Let’s bring a little comfort to the summer table shall we, using the most intensely coloured and flavoured of all the summer berries, the blackcurrant. The deepest of purples, with a sweet, tart flavour, not only are they east to grow here in the UK but it’s that tart, fruity flavour that make them perfect …
June & July are blackcurrant season in the garden. Harvesting actually does span over two months for me because our blackcurrant bush is very old, very big & its fruit continues to ripen at different stages in early summer. It’s one of the few nice things that I actually inherited with my house. The previous …
How much jam is too much jam? I’m hoping there’s no actual answer to that question because all I seem to be doing at the moment is making jam & chutneys as a means to use up garden gluts & preserve my favourite seasonal ingredients (that & I really like jam). Once we’ve gotten the …
