About Welsh Table

Welsh Table is a small recipe book for everyday Welsh cooking, kept online so it is always to hand in the kitchen. It brings together the dishes that have long been made in Welsh homes: a slow pot of cawl, griddle-warm Welsh cakes, a tea-soaked bara brith, a bubbling rarebit, crisp laverbread cakes for breakfast and a Sunday roast of Welsh lamb.

What you will find here

Every recipe follows the same pattern, so it is easy to cook from. At the top: how long it takes, how many it feeds and when it suits best. Then a list of ingredients with boxes to tick as you gather them, and numbered steps written to be followed at the stove, with the key action of each step in bold. Below the method come the practical notes that make the difference: how to tell when something is ready, what can be done ahead, how to store leftovers safely and what to serve alongside.

Each dish also comes with a lighter or more plant-led way to make it. These are not replacements for the original, just useful alternatives for a weekday, a mixed table or a change: butter beans instead of lamb in the cawl, oat drink in the Welsh cakes, mushrooms beside the laverbread.

The spirit of the kitchen

The cooking here is plain and generous. Ingredients are ones you can find in an ordinary shop or market, quantities are given in grams and millilitres, and oven temperatures are listed for fan, conventional and gas. Where a recipe has several family versions, the page explains the choices so you can follow your own taste.

Wales has a short, strong list of ingredients that it does very well: lamb from the hills, leeks, butter, crumbly Caerphilly cheese, oats, cockles and laver from the coast. The recipes lean on them, and on the seasons. The home page carries a small seasonal basket that changes through the year.

Printing a recipe

On every recipe page there is a print button. The printed version keeps only what is needed in the kitchen: title, timings, ingredients and method, without menus or pictures.

A note on the site itself

The pages are plain and quick to load. There are no accounts, no comments, no newsletter sign-up and nothing that follows you around the web. The ticks you place in an ingredient list stay in your browser for as long as the page is open, and are gone when you close it. For the formal details, see the legal notice.