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Favourite family recipes - made vegan

If you're looking for everyday homely vegan & plant-based recipes that feature ordinary ingredients then our family recipe collection is for you. All our recipes are vegan versions of traditional family favourites with a focus on old & vintage British recipes.

Vegan afternoon tea recipes

  • Fruit loaf cake sliced into portions on a wooden cutting board with white linen table mat with tartan trim.
    Vegan Fruit Cake
  • A close up of a cherry scone filled with jam and cream sitting on a spotty plate with pink mat underneath.
    Old-Fashioned Cherry Scones
  • Two white plates filled with jam and marmalade tarts with purple flower background, small serving plate to side with pink flower rim.
    Traditional British Jam Tarts
  • A stack of walnut celery sandwiches on yellow flower patterned plate with celery leaves to side.
    Old-Fashioned Walnut and Celery Sandwiches
  • Carrot cupcake featured image, one carrot cake sitting on a carrot image napkin with a picnic mug behind.
    Old-Fashioned Carrot Cakes
  • A ground rice cake on a red patterned vintage cake plate, with vintage tea cup and saucer, and serving plate in background, pink and white flowered table cloth.
    Old-Fashioned Ground Rice Cake
  • Old-Fashioned Applesauce Cake
  • cake on cake plate with larger cake in background.
    The Best Vegan Victoria Sponge

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Our latest recipes

These vegan recipes are hot off the press... or rather, straight from our Scottish family stove.

  • Winter vegetable pottage served in bowl with oatcakes.
    Winter Vegetable Pottage
  • Fruit cake sliced into on a serving plate.
    Vegan Cut and Come Again Cake
  • A slice of lentil pie on plate with broccoli and baked beans.
    Old-Fashioned Lentil Pie (Vintage recipe)
  • Vegan Welsh rarebit served with salad on a plate with cutlery to side, featured image.
    Vegan Welsh Rarebit
  • Featured image for the post 9 of the best vegan Scottish soup recipes.
    9 Of The Best Vegan Scottish Soup Recipes
  • Cheesy peas on toast served on lemon patterned plate with fork and knife to side, flower patterned pot in background and a green table cloth.
    Old-Fashioned Cheesy Peas On Toast
  • A festive patterned plate with mincemeat crumble traybake bars on top and small hessian plant pot to side.
    Vegan Mincemeat Crumble Traybake
  • Parsnip patties served on blue flower patterned vintage plate with matching jug to side filled with cheese sauce.
    Parsnip Patties [1940s wartime recipe]

Family favourite dinner recipes

  • Rectangular casserole tray with veggie sausage casserole and silver serving spoon, bowl of peas and corn to top, along with blue salt and pepper shakers and three slices of white crusty bread on wooden board.
    Vegan Sausage Casserole
  • Four pie dishes of hotpot baked and on a baking tray.
    Vegan Traditional Lancashire Hotpot
  • Two bowls of slow cooker lentil spaghetti Bolognese, with sprinkle of nutritional yeast, wedge of her bread, silver fork and red check tea towel, featured image.
    Slow Cooker Lentil Bolognese
  • Featured image chilli sin carne.
    Chilli Sin Carne [slow cooker & stove-top recipe]
  • Red Thai curry cooked and in pan ready to be served with a silver ladle.
    Vegan Thai Red Sweet Potato, Broccoli and Chickpea Curry
  • Close up bowl of vegan mince and tatties mixed together.
    Vegan Scottish Mince And Tatties [Slow Cooker and Stove-Top]
  • Cauliflower tikka masala in small silver curry bowl, with naan bread at side, small silver curry dish with brown rice, small brown cup to side.
    Slow Cooker Vegan Tikka Masala
  • A brown bowl filled with vegetable stew and dumplings, brown salt mill to background with blue stew pot, and plate of bread.
    Vegetable Stew and Dumplings

More Dinner Recipes →

Old school dinner favourites

  • Chocolate concrete cake sliced into 12 pieces, sitting on baking paper.
    Vegan School Dinners Chocolate Concrete Cake
  • Vegan school dinners sponge pieces sitting on top of each other.
    Vegan School Dinners Jam and Coconut Sponge
  • rice pudding in white bowl with blue rim and silver spoon in the pudding, blue background.
    Vegan Slow Cooker Rice Pudding
  • Two squares of old school dinners chocolate sponge traybake on white plate with blue flower patterns, featured image.
    Vegan Old School Chocolate Sponge

