125 days ago
We have a total glut of plums at the Welsh Hovel this year and thus Joshua and myself are hard at work harvesting, palming them off on neighbours and then and turning those that we do not devour freshly picked into anthing we can think of. This weekend it wll be plum ice cream ( now underway), plum and cinammon jam, plums flash frozen and plums stewed and then frozen for autumn breakfasts with almond milk. But frst up was an upside down plum, honey and ginger cake.
1130 days ago
The thing with dog’s arse fruit, or the Nottingham Medlar, is that you must wait till the fruit are rotting to harvest. That they now are and so as a half term treat, Joshua, myself and Jaya went to harvest the one tree we planted a couple of years ago in the new orchard. It is only about five foot tall so even Jaya could pick the fruit from the lower branches.
1545 days ago
The cooking apples from the tree on the lane down to the Welsh Hovel have been dropping for weeks. But now those edible apples in both the old and new orchards are also ripening fast and thus every few days I find myself making another jar of stewed apples and cinnamon to store in the fridge.
