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Old-fashioned recipes re-made vegan

A family recipe box packed with traditional and vintage recipes re-made with plant-based and vegan-friendly ingredients. We focus on traditional British recipes, but also include our family favourite recipes inspired by other cultures. All recipes are aimed to be budget-friendly and easy to prepare.

You'll find old-school puddings, 1940s frugal wartime recipes, historical recipes, and just plenty of classic comfort food homely recipes. These recipes aim to keep traditional recipes alive but with plant-based ingredients.

Our latest recipes

  • Plate of Duke Pudding with a slice removed.
    Duke Pudding (1940s Bread Pudding)
  • Witches Cauldron Beans recipe featured image.
    🧙🏼 Witches' Cauldron Beans (Vegan Halloween recipe) 🧙🏼
  • A bowl of vegan Guy Fawkes Stew served with baked potatoes, featured image.
    Vegan Old-Fashioned Stew
  • Vegan Spaghetti Carbonara served on plate with bread.
    Vegan Spaghetti Carbonara
  • Image of vintage recipe cards.
    New Series: Vintage Recipe Cards Re-Made Vegan! 🍽️
  • 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 baking recipes

  • Close up image of Scottish fruit slice piled on to a tartan patterned tray with tartan cup in background.
    Scottish Fruit Slice
  • Fruit loaf cake sliced into portions on a wooden cutting board with white linen table mat with tartan trim.
    Vegan Fruit Cake
  • Vegan seed cake on a vintage tray with pink flower pattern, antique cake knife to side, flower patterned teapot, sugar dish, milk jug, and tea cup and saucer to side, crochet tablecloth background.
    Old-Fashioned Seed Cake
  • Long wooden chopping board with Weetabix cake slices and large piece of cake unsliced, wooden handled knife to side, frilly linen placemat underneath, featured image.
    Old-Fashioned Weetabix Loaf Cake
  • 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
  • all bran cinnamon loaf on white plate with wooden handled knife, sprinkle of all bran cereal, sticks of cinnamon, white doily background. Featured image.
    All-Bran Loaf Cake
  • cake on cake plate with larger cake in background.
    The Best Vegan Victoria Sponge
  • Vegan school dinners sponge pieces sitting on top of each other.
    Vegan School Dinners Jam and Coconut Sponge

More vegan baking recipes →

Vegan dinner recipes

  • 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
  • Vegan Meat and Potato Pie
  • A blue and white patterned plate with vegan coq au vin served with mashed potatoes and green beans, bread rolls to side with salt and pepper shakers.
    Vegan Coq Au Vin (roast cauliflower steaks in a rich mushroom & onion stew)
  • Red Thai curry cooked and in pan ready to be served with a silver ladle.
    Vegan Thai Red Sweet Potato, Broccoli and Chickpea Curry
  • A circular vegan savoury mince round pie cooling on wire rack with blue and white check tea towel underneath.
    Vegan Scottish Mince Round [Savoury Pie]
  • Four pie dishes of hotpot baked and on a baking tray.
    Vegan Traditional Lancashire Hotpot
  • Vegan cottage pie featured image.
    Vegan Cottage Pie [with beans & lentils]
  • Close up bowl of vegan mince and tatties mixed together.
    Vegan Scottish Mince And Tatties [Slow Cooker and Stove-Top]

More vegan dinner recipes →

Vegan soup recipes

  • 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
  • green flowered pattern bowl of old-fashioned pea soup with second bowl in background, loaf of fresh baked bread to side.
    Old-Fashioned Pea Soup
  • Close up of small soup tureen filled with vegan Scottish Cullen skink soup and second bowl to side with silver spoon to side sitting on a white doiley placemat, mini butter dish with slices of bread in distance, featured image.
    Vegan Scottish Cullen Skink 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
  • 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
  • A bowl of vegan pea and 'ham' soup in green patterned bowl, with green handled spoons, white doily underneath, bread slices on green plate in background, small jug with cream and green and white striped table cloth.
    Slow Cooker Vegan Pea and 'Ham' Soup
  • Featured image for Irish Potato Soup.
    Old-fashioned Irish Potato Soup
  • two bowls of yellow split pea soup on a yellow and white striped table cloth, cream jug to side, bread with slices on wooden board, black salt and pepper shakers, and a piece of vegan cheese.
    Slow Cooker Yellow Split Pea and Fennel Soup

