A Waitrose recipe for beef and vegetable hotpot is also proving popular (up 42 per cent), along with a sausage, tomato and bean stew (37 per cent) and a chicken and butter bean stew (32 per cent).
Their broccoli and blue cheese cottage pie recipe has proved the people’s favourite – with searches up 216 per cent.
Guess the comfort foods seeing sales soar ahead of icy blast warning It’s already freezing outside with the first snow of the year forecast for London in the coming days.
Recipes for pies, stews and hotpots are soaring as temperatures plunge, with Waitrose reporting massive spike in searches for ways to make hearty fare online.
It appears that middle class shoppers are in full prepper mode, with searches for comfort food recipes spiking.
