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Recipe: Rhubarb and Cranberry Preserve

Our rhubarb, including all the bits of divided crown we planted last year, is doing really well – no doubt helped by all this dreadful RAIN… I made some of our favourite Citrussy Rhubarb Jam (a sort of cross between jam and … Continue reading

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Bacon: The Moment of Truth

Don’t worry, the title isn’t a reference to the recent meat panic across our media (which seemed to me to deserve a better headline, along the lines of ‘Balanced Diet Is Good For You Shock’), but to the happy occasion … Continue reading

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Make your own Bacon

We’re not entirely new to salting pork, as we’ve mentioned here before, but what we’ve ended up with has definitely been to boil as salt pork or to put into stews as a flavouring ingredient, rather than the kind of … Continue reading

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It’s lovely….

…when someone takes your pattern and creates something really fabulous with it! I had a bit of a ‘why didn’t I think of that?’ moment when Elisabeth sent me a picture of this wonderful cushion she made using my Granny … Continue reading

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