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Sunday Sauce by James Ramsden

A weekly newsletter containing notes and recipes for well-fed Sundays

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Sep 26, 2026
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  1. Issue · Sep 26, 2026

    Sauce #114 | Jellycake (opens the original)

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    Write something about trifle. Tell a story about an aunt. Mention sherry. Take a digression on the subject of ladyfingers; glace cherries; custard. Throw in a pun about how it’s not ‘trifling’ at all. Finish by observing how even the most ardent trifle avoiders will simply love this trifle. Here’s the recipe.Look, let’s take this seriously though. It was my friend Daisy’s birthday and I said I’d make a trifle. There was a large kilner jar of plums on the side that I’d been macerating in brandy a

  2. Issue · Sep 18, 2026

    Sauce #113 | Kittens & Hoggets (opens the original)

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  3. Issue · Sep 11, 2026

    Sauce #112 | Luxury Jacket Potatoes (opens the original)

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    Jacket potatoes were something of a lottery, growing up.We had an Aga, of course. If you lived in the countryside in the 1990s you pretty much had to. There was a time when I would at this point have extemporised on the idiocy of the Aga (I even wrote a piece about it for the Guardian which seems to have been scrubbed from the face of the online earth (tip of the cap to the sub-editor, though, who came up with the headline ‘The Aga Can’t’))*; on how ridiculous it is to spend several hundred poun

  4. Issue · Aug 19, 2026

    Sauce #111 | Planet Isle of Wight (opens the original)

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    Hello, and welcome to Sunday Sauce, a weekly-ish dispatch from the best day of the week on which to cook. This week’s recipes include, in no particular order:butter-roasted scallops with a paltry amount of samphiregild-eggs (a Holy Alliance of devilled eggs and gilda)‘guilty pleasure’ of smoked oyster toastsgood old potato saladsmoked oyster caesar salad dressingsaving the best till last, grilled tuna with confit tomatoes, beans, and potatoes<a class="button

  5. Issue · Aug 6, 2026

    Sauce #110 | Broken Window Theory (opens the original)

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