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It’s plain to see: you like tradition, you appreciate recipes that any of us can cook, and you can’t get enough of our Throwback Thursday recipes. But before you read on, do me a favour: don’t scan down to see what’s what; rather enjoy the slow buildup I’ve planned for your enjoyment.

Your own personal Kitchen Boy, Tony Jackman (c’est moi), has revisited all of the 260 recipes he's cooked and written this year and chosen the five that he is proudest of having done. We’ve published one every day this week, and today we announce his Recipe of the Year.

There were cupcakes and milk tarts, scones and dainty sandwiches. There was roast lamb and malva pudding, and Sally Andrew and Des Lindberg among other fine participants. In the end, there were happy tears in every eye.

Today, the whole world knows about our classic and comforting South African dessert, malva pudding. Many celebrity chefs and notable food bloggers from elsewhere in the world have had a go at it, and it features on the menus of some very fine restaurants, even in Manhattan. But until the second...