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…
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Recipe: Green tomato chutney
You know the old saying ‘when life gives you lemons….make lemonade‘ well when nature hands you a series of Mill’s periods* resulting in a surge of tomato blight you make a plethora of Green tomato chutney. Ingredients: 2.5kg green tomatoes (if a few red/orange ones go in so much the better) 500g onions (2-3 large…
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Recipe : Gooseberry & lemon Curd
As you will have guessed by now I am an avid Gooseberry devorer always on the lookout for new ways of preparing them. This summer a new addition to the ‘book’ has emerged in the form of a delicious and very moreish curd. Many of us know and love a lemon curd and of late…
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Recipe – 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…
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Recipe : Gooseberry and Raspberry jam
This was a bit of an accident to be honest, though I suspect someone has written about it before. I was making gooseberry jam and needing to make up the weight added a couple of handfuls of handy home grown rasps. Perfect addition as it turned the pink jam a brilliant jewel like red. Ingredients:…
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