GENErations of family recipes help to GENErate money on
Jeans for Genes Day!

Top celebrity chefs share their family favourites for Friday 3rd October 2008

June 2008

Sophie Grigson Photo: Celebritychefsuk.com

The 2008 Jeans for Genes Day Campaign has asked top chefs to share family recipes to encourage people to cook and gene-rate funds from delicious cakes, puddings and biscuits on Jeans for Genes Day on Friday 3rd October 2008.

The popular fundraising event encourages millions of people to wear their jeans instead of the usual uniform or work clothes and to make a donation.

Taking the theme of ‘generations’  this year, Jeans for Genes has collected favourite family recipes from top chefs to encourage supporters to get cooking and sell treats to friends and family to help fill the collection boxes on the Day.

Luminaries of the cookery world such as Marguerite Patten OBE, James Martin, Sophie Grigson and Andrew Nutter have contributed much loved family recipes for supporters to follow.

All of the recipes can be found on the charity’s website: www.jeansforgenes.com. 

For example, Sophie Grigson (right) has contributed her great grandmother’s recipe for ‘Poor Knights of Windsor’ (a delicious dish of fried bread with raspberries), whilst Tom Aikens encourages us to remember the joys of the hot buttered teacake.

Andrew Nutter has shared his family’s honeycomb recipe and James Martin’s (below) grandmother’s banana caramel shortbread will make the perfect teatime treat.

James Martin Photo: celebritychefsuk.com

James says: “This is a dish I remember my gran making when she used to make millionaire’s shortbread.  I never told her which tasted the best but I had to fight my sister for the burnt bits on the oven tray!”

Alan Coxon shares his grandmother’s Victoria sponge recipe, a favourite from childhood teas on a Sunday afternoon.

And Antony Worrall Thompson adds a savoury treat with his grandmother’s recipe for kedgeree – register for a fundraising pack and find out why it was the only thing she knew how to cook!

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For further information about Jeans for Genes and these and other recipes, please contact: lisa.pettifer@jeansforgenes.com  Tel: 020 7 199 3306