Summer Menu 2024 – The plan for the day

Welcome the arrival of Summer with our specially curated menu, bursting with the bright, fresh tastes of the season’s bounty.
Summer Menu 2024

Let’s talk about the Summer menu. We have been raising money for charity through the Dedham Supper Club for 10 years now and so we have had quite a few dishes to choose from for this first of our menus we are inviting everyone to produce. We’ve picked dishes that we know work well because […]
Summer Menu 2024 – Shopping List

This shopping list assumes you will cook for 12 people. You can scale up and down accordingly. Don’t forget to include your team! Top-tip: If you go to each individual recipe, you’re able to change the serving size and the ingredient quantities will be calculated for you! General Ingredients: Starter – Goats Cheese and Beetroot […]
Goat’s cheese and beetroot with candied pecans and dressed salad

For the starter we have four components. Fresh beetroot which we shall roast, goat’s cheese which we shall marinate in thyme oil and then grill just before serving, pecans which we candy with a bit of icing sugar and dressed lettuce. We normally use the standard red beetroot because it is almost always available and […]
Lettuce Soup

Always a good talking point – the now famous lettuce soup. Soups are easy to make but not so easy to make really well. The trick with a good soup is to have a depth of flavour. What this means for us is that the soup should be dominated by the core flavour but should […]
Black Bread

To accompany the soup, this is a fantastic black bread. We make it because very few people are familiar with black bread; you don’t normally find it in the shops and so like the soup it becomes a good talking point. The recipe we are using is based on one we saw originally in a […]
Vegetarian Wellington

We always have a vegetarian option and this one has been very successful – even popular with the meat-eaters. We know it must be good because we got it from Gordon Ramsey (not personally!) and it does not get much better than that. Everyone knows Beef Wellinton – a beef filet baked in pastry. This […]
Pork Tenderloin

Pork tenderloin is a relatively cheap cut and is easily cooked. In this recipe, we shall wrap the pork in pancetta, lemon and rosemary before baking in the over.
Ratatouille

The meat and the vegetarian option both sit on a bed of ratatouille – we try to keep both options as similar as possible. The ratatouille is very simple to make. It is a pizzaiola sauce – which is simply tinned tomatoes simmered with herbs – with sauteed red onion, red pepper, courgette (zucchini) and […]
Rhubarb Sorbet

We have been having sorbets as part of part of the menu since the very first Dedham Supper. In the early days we made it as a test and then, because they were so popular, they became part of the regular menu. Guests tell us that they almost never make sorbets and quite often people […]