A treat as a snack, or use as a luxury ingredient in jams and chutneys.

A delicious scented cordial for use diluted as a drink or in cooking fruit.

A tart, refreshing version of the classic elderflower cordial recipe.

Quite simply the best thing to do with gooseberries. An excellent jam for breakfast, tangy yet sweet. A lovely orange colour.

A basic gooseberry chutney, good in a sandwich or with a poughmans.

An Indian style lime pickle.

Make with maincrop rhubarb, good with curries, oily fish and cheese.

A combination of the best two early summer flavours.

A thirst quenching way of using up a glut of gooseberries.

A combination of early summer flavours in a cordial. Uses elderflower cordial.

A sweet Chutney, good for using up a glut of late summer fruit.

A quick and easy raspberry jam recipe using preserving sugar to speed up cooking time and produce a fresher tasting jam.

A recipe for very easy to make lemon cordial.

An old fashioned classic, can be made with or without ginger.

A fruity alternative to tomato ketchup, a useful way of using up excess old rhubarb.

The classic summer jam.

A slightly more tart version of traditional strawberry jam.

Pickled plums using a method suitable for other fruit such as cherries. They are delicious with cured meats or duck.

A method of pickling gherkins which results in a softer pickle.

A method of pickling gherkins which results in a crunchy pickle.

An easy jam to make, any sort of plums can be used and the recipe works for damsons and greengages as well.

A useful recipe for a glut of runner beans which produces a sweet and spicy yellow chutney.
Works just as well with green (french) beans.