Tag Archives: River Cottage

The Sunday recipe: Marmalade with everything please

Scraping a zester across the dimpled skin of an orange or hovering a split lemon very close to your nostrils and inhaling against the damp is the equivalent of culinary angel dust in winter. Not only can they literally boost … Continue reading

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Sod hug a hoodie, embrace a jam jar: preserving with River Cottage’s Pam Corbin and Liz Neville

Tresillian House: Preserving for Christmas Preserving taps into that late summer/autumnal instinct that drives squirrels to hide nuts, birds to migrate and bears to curl up in caves. Alas we cannot curl up till spring but we can ram pears … Continue reading

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River Cottage Canteen Plymouth

Last week, the doors of middle class rural idylldom were thrown open to urban sprawl. River Cottage meet the city of Plymouth. A brave move and a welcome injection of provenance pedigree to a city that is upping its gastro … Continue reading

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Forgotten Fruits – crab apple jelly

These are apples for tiny people, elves who live at the bottom of the garden, rabbits who think they’ve hit the jackpot, the winged ones who are delighted to stab away at such bulbous berries. But to us humans, they … Continue reading

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