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Oct 19, 2011

Kirsties Damson Jam

Well the programme is aired tonight and I am feeling positively apprehensive.  Positively, because I have been extrao...

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...

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.  ...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

Mar 12, 2010

Wedding Favours

Last year I was approached independently by 3 brides wanting wedding favours for their guests. We managed to produce ...

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...

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...

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...

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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