Bathtub Gin

A How To Guide … The OG: Cornershop Gin It’s no secret that there’s been an affinity between Day True and Gin since our first showroom opened in a corner shop in Maida Vale. We enjoy playing host, and a G&T featuring a London Dry has been something we regularly offer clients to help everyone … Read more

How to create a classic cookbook collection: part 1

We’re revisiting some classic cookbooks to celebrate WimBookFest, and testing out a few recipes using our Wimbledon Village showroom appliances. First up: ‘River Cafe 30’ and the makings of a shared staff lunch

Lemon Curd: an easy peasy recipe with steam

Making lemon curd the traditional way is an exercise that would normally combine as much scientific pursuit and understanding as it does expertise and jeopardy. As for a crème anglaise (otherwise known as a custard), the trick is to combine a specialist pan, with precision of temperature, and the degree of experience, skill and patience … Read more

Simple Preserved Lemons – instant with a steam oven

A staple of Moroccan cooking, this flavour-bomb ingredient is traditionally created when lemons are salted, stored, and allowed to mature in the fullness of time (three weeks as a minimum). Making them via this traditional method is, admittedly, not especially ‘lemon difficult‘ – the difficulty arises in remembering to make them sufficiently in advance of … Read more

Christmas Car Crash (with a chance of meatballs)

or: Searching for Stanley (Part 2) Let’s tell it like it is: Tony was hard to pin down for a time, a place, or any specifics of the part he intended to play in the pre-prep he suggested ‘we’ could do in order that this Car Crash Cooking Live (Festive Special Edition) might sound like ‘a … Read more