More vegan soup 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! ✨

Vegan pasta recipes

  • spaghetti Bolognese served in two white bowls with silver forks.
    Vegan Spaghetti Bolognese (with tempeh)
  • Goulash served with garlic bread, fork to side. Featured image.
    Vegan Goulash
  • Close up pan of Polish vegan cabbage and noodles with grey ladle and grey background with a touch of red at the bottom of photo, featured image.
    Vegan Cabbage and Noodles
  • Vegan Spaghetti Carbonara served on plate with bread.
    Vegan Spaghetti Carbonara
  • 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]
  • A dark brown clay bowl with Mexican noodle soup, lime wedge and silver spoon in bowl, and wedge of crusty bread to side.
    Vegan Mexican Noodle Soup (With Black Beans And Corn)
  • Quick vegan cheesy pasta served in white bowl with green flower background, featured image.
    Quick Vegan Cheesy Pasta
  • chilli mac served in blue bowl with fork.
    Vegan Chilli Macaroni Cheese

Have a look through the entire vegan recipe collection →

Vintage milk pudding recipes

Perfect for snuggling up on the sofa and watching something good on TV.

  • Featured image, tray with semolina pudding and mug of tea, nutmeg and zester to side, saucepan with semolina to back, jam pot to side and second bowl of pudding to side.
    British Semolina Pudding
  • rice pudding in white bowl with blue rim and silver spoon in the pudding, blue background.
    Vegan Slow Cooker Rice Pudding
  • Featured image for sweet barley pudding.
    Sweet Barley Pudding [slow cooker & stove-top recipe]
  • Chocolate custard pudding served in small glass with vegan cream and raspberry and strawberry garnish, tea cup full of cream to side, and red polka dot bowl filled with strawberries, pink plate to side with shortbread biscuits, and second chocolate custard pudding in background, brown polka dot table cloth.
    Vegan Chocolate Custard Pudding

More vegan desserts & pudding recipes →

Classic British Family Meals

Nobody will miss the meat in these delicious British classic family meal recipes.

  • 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]
  • 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
  • Slow cooker vegan beef stew and dumplings ready to eat in white bowl with blue rim, spoon at side of plate
    Slow Cooker Vegan Beef Stew and Dumplings

More vegan stew & casserole 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.

  • A red bowl of vegan stroganoff with pot of green veggies to side and glimpse of brown plate with brown rolls.
    Vegan Traditional Stroganoff
  • A red serving bowl filled with Hungarian pepper soup and garnished with sour cream and parsley, more parsley to side and chunks of bread to side, red table cloth background.
    Hungarian Pepper Soup [Vegetables, Potatoes, Rice, Paprika!]
  • Vegan Easter Cornflake Cakes on a white plate with vegan mini eggs on top of each cake and a linen table runner with writing stating 'happy Easter', rabbit placemat image and peach tulips to side/featured image.
    Vegan Chocolate Cornflake Cakes
  • Close up of camp fire stew in large mug served with pasta and chopped chives.
    Vegan Campfire Stew [slow cooker & stove-top recipe]
Photo of Jacq the admin wearing sunglasses, outside with trees in background and blue skies.

Welcome to my collection of traditional family favourite recipes. You will find old-fashioned recipes re-made with vegan-friendly every-day ingredients.

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Vegan Chocolate Pudding (Chocolate Mousse)

Takes literally minutes to prepare and no cooking required! Perfect for an easy festive pudding. It's fresh and light, just 4 ingredients, and rich in delicious chocolate flavour. No-one will be able to taste the tofu!

  • close up of chocolate pudding with chocolate pudding in background, and shortbread biscuits and strawberries in background.
    Tofu Chocolate Pudding

Bake off the month!

  • Long wooden chopping board with Weetabix cake slices and large piece of cake unsliced, wooden handled knife to side, frilly linen placemat underneath, featured image.
    Old-Fashioned Weetabix Loaf Cake

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