Egg Drop Soup with Sweetcorn Egg drop soup is the sort of dish that sounds like a takeaway treat but is actually one of the cheapest things you can make from ...

Cheese Scones Cheese scones are the savoury cousin of the cream tea scone, and arguably the better one. They cost very little to make, use ingredients most ...

Ham and Cheese Omelette The omelette is the cafe classic that never costs much to make. Two eggs, a bit of ham and a handful of grated cheddar come together ...

Liverpool Scouse Scouse is the stew that named the people, a sailor's lobscouse carried into Liverpool through the port and cooked so long and so cheaply that ...

Cream Tea Scones Scones are the cheapest thing in the bakery and the most expensive thing in the tea room, which makes them the clearest case for baking at ...

Cornish Pasties A proper Cornish pasty is a whole meal engineered for a working day: raw beef, potato and swede sealed inside shortcrust, so the filling ...

Bara Brith Bara brith means speckled bread in Welsh, and it is the most useful cake in Britain: no butter to cream, no method to get wrong, just dried fruit ...

Cottage Pie Cottage pie is the dish every British budget cookbook should open with, because it is the whole argument for home cooking in one tin. Value mince, ...

Homemade Mushy Peas Mushy peas cost pennies from dried marrowfat peas and over a pound from a tin, and the homemade version actually tastes of peas. A slow ...

Sussex Pond Pudding Sussex pond pudding is one of the great theatre pieces of British cooking. A suet pastry is lined with butter and sugar, a whole lemon is ...