Omg!! Price of peaches

thriftlady_2

I agree Addiscomber, growing soft fruit is really money saving. Even in farmshops rasps and strawbs in season are frighteningly expensive, and currants are scarce.

Raspberries have a long season-right into October if you select the right varieties.

Other unusual fruit like quinces, greengages and medlars can be grown really easily if you are patient.

vivaladiva

On Good Food Live this week they had the earliest ever English strawberries!
Apparently they tasted awful - really watery. It just goes to show that having seasonal fruit and veg is best. I mean - English strawberries in March!?

thriftlady_2

Bizzimum wrote: »

On Good Food Live this week they had the earliest ever English strawberries!
Apparently they tasted awful - really watery. It just goes to show that having seasonal fruit and veg is best. I mean - English strawberries in March!?

Madness, now what you really want at this time of the year is English forced rhubarb. Get pink

Try this

Stew about 5 sticks of lovely rhubarb with a tbsp of water and a couple of tbsp of sugar.

When soft blend in a blender or food processor. This is only necessary if you are catering for fussy kids who reckon they don't like rhubarb :rolleyes: otherwise leave in chunks.

Melt a tablet of lemon or orange jelly in the microwave for 40 secs.

Add the rhubarb, stir well and top up with water to make a pint of liquid.

Pour into a mould/bowl/little ramekins. Set in the fridge.

Makes a beautiful pink pud. I've also used unflavoured gelatine and orange juice.

Addiscomber

thriftlady wrote: »

Raspberries have a long season-right into October if you select the right varieties.

How ever could I have forgotten my autumn fruiting raspberries? Bit of a misnomer if you ask me! They seem to start in about july and I picked more than a good sized punnet in November. What is even better is that the DSs don't like them so I get the lot!

lil_me

I'm off to the gardening thread, we go through loads of berry fruits, strawberries and raspberries when I can get them and it costs me a fortune from the farm. I've started some herbs off, but I think berrys may be a better bet than carrots, onions etc which are cheap from the farm, have limited space so need to decide what to get.