Snack

• 1 Irish Soda Bread recipe
  Preparation time: 15 minutes / Cooking time: 30 minutes, plus cooling Makes 1 loaf Approximate cost of total ingredients (without salmon & dill): £2.28 Calories per serving (1/10th of loaf,...

• 2 Blackcurrant macaroons
  Makes 16 • Preparation time 35 minutes • Cooking time 10 minutes Ingredients 110g icing sugar 60g ground almonds 60g egg whites (usually 2 large eggs) 40g caster sugar Few drops of food colouring...

• 3 Mini Scones
  Makes 25 Ingredients 100g self-raising flour 25g caster sugar Pinch of salt 25g unsalted butter, cubed 3 tbsp milk, plus extra to brush Raspberry jam Clotted cream Icing sugar, to dust Method 1. Preheat...

• 4 Lemon macaroons
  These pretty, pastel macaroons with their crunchy outsides and delectably soft insides are the sweetest of confections. They improve by being left in the fridge for a day where their texture softens and...

• 5 Perfect Parisian macaroons for the Beckhams
  Now that Victoria Beckham will be spending fabulous, fashionable weekends in Paris – thanks to her husband David signing with iconic football team Paris Saint-Germain – she might be tempted...

• 6 Laduree's Chocolate Macarons
  Dish type: dessert, snack Ingredients Chocolate ganache 10 oz | 290 g chocolate (minimum 70% cacao solids) 1 cup + 2 tbsp | 270 ml heavy (double) cream 4 tbsp | 60 g butter Macaron shells 2 ¾...

• 7 Chocolate dipped orange shortbread biscuits
  Makes 15–20 biscuits 92 calories/ 5.2g fat per portion Rachel says: ‘These shortbread biscuits are incredibly easy to make and you can cut them in to whatever shapes you’d like. I’ve...

• 8 Baking the perfect shortbread: melt-in-the-mouth recipes
  Think of foods you associate with Scotland. Haggis, Whiskey and shortbread biscuits are bound to come to mind – maybe even fried Mars bars. And seeing as Burns night, which celebrates...

• 9 Caramel poached blueberries with crème fraiche
  Dish type: Dessert, breakfast, snack Quick and easy Serves 4 Preparation time: 5 minutes Cooking time: 9-10 minutes We all love caramel oranges but caramel blueberries are even more delicious. Chill...

• 10 Prosciutto di San Daniele with caramelised fig jam on crostini
  Dish type: Starter Creates 24 crostinis Cooking time: 15 minutes Ingredients 4 figs, diced into 1cm cubes 50g Demerara sugar 1 tablespoon of honey 8 slices of Prosciutto di San Daniele Method: 1)...

• 11 Fabulous Baker Brothers' Scotch Egg Recipe
  Dish type: Snack The recent Scotch Egg renaissance must be because mass-produced ones are so bad that anything home-made is a million times improved! Here’s our classic recipe. Serve warm with a...

• 12 Buffalo wings with blue cheese sauce
  Ingredients (serves 2-3) For the wings 1kg chicken wings, jointed, tips discarded ½ bottle Frank’s Hot Sauce 100g butter Oil for deep frying For the blue cheese sauce...

• 13 Tuna and mixed bean tortillas
  Ingredients (Serves 2) 2 tbsp olive oil 1 bunch spring onions, trimmed and thinly sliced 1-2 red chillies, deseeded and chopped 1 clove garlic, crushed 1 x 400g can mixed beans, drained...

• 14 Grilled venison and green sauce sandwich
  Ingredients (Serves 4) 8 anchovies in olive oil 2 large cloves garlic, peeled and finely chopped Zest of ½ lemon Freshly ground black pepper 150ml/¼pt red wine ...

• 15 Mackerel and beetroot pitta
  Ingredients (Serves 4 as a snack) 4 tbsp Heinz Salad Cream with Cucumber and Dill 100g/4oz extra-light cream cheese 125g/4½oz smoked mackerel, skin removed and flesh flaked into large...

• 16 Gizzi Erskine's Indian scrambled eggs
  Ingredients (serves 2) 2 tbsp butter ghee or vegetable oil 1 tsp cumin seeds 1 green or red chilli, finely sliced 2 spring onions, trimmed and finely sliced ½ red pepper,...

• 17 Andrew Porter’s Pork Scratchings from Eating for Britain by Simon Majumdar
  Ingredients 250g pork skin (from the belly) 3 tbs Halen Môn Anglesey salt (for variation use the oak-smoked or blend a spoonful of fennel seeds and 4 crushed juniper berries into your salt...