Introducing InnSpire, an exciting new pale ale by the Pipe and Glass, created in collaboration with the award-winning Hunmanby based brewery, Wold Top.

This is delicious, easy and adaptable – it can be served as a light lunch with bitter salad leaves, as a great dinner party starter (pop it in the middle of the table for all to share), or as a savoury course. And you can make it without the ham for a vegetarian version.

These are delicious dusted with a little icing sugar and served alongside your morning coffee or afternoon tea. They’d also make a lovely accompaniment to ice cream, or, with a dollop of good cream, or perhaps chantilly cream (sweetened cream with a little vanilla added), a simple pudding in themselves.

Honey is one of the most ancient and revered of foods – not for nothing did the Old Testament refer to the Promised Land as ‘flowing with milk and honey’, a phrase which is used to this day to signify fertility and ease.

Honeycomb, cinder toffee, hokey pokey – whatever you choose to call it, it’s rare to find someone who doesn’t love this sweet treat.

Many of the edible herbs and plants growing in the gardens at the Pipe and Glass are easy to grow at home – you may already have some of them in your own garden, or in pots on your kitchen windowsill. Here are ten of James’ favourites, with a few ideas from him on what to do with them.

Get Baking with James’ festive Christmas Tree Parkin recipe.

They’re a fishy family, the Hodgsons of Hartlepool. One of the country’s leading fish suppliers, these days the family firm is run by brother-and-sister team Peter and Jill, under the guidance of dad Alan.

The future’s looking extremely bright for Adam and Jennie Palmer. The couple live on a farm in a remote and gorgeous area of East Yorkshire with their young family - charming Charlie is three, and baby Ivy Beatrice was born in mid-September - and their business, also fairly young, is flourishing.

James has always been interested in food history, so he was delighted a couple of years ago when the East Riding of Yorkshire Council unearthed a handwritten recipe for sugar cakes and asked him to recreate it.