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JaMs aNd Preserves
s h o P P I N G
photo: katie moorman
I’ve a quince tree in the garden, and no clue as
to what to do with the fruit it bears, so I spoke
to someone who does, Julian Warrender of the
delectable O<strong>us</strong>e Valley Foods. “Quince goes well
with lemon and has a natural affinity with cheese,”
she tells me. “We’ll be making jelly, marmalade and
chutney.” September is also a good month to forage
for blackberries, elderberries and sloes, which can
be <strong>us</strong>ed to make cordials, jellies or sloe gin. But if
you’re going to make your own preserves, where
can you get the kit? Potts in the Cliffe stock a good
variety of different sized Kilner jars. Bunce’s sell
handsome Maslin jam pans, sugar thermometers
and a variety of labels for jars, as do Steamer
Trading who also stock jam jars, and a hooped jelly
bag for straining (which I’ve seen hanging in the
O<strong>us</strong>e Valley Foods kitchen, looking rather like an
udder). There’s May’s General Store for spices and
sugar, and Harveys for gin or vodka to drop your
sugar and pre-frozen (tip from my sister) or pricked
sloes or damsons into. And I k<strong>now</strong> local poet Janet
Sutherland makes delicio<strong>us</strong> blackberry brandy.
A good cookbook is handy for inspiration and
Gardener and Cook stock Hugh Fearnley-
Whittingstall’s new River Cottage book about
foraging, Hedgerow. And if all else fails, pop along
to Bill’s, Laporte’s, Beckworth’s or Cheese Please
to pick up a jar of the stuff. You can always decant it
and pretend.
Also –look out for the ‘Pickled’ event taking place
on October 10th in Grange Gardens during
Lewes’ Octoberfeast Food and Drink Festival
(lewesoctoberfeast.com).
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