... 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, ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... good use for winter example is probably the crab apple. It is too sour t o eat in its raw state, but country wives make uncommonly fine jelly of it , and they also have a way of preserving it with blackberries that provides them with an appetising jam for ...

... sandwich or an icecream on the branch of a tree. Picking appples. Black- berrying. Gathering crab apples. Making blackberry-and-apple crumble and crab-apple jelly with the literal fruits of your labours. Toasting bread at an open fire. ...

... pots or which have been prepared for it, and make it air-tight the following day. BLACKBERRY AND APPLE CHEESE. Put six pounds of ripe blackberries and six pounds of apples (weighed after being peeled and cored) which are not quite ri pe into a large jar ...

... Bringing in the harvest SrutVU C~L.iJter September is the month to pick delicious blackberries, apples and late raspberries as well as colourful butternut and more exotic squashes T HE pace oflife begins to slow down in September-the days are shortening ...

... 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 ...

... to get in the blackberry crop which promises to be a good one. fruit that has to be dealt with at once, but makes excellent jam or jelly or can be bottled or used at once in pies, or very nicely in a blackberry version of the W elsh apple cake that is ...

... berries. The craiJ-apple season is, however·, not yet past. In days when manufactured jams and jellies were not so che,lp and common as they are now, even substantial farm-folk were not above collecting crab- Excellent jelly some of the apples for preserving ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...