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Category Archives: The Kitchen Garden
Summer Sun For The Winter
The Preserve of Preserves With the end of summer and the beginnings of a rapid slide into winter I thought I’d celebrate with a glass of wine! Except that the wine itself is not yet ready! It is a ‘work … Continue reading
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Tagged autumn, Christmas, fruit, garden, summer, wine, winter
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Poppy Goes Blackberrying
It’s that time of year again! The hedgerows groan under the weight of the trailing, blackberry laden brambles while higher in the branches you will find both elderberry and sloe. Poppy and I have a number of preferred locations in … Continue reading
Variations On The Potato
Potatoes have been a major part of the European diet since their introduction by Spanish Conquistadors from South America in the 17th Century. Ireland took to the tuber more readily at this time and due to an extended period of … Continue reading
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Tagged Ireland, mash, potato cakes, potatoes, traditional, Wartime
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A Summer Of Welcome (mostly) Visitors
With the Summer now well on its way out here are a few images from the past season in the garden. What with the bad start with so much rain, it hasn’t been as good a year as it promised … Continue reading
The Loganberry
The loganberry was accidentally created in 1883, in Santa Cruz, California, by the lawyer and horticulturist James Harvey Logan (1841–1928) Dissatisfied with the varieties of blackberries available, he attempted to cross two existing varieties to produce a third, superior variety. … Continue reading
Getting Out Of A Jam . . .
. . . What You Put In! Once again the fruits of the summer are swiftly forming and ripening in the gardens and hedgerows. My first crop is likely to be gooseberries, no surprise there, which though of minimal appeal … Continue reading
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Tagged fruit, jam, larder, marmelade, preserves, rationing, sugar, traditional
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Saving the Summer
Little Drops of Sunshine The preserving of fruit in sugar started in the Middle East several thousand years ago. It began with earthenware or fired clay pots that were then sealed tight with bees wax. This was by no means … Continue reading
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Tagged classic, fruit, marmelade, summer, sunshine, tea-time, traditional
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Self Preservation
In A Jam! Like bread-making the making of preserves, both fruit and vegetable, has been around for time immemorial. To have the taste of summer in store to brighten the winter months is like a shaft of sunlight on a … Continue reading
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Tagged berries, classic, fruit, jam, loganberries., marmelade, preserve, strawberries
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A Rose By Any Other Name . . .
Rose Garden With the Chelsea Flower Show in full swing at the moment Alice and I have spent the best part of today edging and trimming lawns in anticipation of a good barbeque summer. I thought a nice quiet moment with … Continue reading
Rationing Made Tasty!
The Rise of the Humble Vegetable. The constraints of war-time rationing are difficult to comprehend in this day and age where food of all types are freely available, in some of the major stores for twenty-four hours a day! It was … Continue reading
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Tagged beans, carrot, garden, onions, pulses, vegetables
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