Tag Archives: Tresillian House

The Sunday recipe: Marmalade with everything please

Posted on February 3, 2013 by

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

Posted on November 29, 2011 by

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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Autumn into winter and mad about medlars

Posted on November 22, 2011 by

The misshapen medlar, mespilus germanica, has a little of the dog’s bottom about it: a puckered and cheeked squashed apple with an air of authority that comes from heritage. I love these primeval bulbous fruits – the medlar, the bulging … Continue reading →

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Forgotten Fruits – crab apple jelly

Posted on October 20, 2011 by

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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An ode to absent apples

Posted on September 22, 2011 by

‘The season of mist and mellow fruitfulness’ may well be beckoning but the apples ‘bending the moss’d cottage-trees’ in Keats’ celebration of autumn are sadly absent in many gardens and orchards across the UK. The ‘swelling’ and the ‘plumping’ all … Continue reading →

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