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Recipe: Rhubarb Chutney with Dates and Raisins

Recipe: Rhubarb Chutney with Dates and Raisins

Here is my recipe for Rhubarb chutney with dates and raisins: The rhubarb season has a short peak when it is at its best though it is still available for most of the summer.  At my allotment I have several rhubarb plants. This year they […]

Blackberry Chutney – Christmas Promise in a Jar

Blackberry Chutney – Christmas Promise in a Jar

Blackberry chutney time is here and looking at a row of jars on the shelf there is so much Christmas promise in those jars. On my allotment this year we have been blessed with an abundant harvest of wild blackberries.  Although these berries grow wild […]

They’re cherries Jim but not as we know them!! – French Glace Cherries

They’re cherries Jim but not as we know them!! – French Glace Cherries

When I think of Provence in France or the wine producing region of The Languedoc I do not immediately think of glace cherries!  Until today that is! I was invited to a French Glace Cherry MasterClass and really couldn’t think of that many things to […]

Book Review: Salt Sugar Smoke – Diana Henry

Book Review: Salt Sugar Smoke – Diana Henry

  My earliest memory of home made jam making is from when we used to spend our annual family vacation at a cottage by the seaside in Maine, USA.  My mother, sister and I would go to this wild raspberry site and pick all morning […]