We’ve just harvested our gooseberries and have made some fabulous gooseberry and elderflower jam. Things that ripen at the same time often go well together. Here’s the recipe if you’d like to make some yourself: 1.3kg green gooseberries 1.6kg (3 ½ lb) granulated sugar 5-6 elderflower heads you will need a large square of muslin … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: August 2013
Swop your surplus fruit for homemade preserves
Here at Sweet Emily we love to use seasonal produce and we hate to see any being wasted. That’s why we will take your surplus fruit or veg and in return you will get a jar of your own jam back for every kilo of fruit you let us have – it’s a WIN-WIN! You’ll … Continue reading
Local and seasonal ingredients – at the heart of what we do
We love to use local, fresh ingredients whether it’s our own free range eggs (if we run out we’ll use local free range eggs instead), our home made honey (we have 3 hives that make the most delicious fragrant honey), or fruit from our garden and wild fruit from our local hedgerows. We also use … Continue reading
New Onion Marmalade with Port and Thyme
Great for a quick and easy homemade onion gravy As well as a great accompaniment to cheese and cold meats, to make an easy onion gravy, just add 100 ml beef stock, 1 tsp mustard and black pepper to 3 tbs of onion marmalade and heat. If you want more, just double up the quantities. … Continue reading