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Old-fashioned recipes re-made vegan

Our family recipe box collection of vintage, retro, historical recipes, re-made with everyday, vegan-friendly ingredients. Recipes aim to focus on traditional British but you'll also find family favourites inspired by other cuisines. All recipes are tried and tested, budget-friendly, and easy to prepare.

🐰Happy Easter Recipes! 🐰

These dessert recipes are also perfect for spring, especially a family picnic, but we love them all year round.

  • 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
  • Carrot cupcake featured image, one carrot cake sitting on a carrot image napkin with a picnic mug behind.
    Old-Fashioned Carrot Cakes
  • Featured image for vegan rice crispy cakes.
    Vegan Chocolate Rice Crispy Cakes [No-Bake]
  • Close up of peanut butter cornflake cake, featured image.
    Vegan Peanut Butter Cornflake Cakes
  • vegan lemon drizzle cake close up on wooden board, featured image.
    Vegan Lemon Drizzle 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
  • 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

More vegan baking recipes →

🥕Vegan Easter Dinner Recipe Ideas 🥕

These meat-free, dairy-free, and egg-free recipes are ideal for main meals especially for a vegan or vegetarian roast dinner.

  • 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]
  • 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]
  • 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
  • Vegan Meat and Potato 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]
  • 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]
  • Featured image for vegan vegetables au gratin, close up of scalloped bowl of au gratin with wooden handled fork, and tea towel with the word 'gather'.
    Vegan Traditional Vegetables Au Gratin

More vegan dinner recipes →

Deliciously easy vegan soup recipes 🥣

These recipes are perfect for starting a special meal such as Easter dinner but they are equally great for a tasty lunch.

  • 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
  • Three small bowls of cream of swede soup with wholemeal croutons, small cream jug to side, and spoon handles to side, linen and crochet place mats, featured image.
    Old Fashioned Cream Of Swede Soup (Rutabaga) With Crispy Croutons
  • A close up bowl of carrot and cumin soup with walnut and parsley garnish, large spoon with carrot image, mat with rabbit image, and plate to side with crackers, white table cloth background.
    Tasty Carrot And Cumin 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
  • Scottish traditional leek and potato soup in white bowl with small pan of toasted oats to side, water cup to side, and frilly placemat, featured image.
    Traditional Scottish Potato & Leek Soup (With Toasted Oats)
  • A bowl of spring greens soup with silver spoon, bread basket with bread slices in background, second bowl of soup to side, and colourful floral table cloth.
    British Spring Greens Soup
  • Cream of kale and celery soup in a brown rimmed bowl with a basket style placemat and dark wooden spoon to side, yellow tablecloth, featured image.
    Cream of Kale and Celery 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! ✨

Easy Vegan Pasta Recipes 🍝

These recipes are no-fuss pasta recipes perfect for easy to prepare meals.

  • 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

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 Old-Fashioned Stew
  • 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
  • Featured image for the post 9 of the best vegan Scottish soup recipes.
    9 Of The Best Vegan Scottish Soup Recipes

Have a look through the entire vegan recipe collection →

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 →

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
  • Close up image of Scottish fruit slice piled on to a tartan patterned tray with tartan cup in background.
    Scottish Fruit Slice
  • 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!]
  • Close up of camp fire stew in large mug served with pasta and chopped chives.
    Vegan Campfire Stew [slow cooker & stove-top recipe]
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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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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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