Duck Egg Mayonnaise, Fried Bread & Smoked Duck

An Old Inn favourite and a family recipe from our breakfast chef Dermot, the traditional fruit brack is a moist, tea-soaked loaf filled with dried fruit and mild spice. Served as part of breakfast and our indulgent afternoon tea, it’s comforting slice of home-baked goodness. 

Ingredients

• 1x 900g Loaf
• 250g Soft Plain flour
• 15g Baking powder
• 125g  Soft brown Sugar
• 3 Eggs
• 250ml  Cold tea
• 250g dried fruit of your liking
• 50 g  Mixed peel
• ½ tsp Mixed spice
• Honey to brush the top of the loaf

Method

1. Start your loaf the night before, by soaking the dried fruit and peel in the cold tea, and place in a fridge to soften.
2. Pre-heat you oven to 150c
3. With a bowl and flour Sieve, pass your flour, baking powder and spice together, this makes sure that they are thoroughly mixed but also adds air to the flour which helps the rise. Add the sugar, and mix together.
4. Add the beaten eggs and then the soaked fruits, the mix is very wet almost like a batter.
5. Pour into a lined loaf tin and Bake for approx. 1 hour , remove oven allow to cool for 15 mins and then turn out on to baking wire. When cool brush with warm honey and if you like roll in Demerara sugar
6. Serve with cold salted butter and a hot cup of tea!

Ingredients For 4 portions

• 6-700g halibut fillet or any meaty fish you prefer, cut in to 4 portions
• 30g Sea purslane
• 12 leaves Sea beet
• 40g Samphire
• 10g chervil
• 10g chives

Crushed comber earlies

• 600g Cumber earlies
• 150g Salted butter
• 100g crème fresh
• 20 ml white wine vinegar
• Salt and pepper

Wash the potatoes, and boil in salted water until soft (approx. 15 mins), drain and break them with the back of a fork, add the salted butter, cream and vinegar, mix together until you have a soft crushed potato and season to taste, keep warm.

Brown shrimp

• 120g salted butter
• Lemon cut into segment and juice
• Parsley
• 150g Brown shrimp

Pickled Dulse

• 200 ml distilled white vinegar
• 50g sugar
• 10g salt
• 1 small bag dulse

Bring the vinegar, salt and sugar up to the boil, allow to cool and drop in the dulse allow to sit for 1 hour before using

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 200°C.
2. Heat a non-stick pan until smoking. Season the fish, add a splash of oil to the pan and place the fish in. Cook for one minute on each side to get a nice colour.
3. Transfer the fish to the oven and roast for approximately 4 minutes.
4. Once out of the oven, move the fish to a warm tray.
5. In a separate pan, add the salted butter and let it cook until golden brown. Add the shrimp, parsley, and lemon, then remove from the heat.
6. To plate up, place the warm crushed potatoes in the centre of the plate, gently lay the fish on top, spoon over the shrimp butter, and finish with sea herbs and pickled dulse.

The Old Inn’s Head Chef Andrew Turner spent his childhood growing up in Weymouth, Dorset, where Cream Teas are a big thing. Plain or fruit? Cream on first or jam on first? Someone always has an opinion and normally isn’t afraid to share it with you. We say eat the scones as you prefer, with whatever and however you like.

Here’s the recipe we use at The Old Inn. It’s light, a little sweet, and always a treat.

Preheat your oven to 160c

• 600g Self-rising flour
• 17g Baking powder
• 135g Butter
• 75g Sugar
• 295ml Buttermilk
• 1Tsp Vanilla essence
• 1 egg

Additional for Fruit Scones

• 170g Sultanas
• 10 g Additional flour

For the plain scone

• Sieve all the dry ingredients together, rub in soft butter to the dry mix, then add the buttermilk and vanilla essence.
• Mix as little as possible until the ingredients have come together, roll out to about 4 cm thick and cut out using a pastry cutter of the desired size.
• Take the egg and beat with a fork, brush the top of each scone, being careful not to let any run down the side as this will stop the scone rising evenly.
• Cook until golden brown approx. 15/20 mins

For the fruit scones

• Shake the fruit and the 10g of flour together and mix into the dry ingredients then continue as above. 

For the Scotch Egg

Ingredients

• 2 free range hen eggs

• 200g sausage meat

• 200g plain flour

• 1 egg

• 200ml whole milk

• 200g panko breadcrumbs

Method

1. Put the 2 free range eggs into boiling water and boil for 4 minutes then put into cold water to cool quickly

2. Meanwhile in 3 separate bowls, you need bowl 1 the flour, bowl 2 whisk the 1 egg with the milk, bowl 3 the panko crumbs

3. When eggs have cooled, peel and first coat the eggs with the flour then into the egg wash and lastly into the panko crumbs

4. Leave aside to deep fry later

For the Gammon

Ingredients

• 200g gammon slipper

• 2 cloves

• 1 orange

• 1 tablespoon of sugar

Method

1. Steep the gammon overnight in cold water in the fridge to get rid of some of the sulfites

2. Next day wash off the gammon in cold water and put into large pot, cover with lots of fresh water add the remaining ingredients and boil for approximately 1.5 hours or until tender and breaking away. When cooked leave to cool in the cooking liquor.

3. When gammon has completely cooled, remove excess fat, and tear into large chunks and leave aside.

You will also need:

• 200g of good cheddar cheese, smoked if you prefer

• Sourdough bread

• 1 baby gem lettuce cut in half and washed

• 100g of washed watercress

• Pickled vegetables

• Piccalilli

• Goose fat

To Prepare

1. Deep fry your egg for 3 minutes or until golden and crispy, leave to cool for a minute

2. Wash the gem and watercress

3. Cut the cheese into 4 even wedges

4. Slice the bread thickly smear with the goose fat and chargrill

5. Cut the eggs in half being careful not to loose all the runny yolk

To Plate

1. On each plate put half the watercress and baby gem

2. 2 large tablespoons of the pickled vegetables

3. 2 halves of the scotch egg

4. 2 of the cheese wedges

5. A good portion of the pulled gammon

6. Heaped tablespoon of the piccalilli

7. 2 chunky slices of the goose fat charred bread Serve and enjoy!