Give the gift of cooking

from scratch

Getting back to basics

Larder is about getting back to basics. It's about finding or rediscovering the simple pleasure of cooking from scratch. Not by being restrained by a cookery book and lists of intimidating ingredients, but rather by learning a set of skills from a recipe book and using these as the building blocks to unleash your own intuition for combining flavors. Allowing the use of what's available as you open the cupboard doors in your own kitchen.

Larder doesn’t want to intervene in your cooking style. It simply wants to provide you with the knowledge and ingredients you need to cook delicious, satisfying meals that you’ll enjoy. Through a combination of excellent food writing and thoughtfully sourced ingredients, Larder hopes to make the daily ritual of eating an essence to the fabric of all our routines, no matter when we learnt to cook.

Our First Box

Each of our boxes contains a recipe book (your guide), some key hero ingredients, and essential cooking tools. Our boxes are made from mycelium and agricultural waste, and can be used as a live material to grow your own herbs. The box itself is entirely compostable, so you can feel good about reducing your environmental impact.

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Build your skills book First in the series

The 140 recipes are doable and delicious, filled with ideas for cooking ahead or cooking alone and the kind of unfussy food that makes everyday life taste better.
Author: Bee Wilson

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Ingredients and key tools what's cooking

Our first box, curated in collaboration with the launch of the book, The Secret of Cooking by Bee Wilson is a toolkit. We hope it will inspire you to form the building blocks for your own daily cooking and creativity in the kitchen.
Price: £230 – 30 days pre-order

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The living boxgrow and compost

Our boxes are made from mycelium and agricultural waste, and can be used as a live material to grow your own herbs. The box itself is entirely compostable, so you can feel good about reducing your environmental impact.
Eco credentials

The Secret of Cooking

Bee Wilson, Klein

The Secret of Cooking is packed with solutions for how to make life in the kitchen work better for you, whether you are cooking for yourself or for a crowd.

Bee shows you how to get a meal on the table when you’re tired and stretched for time, how to season properly, cook onions (or not) and what equipment really helps.

The 140 recipes are doable and delicious, filled with ideas for cooking ahead or cooking alone and the kind of unfussy food that makes everyday life taste better.

Box no.1 contents

Bee Wilson Cookbook The Secret of Cooking – Klein

Spider Skimmer – Borough Kitchen

Knife Sharpener – Borough Kitchen

Box Grater – Dexam

2 x Pinch Pots – Mud Australia

Organic Fennel Seeds (40g)– Steenbergs

Organic Japanese Sushi Ginger (105g) – Clearspring

Organic Japanese Rice Vinegar (250ml) – Clearspring

Crete Single Estate Extra Virgin Olive Oil (500ml) – Citizens of Soil

Organic Chickpeas (700g) – Bold Bean Co.

Organic White Beans (700g) – Bold Bean Co.

Dehusked Kentish Cobnuts Gift Bag (227g) – Kentish Cobnuts

Oyster Mushroom and Beetroot Salt (40g) – Slad Valley

Oyster Mushroom and Garlic Salt (40g) – Slad Valley

Dark Chocolate (130g) – UP

Dark Chocolate (70g) – Ocelot

Selection of 4 Lincolnshire grown herbs – Stevens of Sibsey

This first box has been curated in collaboration with the launch of the book, The Secret of Cooking by Bee Wilson. The box is a mixture of tools and ingredients which form key essentials in Bee’s kitchen. We hope this toolkit will inspire you to form the building blocks for your own daily cooking and creativity in the kitchen.

Planet-friendly packaging

Mycelium is essentially the root structure of fungus. A combination of agricultural feedstock together with the unique binding strength of mycelium produces a completely natural material that is lightweight, strong and offers a fantastic alternative to fossil fuel-derived options.

For obvious reasons Larder has opted to use the planet-friendly, protective packaging for our boxes.

The real magic of this mushroom-inspired material is that it literally starts life growing to fill moulds (so can be shaped to take on almost any form) and continues by allowing buyers to grow other ingredients in it!

Entangled Life

Winner of the Wainwright Prize for Writing on Global Conservation 2021

Winner of the Royal Society Prize 2021

Shortlisted for the British Book Awards Non-Fiction Narrative Book of the Year 2021

This book is vision-changing, food for the mind and prefectly complements Larder Box No.2 natural cooking ingredients.

More about the wine… Grower: Nicole Tapon AOC: Saint-Georges-Saint-Emilionn Vintage: 2015 Ethos: Organic, Low Intervention Style: Classic Cépages: 100% Merlot Noir Vine Age: 50 years Soils: Red clay & Asterias Limestone next to the Saint Georges Lavoir & Roman Church Viticulture and Vinification: Late winter pruning delays budburst, protecting from winter frosts. Hand harvest Merlot, then Cabs 2 weeks later. Concrete fermentation, Oak maturation in 1st 2nd and 3rd-year-old barrels. Unfined, unfiltered and low S02 added at bottling.

Box no.2 contents

Lion’s Mane Mushroom Grow Kit

Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake

Malloreddus Pasta Hand made in London Fields, East London by two Chefs from Verona

Pummarola Sauce San Marzano tomato sauce hand made and bottled in London Fields .This pasta and sauce is a classic staple of every Italian household and forms the base from which to build and start your culinary journey. Add layers such as anchovy, tuna or other pairings you feel might flavour match.

Sage Dried Sage which is known as the miracle herb, a classic of the Italian kitchen and can be used with the mushrooms to create a marinade or simple herby sauce to cook your mushroom steaks in.

