Wendyl Nissen

Try this retro recipe for a taste of your nana's favourite sweet treat, classic old-fashioned barley sugars.

Here are some tips to help you know your way around use-by dates on food.

This humble pantry item is more handy than most.

This pudding tastes gorgeous and is very filling, so you need only a little served with a dollop of custard. Perfect for a Sunday night dessert in winter.

This recipe for plum duff, otherwise known as Christmas pudding, was sent to me by Jillian Hanlon, who says it is a real favourite with her family.

These make perfect fillings for delicate sandwiches at high tea.

Junket is a delicious, healthy dessert.

It turns out, there are still choko fans out there and they eagerly sent in their recipes. This was my favourite.

Coddling is a wonderful old way to prepare an egg as a dainty little meal, especially if you have an old china or porcelain egg coddler with a silver lid. It makes breakfast in bed that extra bit special and for lunch it is looks very dainty.

There’s nothing quite as comforting as a bit of oxtail in the winter.

Here, Wendyl Nissen states a case for adding liver to your cooking repertoire.

In Nana’s day, a curry was simply a sauce that you added to some cold meat. Here's an example of this old-fashioned dish.

Sweetbreads have long been out of fashion for the home cook. But to my mind, and some famous chefs, they’re wonderful to eat – especially if you don’t know where they came from.

By far the best use of green tomatoes is using them in a chutney or pickle. The unripe tomatoes deliver the sour to the sweet of the brown sugar and it all teams perfectly with a strong cheddar cheese on bread or crackers.

Mint is one of the easiest herbs to grow, and abundance of homegrown mint means homemade mint sauce or jelly! Here are two recipes by Kiwi cook Wendyl Nissen to try at home.

Everyone likes ginger beer – here's how to make it yourself. Photograph by Yianni Aspradakis / Bauersyndication.com.au.

Delicious club sandwich inspiration that goes beyond the classic egg and ham. Photograph by Dean Wilmot / Bauersyndication.com.au.

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