More Old School Dinner Recipes →

1940s Vintage Era Recipes

  • Close up of vegan British homity pie on a wire rack, with red and white striped tea towel underneath, red and white salt and pepper shakers to side with a flower imaged saucepan with baked beans.
    Vegan British Homity Pie [cheese, potato and veggie open pie]
  • Parsnip patties served on blue flower patterned vintage plate with matching jug to side filled with cheese sauce.
    Parsnip Patties [1940s wartime recipe]
  • a square of chocolate vinegar cake on a plate stacked on top of another plate, white doily background and cake forks on plate.
    Vintage Chocolate Vinegar Cake
  • Vegan cottage pie featured image.
    Vegan Cottage Pie [with beans & lentils]

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Traditional Scottish recipes made vegan

  • Fruit scones in long wicker basket, with white lining, tartan background.
    Edinburgh Fruit Scones
  • served Scottish potato soup in small stoneware bowl and saucer, wholemeal bread slice to side, second bowl in background, mushroom style salt and pepper shakes, brown cooking pot in background.
    Old-Fashioned Scottish Potato Soup
  • Vegan lentil soup in a small enamel cream pan with a red rim, wooden spoon, small board off to the side with pieces of bread, and a check red and white tea towel underneath.
    Vegan Scottish Lentil Soup
  • A plate of shortbread biscuits, tea pot in background with cup of tea and sugar cubes.
    Vegan Scottish Shortbread

More Scottish recipes →

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✨ All our family recipes are made with real food and are completely vegan and plant-based friendly – everyone is warmly welcome! ✨

Traditional sandwiches & salads

  • Tofu Mayonnaise Sandwich
  • vegan coronation chicken sandwich
    Vegan Coronation Chicken Sandwich
  • wooden board with vegan ploughman baguette and salad and fruit pieces at the side, small brown dish of pickled onions, small butter dish to back, and cream coloured place mat.
    Vegan Ploughman's Lunch [Sandwich or Platter]
  • carrot hotdogs with milkshake, salad basket and sauce bottles, with red check mat underneath
    Vegan Carrot Hotdogs
  • Bowl of Italian bread salad, featured image.
    Italian Bread Salad [Panzanella]
  • A stack of walnut celery sandwiches on yellow flower patterned plate with celery leaves to side.
    Old-Fashioned Walnut and Celery Sandwiches
  • close up of glass ramekin with tofu cocktail and lettuce, long glass plate under with croutons and cherry tomatoes, fish fork to side.Featured image.
    Vegan Prawn Tofu Cocktail
  • Close up photo of vegan Waldorf salad in bowl, with white and strawberry patterned tablecloth background.
    Vegan Waldorf Salad

More vegan lunch recipes →

Recently updated recipes

As this blog features our actual family recipes, they are in constant use, so we are always updating them with new, useful information, tweaks, tips, and advice as they crop up, ensuring they are at their very best.

  • Close up bowl of vegetable soup with yellow handled spoon and second bowl in background, slices of bread to side on a mat with fox image.
    Old-Fashioned Golden Vegetable Soup
  • Medieval potage stew served in a wooden bowl, with fork and spoon, little bread rolls at the side, and candlestick
    Medieval Potage Stew
  • Goulash served with garlic bread, fork to side. Featured image.
    Vegan Goulash
  • A Welsh onion cake on a serving plate with a dinner plate in background with vegan sausages and peas and corn.
    Traditional Welsh Onion Cake [Teisen Nionod]
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  • close up of chocolate pudding with chocolate pudding in background, and shortbread biscuits and strawberries in background.
    Tofu Chocolate Pudding
  • Medieval potage stew served in a wooden bowl, with fork and spoon, little bread rolls at the side, and candlestick
    Medieval Potage Stew
  • Close up bowl of vegetable soup with yellow handled spoon and second bowl in background, slices of bread to side on a mat with fox image.
    Old-Fashioned Golden Vegetable Soup

Vegan recipes for warm summer days

  • Bowl of Italian bread salad, featured image.
    Italian Bread Salad [Panzanella]
  • A stack of walnut celery sandwiches on yellow flower patterned plate with celery leaves to side.
    Old-Fashioned Walnut and Celery Sandwiches
  • A bowl of garlic oil spaghetti with tomatoes and spinach and wedge of focaccia to side, larger pot to side, and bowl of fresh spinach to side.
    Italian Garlic Spaghetti [Spaghetti Aglio e Olio]
  • wooden board with vegan ploughman baguette and salad and fruit pieces at the side, small brown dish of pickled onions, small butter dish to back, and cream coloured place mat.
    Vegan Ploughman's Lunch [Sandwich or Platter]

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