ESSE

27/03/2008

Recipes from Gill Meller exclusively for ESSE

Take a look at the latest recipes from Gill Meller on our recipe page.

Gill is head chef at River Cottage and is working with us to create an online recipe resource for ESSE owners. He cooks on a Woodfired ESSE range cooker at home and also uses an ESSE at the 'office'.

Here's one of Gill's recently added recipes:

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Leg of Mutton or Lamb Baked in Hay

Ingredients

A few handfuls of hay

125g soft butter

several good sprigs each of rosemary, marjoram and thyme, chopped

2 garlic cloves, crushed

1 leg of mutton or good-sized leg of lamb

salt and freshly ground black pepper

Hay was originally used in cooking as an insulator. In grand Victorian kitchens, roasts were taken from the oven and packed in boxes lined with hay, to keep them hot when transported to shooting lunches and elaborate picnics. It was noted that the hay imparted a distinctive and delightful flavour – worth exploring for its own sake. Mutton or lamb baked in hay like this is not just tasty but unusually moist and tender.

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You can find more of Gill's creations on our recipes page

http://www.esse.com/cookers/cooking/recipes/meat.html

The ESSE Team

21/01/2008

Woodfired Cooker maintenance guide download now available

A new publication for Woodfired owners is now available as a download from the Woodfired cooker page.

If the simple cleaning and maintenance guidelines in this booklet are followed at the prescribed intervals, your cooker should provide trouble free performance year after year and reward you with environmentally friendly cooking and heating with minimum fuss.

This guide has been produced following long term testing of a virtually continuously used Woodfired cooker and should prove an invaluable guide to ESSE Woodfired owners.

Follow the link below and look for the Maintenance Guide link.

http://www.esse.com/cookers/cookers/woodfired.html

The ESSE Team