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When I have people round, I do like a cocktail that’s made in a jug, rather than shaken up glass by glass. And when it’s hot, something refreshing and with a touch of sourness is called for, I feel. This is where my Summer Sparkle comes in: a drink that’s bright, light, lemon-sharp, and both encapsulates and instantly imparts a most desirable sunny effervescence. I use San Pellegrino Limonata, as it’s the most emphatically lemony lemonade; you don’t have to use this brand, but do steer away from that ultrasweet clear fizz that, in the UK at least, is sold as lemonade. Also, while the ingredients list below specifies the particular elderflower liqueur I have at home, other brands would no doubt do the job just as well. I should, finally, add that this is better undiluted by ice, so chill the spumante, limonata and jug in good time before making and serving this.

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I admit that a dessert of berries encased in bread is not appealing for those who haven

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This is what you want to bring out to people by the plateful on a summer

Nigella Lawson · Nigella Summer

This is an Oz-emanating recipe from ages ago, long before I

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Nigella Lawson · Nigella Summer

There is just something about home-made strawberry ice cream: it

Nigella Lawson

If I’d had to choose one thing that cooking could not make better, I’d have put good money on its being a bad (as in unripe and tasteless) strawberry. I’d be embarrassed even to own up to trying to improve it, were it not for the fact that I read an article by Saint Simon of Hopkinson in which he advised using said strawbuggers in a pie. So I did. Well, that’s not quite true: I am lazier than he is, so I made a crumble. I don’t know what, how or why it happened, but this is a crumble of dreams. The oven doesn’t, as you’d think, turn the berries into a red-tinted mush of slime, but into berry-intense bursts of tender juiciness. This is nothing short of alchemy: you take the crunchiest, most disappointing strawberries, top them with an almondy, buttery rubble, bake and turn them on a cold day into the taste of English summer. Naturally, serve with lashings of cream: I regard this is as obligatory not optional.

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This is a Greek recipe — actually, strictly speaking, it

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This is another excuse for using up leftovers. Don

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This is a variant on lemon surprise pudding, in which the mixture divides on cooking to produce a sponge above the thick lemony sauce which forms below. Indeed, it is known in my house as Lemon Surprise Pudding: the surprise being that it

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