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TEENAGERS AND PRESERVES AND ENTREPRENEURS
A variation on the selling lemonade and the USA right of passage
Just a little motivation ? It seems that once they have reached their teenage years and feel safe using a hob and oven, some teenagers may need just a little motivation to start cooking. Making preserves offers lots of scope . For a start, cooking to impress their friends may include knocking up a Tomato…
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SCHOOL HOLIDAY BLACKBERRYING and SAFE FORAGING
Go blackberrying
If there is just one MUST DO OUTING to enjoy with your children in the summer holidays it is to go blackberrying. By the end of August the hedgerows will be heaving with dark shiny berries and I cannot wait to collect them and then sit back and enjoy a plain bowlful. And then some for puddings, cheesecakes…
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SCHOOL HOLIDAY ACIVITIES – A KITCHEN GARDEN FOR THE YOUNG
Grow, pick and preserve
CHILDREN’S GARDENS The one childhood memory that my sister and I can always agree upon is that my mother paid us two pence a pound for picking blackcurrants. Old pence you understand. There was a row of inexhaustible bushes at the bottom of the garden. My mother was not generally so generous. Did she find…
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THE PECTIN PURIST
ARE YOU A PECTIN PURIST OR SOMETHING OF A FRAUD?
I AM A PECTIN PURIST Pectin purists love that the fruit and pectin are to be found together and all ready for that preserving moment. Pectin is sitting there in the skins of the best fruits and so just combining some of the high pectin fruits with low pectin fruits ensures a perfect set – the…
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THE GREAT PESTO GENOVASE
How to make it and the many ways to enjoy it
ANOTHER GREAT ITALIAN GEM Those of us from the baby boom generation, raised in the post war years of austerity in the fifties and sixties were barely aware of other than English food. Dishes of other cuisines, say Chinese or Greek or Mexican, were never seen at home. My mother could knock up a great curry but otherwise…
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BRACE YOURSELF FOR A CHANGE TO TRADITIONAL EASTER FARE
Try sundried tomato butter with your scones and mint chutney with roast lamb
I think of myself as quite a creature of habit and I look forward to many of the seasonal traditions. But this Easter I have decided to break out – well just a tad. It started a couple of weeks ago on Mother’s day when my daughters took me out for a delicious afternoon tea…
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TRIPLE PEEL – THE CROQUET PLAYERS MARMALADE
A trip to Fortnums and Masons Food Department to hand in my Dalemain competition entry
WHEN MARMALADE MEETS CROQUET This is the l time of year when marmalade, which I consider to be the best preserve of all, meets the game of croquet sometimes referred to as the king of games or the queen of sports in the TRIPLE PEEL MARMALADE – The best preserve of all Probably more…
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THE WORLD’S ORIGINAL DALEMAIN MARMALADE AWARDS
With a special invitation to those living in the North of England
Now to the best competition in the preserves calendar. This week I am delighted to feature the Tenth Year of the Dalemain Marmalade Awards What makes this the fun part of making preserves is that all are invited to submit their homemade marmalade to fit a list of categories. There is also a label competition…
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CHESTNUT THOUGHTS, CHESTNUT JAM AND NAT KING COLE
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR
Chestnuts are so much part of Christmas fare – chestnuts as a stuffing, whole chestnuts , chestnut jam spread on toast or used as a puree added to ice cream or cream, mixed with puddings or made into a chestnut tart . So it is all very well for Nat King Cole to entice…
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A SPECTACULAR YEAR FOR SEVILLE ORANGES
A guest post from Ave Maria Farm in Seville
AS I LOOK FORWARD TO THE START OF THE MARMALADE SEASON, I AM DELIGHTED TO HAVE RECEIVED THIS POST FROM AMADORA GAHONA, the daughter of the owner of the AVE MARIA SEVILLE ORANGES FARM. THE OWNER is AMADORA FRAGA and pictured here ‘This is the story about our Sevilles oranges and it expresses the sentiments and…
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