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Traditional recipes re-made vegan

This is my family's recipe collection of traditional, vintage, retro, historical, and old-fashioned recipes re-made with everyday vegan friendly ingredients. Recipes are mainly British but we love all cuisines so include our traditional favourites from other cultures. All recipes use every-day ingredients, tried and tested, budget-friendly, and easy to prepare.

💫 Let's ring the bells with good cheer! We wish you all a Happy New Year! 💫

Here are a few family favourite traditional Hogmanay or New Year's Eve buffet recipes re-made with ordinary easy to source vegan-friendly ingredients.

  • Fruit loaf cake sliced into portions on a wooden cutting board with white linen table mat with tartan trim.
    Vegan Fruit Cake
  • A plate of shortbread biscuits, tea pot in background with cup of tea and sugar cubes.
    Vegan Scottish Shortbread
  • Scottish smiddy dumpling featured image, slices of cake on tartan napkin on circle chopping board, with tea towel with the text 'happy new year'.
    Scottish Smiddy Dumpling [Vegan]
  • Close up of clootie dumpling on festive leaves decorated plate, white frosted pinecones to background, small robin cake ornament to side.
    Microwave Scottish Clootie Dumpling
  • 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
  • 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
  • Red patterned plate with four British vegan fairy cakes and kola sweeties, roses on white tablecloth, small dish of sweets, small red plate with one fairy cake, teapot to back, featured image.
    Vegan Fairy Cakes
  • Vegan Top Hat Treats [Chocolate Marshmallows]

More vegan baking recipes →

🎊 New Year's Day starter or lunch recipes 🎊

  • Close up photo of vegan Waldorf salad in bowl, with white and strawberry patterned tablecloth background.
    Vegan Waldorf Salad
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

More vegan recipes: soup, salad, side & sandwich recipes →

🎉 New Year's Day main course & dinner recipes 🎉

  • Vegan Meat and Potato Pie
  • A vegan chicken pie on a green trivet with flower patterned gravy jug in background with plates to side, bright colourful flower tablecloth.
    Vegan Chicken Pie
  • 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]
  • 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)
  • Vegan Scottish stovies featured image.
    Vegan Scottish Stovies
  • Vegan haggis on a white serving plate with slices cut, brown handled knife to side and blue and white check table cloth background.
    The Best Vegan Scottish Haggis [Microwave & Oven Recipe]
  • Close up bowl of vegan mince and tatties mixed together.
    Vegan Scottish Mince And Tatties [Slow Cooker and Stove-Top]
  • vegan traditional meatloaf with chickpeas, green lentils and oatmeal on chopping board, with knife, and bowl of mashed potatoes, small pot of Brussel sprouts and carrots, and gravy dish to side, featured image.
    Easy Vegan Meatloaf [with chickpeas, oatmeal & lentils]

More vegan dinner recipes →

✨ New Year's Day Puddings & Desserts ✨

  • Slice of Welsh apple cake with cream poured over, small Welsh dragon ornament in front, apples in background with a teapot, featured image.
    Welsh Apple Cake [Teisen Fala]
  • Close up of clootie dumpling on festive leaves decorated plate, white frosted pinecones to background, small robin cake ornament to side.
    Microwave Scottish Clootie Dumpling
  • Slice of wartime Christmas pudding sitting on pink plate with cream, and tiny robin ornament, large pudding in distance.
    Old-Fashioned Christmas Pudding (WW2 British War Era Recipe)
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    Traditional Steamed Jam Pudding or Golden Syrup Pudding [slow cooker & stove top recipe]
  • spotted dick pudding on a blue rimmed white serving plate with blue and white check table cloth, custard and cream jugs to side, Featured Image.
    Slow Cooker Steamed Spotted Dick Pudding
  • 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
  • close up of chocolate pudding with chocolate pudding in background, and shortbread biscuits and strawberries in background.
    Tofu Chocolate Pudding
  • A white serving plate with a whole treacle tart sliced into 8 pieces, each slice with a raspberry garnish, British flag teapot with matching cup in background, red tea cloth background.
    Vegan Treacle Tart

More vegan puddings & desserts →

📜 Our latest recipes 📜

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

  • 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 Guy Fawkes Stew (Easy Bonfire Night Dinner)
  • 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 Welsh rarebit served with salad on a plate with cutlery to side, featured image.
    Vegan Welsh Rarebit

🥛 Cosy 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 →

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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 Festive Party Recipes 🥳

  • Red patterned plate with four British vegan fairy cakes and kola sweeties, roses on white tablecloth, small dish of sweets, small red plate with one fairy cake, teapot to back, featured image.
    Vegan Fairy Cakes
  • Vegan Gingerbread Men
  • Vegan Top Hat Treats [Chocolate Marshmallows]
  • 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

More Vegan Party & Celebration recipes →

🍪 Cookie & biscuit season vegan recipes 🍪

  • two plates of walnut cookies with small dish of walnuts in background along with two cups with bird images, autumn leaves decor and orange table runner.
    Old-Fashioned Walnut Cookies
  • vegan gingerbread cookies iced and on a black wire rack.
    Old-Fashioned Gingerbread Biscuits
  • A plate filled with double chocolate chip cookies with white teapot and cup and saucer in background.
    Vegan Double Chocolate Chip Cookies
  • Traditional parkin biscuits on a flower patterned plate, with small sugar cube dish to side and white doily tablecloth.
    Traditional Parkin Biscuits

