudding, you’ll love this indulgent rice pudding brûlée with caramel bananas from…

Gluten-freeVegetarian
🍽 Serves 6⏱ 20 min hands-on · 1 hour 30 min oven◆ Easy

Chicken marbella

Learn how to make 1980s dinner party favourite chicken marbella with our easy recipe. This chicken…

🍽 Serves 4⏱ 10 min hands-on · 1 hour 5 min oven◆ Easy

Mint ‘Viennetta’ New York cheesecake

Packed with nostalgic retro flavours, this mint chocolate cheesecake is baked in a loaf tin to…

Vegetarian
🍽 Serves 8⏱ 35 min hands-on · 1 hour 5 min oven◆ Medium

Custard jam slice

Fancy a proper custard slice with layers of flaky pastry and silky custard? Oliver and Tom…

🍽 Makes 12 slices⏱ 20 min hands-on · 30 min oven◆ Easy

Air fryer sesame egg mayo vol-au-vents

Boiling an egg in an air fryer? Yep, it works! The shell protects the eggs from…

Dairy-freeVegetarian
🍽 Makes 24⏱ 20 min. Air fryer time 17 min hands-on · 17 min oven◆ Easy

Best-of-the-best chicken kyiv

Forget the frozen ready-meal version of the 1970s and 80s – this recipe shows why the…

🍽 Serves 2⏱ 35 min hands-on◆ Medium

Pasta pomodoro

Pasta pomodoro is the original – and best – tomato pasta. This recipe is quick and…

Vegetarian
🍽 Serves 4⏱ 25 min hands-on◆ Easy

Chicken alfredo

Creamy and rich with a hint of garlic and dried herbs, this simple chicken alfredo pasta…

🍽 Serves 2⏱ 40 min hands-on◆ Easy

Paul Ainsworth’s strawberry trifle

Top chef Paul Ainsworth grew up in his parents’ guest house in Southampton and here shares…

Gluten-free
🍽 Serves 6⏱ 1 hour hands-on◆ Challenge

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