After making Sarah Raven’s wonderful soft set Apricot jam earlier in the year I have been playing about with the ‘soft set’ method on other jams. Our goosberry bushes have been over abundant this year so it seems like a good time to try it out on them. Ingredients: 1kg Gooseberries – topped and tailed…
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Recipe – Rhubarb, Date and Ginger chutney
It’s January the time for clearing out and cleaning down and generally getting ready for the seasons to come. I will admit our freezer has been rather bulging with excess produce this year so this weekend I took everything out and made preserves, LOTS and LOTS of preserves, Blackcurrant jam, Goosberry jam, Raspberry jam, Rhubarb…
Continue ReadingRecipe – Red Currant Jelly
I always have great plans for preserves and jamming as much of my produce and foraging as possible as the seasons roll around but last year everything well to hell in a hand basket as life stopped for our RHS Tatton Show Garden. In theory it was only July but in practice it was most…
Continue ReadingRecipe: Medlar Jelly
What is a medlar I hear you ask? Mespilus germanica is a small odd shaped fruit grown here since Roman times. A small sized roundish fruit with a rough mid brown skin a bit like a kiwi fruit in texture, but turn it to the base and it splits into a wide crack giving it’s…
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