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A numbered record of the canteen on Clifton Street, Cardiff

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Recipes

Dishes from the canteen kitchen, written so a home cook can follow them.

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A wooden crate of purple sprouting broccoli and leeks on a stainless steel canteen counter, cold February morning light from a side window, shot at counter height with the crate in the foreground and a stockpot behind.
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Farmhouse Seasonality on a Canteen Menu

A canteen menu leans on farmhouse seasonality: the vegetables that arrive first, how a farmhouse turns a surplus into a dish, and what a canteen can borrow.

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A dark green tinned laverbread opened on a scrubbed wooden table beside a rasher of dry-cured bacon and a wedge of crumbly pale cheese, with a thin grey light from a Cardiff terrace window falling across the tin.
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Laverbread Roulade and the Welsh Larder

Laverbread roulade, its Welsh ingredients, and what a back-country larder teaches about preserving and reusing what is close at hand.

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The Canteen Ledger

The Canteen Ledger is an independent editorial record of the Canteen on Clifton Street, Cardiff, written from the archive, the local press and the recipes kept in print.

The Ledger does not take bookings, does not publish prices and does not speak for the canteen. People, suppliers and the press named in an entry are described in the third person; none of them publishes this site.

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