Simnel Cake for Easter: Recipe + More
Simnel cake is traditionally eaten at Easter. It is a light fruit cake with the added bonus of a layer of cooked marzipan in the middle that gives it a lovely moist chewy texture. This recipe is based on Elizabeth Ayrton’s in her Penguin Handbook, The Cookery of England. All the ingredients are available from […]
Making Pancakes on Shrove Tuesday?
We have everything you need for making and filling your pancakes! For the Pancakes Local free-range eggs, butter and oils, fresh lemons and bottled juice, sugars and all sorts of flours, many organic, from Doves, Gilchesters, Shipton Mill and The Watermill, Little Salkeld, including: Wheat Spelt Buckwheat Rye Barley Gluten- free and Isabel’s gluten and […]
2021 Opening Hours + Pick and Pack Service
For those not comfortable with entering the shop at the moment, we are continuing to offer our pick and pack service. Simply email or telephone your order for collection at the door.
Lemon & Myrtle cleaning paste
Humble Stuff Cleaning Paste is a pleasure to use because of the wonderful natural fresh aroma which lifts your spirits – and it does a good job of the cleaning too.
Slack’s of Cumbria bacon is back – and streaky too!
We are delighted to have the superb Slack’s bacon back in stock! We take great care to source local, ethical and tasty food, which sometimes means that the supply chain that brings relatively small amounts of quality stock to us are rather complex. This was the case with Slack’s bacon, and unfortunately a while ago […]
Welcome back into our shop!
We’ve been missing seeing you in the shop, browsing the shelves and selecting from our large range of carefully sourced groceries. So we are taking measures to ensure that we can safely welcome you back inside the shop from Monday 22 June. At the door we will be offering hand sanitiser and would appreciate if […]
Our Virtual Cheese Cabinet
We look forward to welcoming you back to our cheese cabinet one day, but until then here is a gallery of our core range of cheeses which you can order through our Pick and Pack Service. In more normal times we also offer an ever changing range of additional local and seasonal cheeses. Click on […]
Pick & Pack Service + Deliveries and Changed Opening Hours at Alston Wholefoods
21 June Update We are continuing to offer our Pick & Pack service to all our customers. Please let us know what you need by email, phone or handwritten note, in advance. We will pack your shopping and let you know when it is ready for collection, or we can arrange a free delivery. When […]
Easter Eggs and Treats
As well as our usual range of Fairtrade, organic, dairy free and vegan chocolates, we have some special treats for Easter: From Montezuma Montezuma’s Clara Chick: Dark Chocolate Chick with Dark Chocolate Buttons (£5.99) Montezuma’s Charlie Chick: Milk Chocolate Chick with Milk Chocolate Buttons (£5.99) Montezuma’s Connie Chick: Milk Chocolate Alternative Like no Udder Chick […]
