The Proper Marmalade Company Blog
Oct 19, 2011
Kirsties Damson Jam
Well the programme is aired tonight and I am feeling positively apprehensive. Positively, because I have been extrao...
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Sep 3, 2011
Quick Blackberry Brandy
I was offered a dram of blackberry brandy yesterday while collecting fruit from near Barnstaple. It was fabulous mell...
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May 30, 2011
Disrupted nature
5 hornet queens have woken up and been liberated from the house in the last 2 weeks and still the bats aren't back. ...
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Apr 4, 2011
Kirstie Allsopp Calling Devon Jam Makers
I have just had a very interesting telephone call from Raise the Roof Productions who are making a brand new Kirstie ...
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Apr 2, 2011
Spring at last
After the long cold shiver of winter the warmth has brought the world to life. The morello cherry tree budded in tim...
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Dec 19, 2010
Happy Christmas!
As I write the snow lies thick outside the kitchen so beautiful and yet treacherous. The small birds cluster around ...
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May 13, 2010
Crystallised Spring Flowers
Another very cold night but beautiful day, ah well, I will have to replant the runner beans which have for the second...
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Mar 12, 2010
Wedding Favours
Last year I was approached independently by 3 brides wanting wedding favours for their guests. We managed to produce ...
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Mar 7, 2010
Spring in the air and marmalade is in Fortnums.
There is such a pull away from the kitchen to the garden when the sun is out, and hasn't it been fabulous the last fe...
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Feb 6, 2010
Seville Marmalade Recipe
The seville oranges are now in the shops and we are bang in the middle of our marmalade making season.
Our local pap...
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Jan 5, 2010
Pan Yan Pickle recipe
*PLEASE NOTE - this is a very old blog post - WE NO LONGER SELL PAN YAN PICKLE - Thank you :D *
Happy New Year, at...
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Dec 16, 2009
Why you should use naturally dried apricots.
I am so pleased so many of you have had a successful chutney making experience and enjoy what you have made. Some ho...
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