Roast Figs Sugar Snow: Food To Warm The Soul

From multi-award-winning food writer Diana Henry comes a beautifully updated edition of her beloved cold-weather cookbook, Roast Figs, Sugar Snow. Featuring seven new recipes and a new foreword by Nigel Slater, this classic celebrates the comfort and flavour of autumn and winter cooking.

Drawing on Diana’s travels through Scandinavia, the Alps, Ireland, Scotland, and New England, these recipes are filled with the rich, seasonal ingredients of the colder months—pumpkin, pomegranate, chestnuts, and warming spices. Enjoy hearty stews, baked autumnal pies, Alpine cheese dishes, and festive winter bakes, including the charming Sugar-on-Snow.

With evocative writing and deeply comforting food, this is more than a cookbook, it’s a celebration of seasonal eating, slow living, and the joy of cooking in cold weather.

Recipes include:

• Georgian Cheese Pies
• Salad of Smoked Duck with Farro, Red Chicory and Pomegranates
• Pumpkin Tarts with Spinach and Gorgonzola
• Vermont Baked Beans
• Roast Pork with Black Pudding, Apple and Mustard Sauce
• Melting Leg of Lamb with Juniper
• Snow Biscuits
• Skier’s Chocolate with Bugnes
• Roast Figs and Plums in Vodka with Cardamom Cream

New recipes to this edition include:

• Hazelnut, espresso and chocolate shortbread
• Crimson leaf, black lentil, roasted grape and walnut salad
• Beetroot and blackberry soup with walnut relish
• Pasta alla norcina
• Ham and haddie pie
• Swedish apple, almond and cardamom cake
• Plum and cardamom galette