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A FI E VICTORIA PLUM TREE. (Right) PYRAMID APPLE, WHICH PRODUCES ABOUT THE SAME Q A TTITY OF FRUIT A A CORDO TREE

... is well fl avoured and is a heavy cropper. Cane fruits, such as blackberries and loganberries, can be trained on wires around the sides of the fruit garden. It is true that blackberrying is a p leasant pastime, but this should not prevent one from cultivating ...

Published: Thursday 17 September 1959
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 862 | Page: 51 | Tags: none

END-OF-SEASON PLENTY

... year, I spy the jelly-bag in the scullery, su pended by some contraption or other as it disgorges fruit juice into a waiting container. It is a comforting reminder of my wife's domain of the preserves cupboard. Blackberry and apple jelly is one which she ...

Published: Thursday 21 October 1993
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1907 | Page: 87 | Tags: none

/1P ART from the orchard fruits I may gather

... 11. here-apples, a picking of cherries if I can get them before the birds, and perhaps enough redcurrants to make the redcurrant jelly I am fond of-we have a promised harvest of blackberries and elderberries, both of which improve stewed apple and can ...

Published: Thursday 18 August 1983
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 398 | Page: 49 | Tags: none

MAKE-DO-AND-MEND, THE VICTORIAN WAY

... bilberry jelly and bilberry tarts. In a month or so grandmother also made blackberry jam and jelly and pie, not to mention blackberry wine. She also made rowan jelly to stand beside her red gooseberry jam, rhubarb and ginger jam, ...

Published: Thursday 08 October 1981
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 339 | Page: 118 | Tags: none

(;oUNTRYMAN'S

... crab apple jelly, apple jelly, and redcurrant. The only thing that was barred was turnip. Everyone knew that the shop product was turnip pulp and fruit, a pound of raspberries to a ton of pulp with sawdust for pips. The makers of this so-called jam were ...

Published: Thursday 26 June 1975
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1057 | Page: 89 | Tags: none

FRUITS OF THE SEASON

... bushes, black and red currants, and pick in earnest when the big brass pan \\·as to be used . The ancient apple trees contributed bulk to jelly. The apples were small and yello\\· and, I always felt, much better left for boys to carry in their pockets as iron ...

Published: Thursday 04 October 1973
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1287 | Page: 136 | Tags: none

which may or may not be an advantage, according to personal taste, but neither preserves t he flavour of the

... nothot enough. 'When crab-apples are used for jelly-making a bunch of rowan berries boiled with them improves both the colour and the flavour for those who like a slightly sharp preserve as a n a lternative to red currant jelly for serving wit h mutton ...

Published: Friday 12 September 1952
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1434 | Page: 53 | Tags: none

A COUNTRYMAN'S NOTES

... pick blackberries the other week-end, with the re ult that we have in the larder at the momentseveraljar ofblackberry jam. rot many people eem to like blackberry jam without apple. The berries are more often than not used in blackb rry-and-apple jelly ...

Published: Thursday 12 September 1957
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2259 | Page: 37 | Tags: none

WILD FRUITS IN THEIR SEASONS

... erhaps elderberrie might be gathered for wine, as crab-apples were for jelly, and rich neighbours later pick ed sloes for sloe gin. W e never took the coral fruit of the mountain a h or rowan to m ake jelly (bottled sunshine), but here were others who did-and ...

Published: Thursday 13 September 1956
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3725 | Page: 65 | Tags: none

PLANTING FRUIT TO A PLAN

... choice, but the fruit follow large attractive flowers and the leave colour in the autumn. I am told that medlar jelly is not unlike quince jelly. The quince will crop when about eight years old and will grow in any good garden soil, though again it must ...

Published: Thursday 22 September 1955
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4420 | Page: 55 | Tags: none

Is a thatched roof all the cover you need?

... bilberry jelly and bilberry tarts. In a month or so grandmother also made blackberry jam and jelly and pie, not to mention blackberry wine. She also made rowan jelly to stand beside her red gooseberry jam, rhubarb and ginger jam, ...

Published: Thursday 08 October 1981
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2236 | Page: 118 | Tags: none