Wooden Spoon Handmade spoon perfect for sauteing. Made of Elm from Perthshire

Wine Saint George Saint Emillion 2015 - Vintage

The Box Our boxes are made from mycelim and agricultural waste and can be used as a live. material to grow your own herbs. The box itself is entirely compostable and can feed directly into your garden.

Lions Mane Powder This 100% Lions Mane fruiting body made into a fine power. Perfect to add to your coffee for improved cognitive function, helps with anxiety and depression.

Lion’s Mane Mushroom

Large, shaggy mushrooms that look almost like a white lion’s mane as they grow. They contain bioactive substances that offer many benefits for the body – especially the brain, heart and gut.

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Our Second Box

Lion’s Mane Mushroom Grow Kit – this box includes an easy to grow kit. Providing a lovely experience to grow your own medicinal mushooms, the process happens quickly at the golden temperature of 21 degrees. You will see growth in 3 weeks and a harvest in 5. Creates a lovely steak or fish substitute.

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Thought-provoking book Second in the series

Merlin Sheldrake reveals how these extraordinary fungi transform our understanding of our planet and life itself.
Author: Merlin Sheldrake

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Ingredients and inspiration fine dining with a difference

Our second box is curated around the fascinating book 'Entangled Life' which shows us how integral fungi are to sustained living on this planet.
Price: £170 – 30 days pre-order

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Medicinal mushoomsgrow your own

The mushrooms provide the dual medical benefit of being good for the brain and gut improving cognitive function and helping to reduce inflammation.
Healthy alternative

Entangled Life

Merlin Sheldrake, Random House

“The more we learn about fungi, the less makes sense about them. They can change our minds, heal our bodies and even help us avoid environmental disaster.”

Merlin Sheldrake reveals how these extraordinary organisms transform our understanding of our planet and life itself.

Box no.2 contents

Bee Wilson Cookbook The Secret of Cooking – Klein

Spider Skimmer – Borough Kitchen

Knife Sharpener – Borough Kitchen

Box Grater – Dexam

2 x Pinch Pots – Mud Australia

Organic Fennel Seeds (40g)– Steenbergs

Organic Japanese Sushi Ginger (105g) – Clearspring

Organic Japanese Rice Vinegar (250ml) – Clearspring

Crete Single Estate Extra Virgin Olive Oil (500ml) – Citizens of Soil

Organic Chickpeas (700g) – Bold Bean Co.

Organic White Beans (700g) – Bold Bean Co.

Dehusked Kentish Cobnuts Gift Bag (227g) – Kentish Cobnuts

Oyster Mushroom and Beetroot Salt (40g) – Slad Valley

Oyster Mushroom and Garlic Salt (40g) – Slad Valley

Dark Chocolate (130g) – UP

Dark Chocolate (70g) – Ocelot

Selection of 4 Lincolnshire grown herbs – Stevens of Sibsey

Planet-friendly packaging

For obvious reasons Larder has opted to use the planet-friendly, protective packaging for our boxes.

Entangled Life

Art Direction, November 04, 2013

Candy canes lollipop macaroon marshmallow gummi bears tiramisu. Dessert croissant cupcake candy canes. Bear claw faworki faworki lemon drops. Faworki marzipan sugar plum jelly-o marzipan cookie.

Box no.2 contents

Bee Wilson Cookbook The Secret of Cooking – Klein

Spider Skimmer – Borough Kitchen

Knife Sharpener – Borough Kitchen

Box Grater – Dexam

2 x Pinch Pots – Mud Australia

Organic Fennel Seeds (40g)– Steenbergs

Organic Japanese Sushi Ginger (105g) – Clearspring

Organic Japanese Rice Vinegar (250ml) – Clearspring

Crete Single Estate Extra Virgin Olive Oil (500ml) – Citizens of Soil

Organic Chickpeas (700g) – Bold Bean Co.

Organic White Beans (700g) – Bold Bean Co.

Dehusked Kentish Cobnuts Gift Bag (227g) – Kentish Cobnuts

Oyster Mushroom and Beetroot Salt (40g) – Slad Valley

Oyster Mushroom and Garlic Salt (40g) – Slad Valley

Dark Chocolate (130g) – UP

Dark Chocolate (70g) – Ocelot

Selection of 4 Lincolnshire grown herbs – Stevens of Sibsey

Candy canes lollipop macaroon marshmallow gummi bears tiramisu. Dessert croissant cupcake candy canes. Bear claw faworki faworki lemon drops. Faworki marzipan sugar plum jelly-o marzipan cookie.

Lion’s Mane Mushroom

New copy

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Our Third Box

Our Sourdough baking box includes: Wild Baking book by Tom Herbert, Pure Sea Salt, Round Proving Basket, Hobbs House Bakery Sourdough Starter, Dough Scraper, Belazu Balsamic Vinegar, Belazu Sour Cherry and Wild Farmed Flour. Price: £125

“Breadmaking is one of those almost hypnotic businesses, like a dance from some ancient ceremony. It leaves you filled with one of the world's sweetest smells... there is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread.” — M.F.K. Fisher

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Our Fourth Box

The brunch box from Larder is the perfect way to start any lazy day! Our latest gift experience consists of: The Modern Spice Rack book, Black Urfa Chilli, 2 tins of Carlin Beans, Baron Coffee by Climpsons, Islands dark chocolate beans, Prana Chai all contained within our signature Mycelium box. Price: £100

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Cooking with Larder

Cooking with Larder is a journey of discovery. It’s about learning new skills, experimenting with flavors, and finding your own unique way to cook. With Larder, you’ll have everything you need to create delicious, satisfying meals that you’ll love.

So what are you waiting for?