More vegan cookies & biscuits 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 of camp fire stew in large mug served with pasta and chopped chives.
    Vegan Campfire Stew [slow cooker & stove-top recipe]
  • 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
  • Two bowls of oatmeal leek broth on tray, with green flower tea towel, green and white celtic cross to side, white jug of cream to side, shamrock background,featured image.
    Irish Leek and Oatmeal Broth (Brotchan Roi)
  • plate of creamed chickpeas on toasted bread with wooden handle fork and knife to side, brown mat and brown small cup, grey pepper pot to side and small glimpse of cooking pan with chickpeas. Featured image.
    Old-Fashioned Creamed Chickpeas

🌟 ''We Wish You A Wonderful Happy New Year!'' 🌟


🌨️ Easy Veganuary recipes! 🌨️

These recipes are cosy, easy to prepare, packed with flavour and vegetables, and adapted from traditional meals, so they are the perfect introduction to vegan and plant-based diets, as well as for homely everyday meals throughout the year.

  • spaghetti Bolognese served in two white bowls with silver forks.
    Vegan Spaghetti Bolognese (with tempeh)
  • Vegan vegetable hotpot baked golden and crispy, sitting on red tea towel on wooden board.
    The Best Vegetable Hotpot
  • 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 cottage pie featured image.
    Vegan Cottage Pie [with beans & lentils]
  • Close up of camp fire stew in large mug served with pasta and chopped chives.
    Vegan Campfire Stew [slow cooker & stove-top recipe]
  • Red lentil and kale dahl cooked in pan and ready to serve, red velvet background.
    Budget-Friendly Lentil Dahl
  • vegan smoky tofu kedgeree
    Vegan Kedgeree
  • Medieval potage stew served in a wooden bowl, with fork and spoon, little bread rolls at the side, and candlestick
    Medieval Potage Stew
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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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Warm cosy vegan stew recipes 🍲

  • vegan beef stew in a white enamel bowl with a blue rim on top of a white plate, with crusty bread on the side, and silver spoon in the stew
    Vegan Traditional British Beef Stew
  • White bowl with vegan chicken stew and dumplings with spoon, salt dish to side, white background.
    Vegan Chicken Stew And Dumplings
  • 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
  • skillet pan full of Spanish chickpea stew with ladle, red background with bread tray to side with tomato bread and olive oil jug to side, featured image.
    Spanish Chickpea Stew

New Series: British Vintage Recipe Box Set Recipe Cards Re-Made as Vegan! 📜

Go to the first 7 vegan dinner recipes & 7 pudding & dessert recipes ➡️

Week one featured image for recipe card series

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

12th January Twelfth Night / Plough Monday recipe

Plough Monday is a centuries old custom that marked the end of the festivities as agricultural workers returned to work. But first the workers would dance and sing through the streets to raise money, and if you were a bad sport and didn't contribute you might have found your garden ploughed up! Historically, cosy pea soups were traditional meals that warmed everyone up during those chilly long January days.

  • 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

Fruit tea breads are centuries old and are the ideal frugal family recipe for filling up hungry tummies. This Weetabix loaf cake is a British long-standing family favourite.

  • 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

Classic British Family Dinner Recipes

British food has long been inspired by other cuisines, with many adapted recipes now considered traditional British fare and staple family meals.

  • 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]
  • Cobbler in slow cooker with serving spoon scooping a portion out.
    Vegan Savoury Mince Cobbler [slow cooker]
  • Plate with lasagna slice, fork and knife, second plate to side and baking dish to side, tan background.
    Vegan Lentil Lasagna
  • 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
  • Vegan Spaghetti Carbonara served on plate with bread.
    Vegan Spaghetti Carbonara
  • Quick vegan cheesy pasta served in white bowl with green flower background, featured image.
    Quick Vegan Cheesy Pasta

Vintage scone recipes

Ideal for festive breakfast, brunch or snack

  • Treacle scone close up, scone filled with strawberry jam and spoon with jam in front, red and white jam pot in background with small white butter dish.
    Old-Fashioned Scottish Treacle Scones
  • 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
  • Fruit scones in long wicker basket, with white lining, tartan background.
    Edinburgh Fruit Scones
  • Two cheese scones on a small yellow-rimmed plate with flower image, white doily mat, soup cup with images of tomatoes to distance and more doily's, wooden board background.
    Old-Fashioned Cheese Scones [Vegan]

Our family vegan versions of take-out & fake-away recipes perfect for movie nights

  • Vegan Loaded Potato Wedges featured image.
    Loaded Potato Wedges
  • Red Thai curry cooked and in pan ready to be served with a silver ladle.
    Vegan Thai Red Sweet Potato, Broccoli and Chickpea Curry
  • vegan Mongolian beef and broccoli cooked in grey and white wok with rice noodles and spring onion garnish, grey background, featured image.
    Vegan Beef and Broccoli
  • Aloo Gobi cooked and ready to serve in a large Wok, red and white stripy background.
    Aloo Gobi [Cauliflower and Potato Curry]
  • side view of pan with saag aloo with coriander garnish, 2 Balti dishes of yellow rice to side, yellow mat under pan, brown ruffled mat and green background.
    Vegan Saag Aloo [Potatoes And Spinach]
  • sweet peanut tofu served with stir fry veggies and noodles in white bowl, close up photo, featured image
    Sweet and Sticky Tofu Satay
  • 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 pot of curry with serving spoon to side.
    Vegan Jalfrezi Curry

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