The Cottage Smallholder

Recipes and Articles

This Day Past Years

2010

• Buying bulbs in bulk and a few bulb planting tips

2009

• Tales of a busy dehydrator: Celery

2008

• Ornamental quince, Chaenomeles or Japonica quince recipes

2007

• We think that we have a male keet. Farming Friends & Cottage Smallholder Interblog Guinea Fowl Breeding Event

2006

• I found a smoked ham hock nestling in our freezer

Recent Comments

• CraigI on Raspberry vodka recipeDone raspberry whisky last year, divine. Also raspberry vodka. Currently doing plum gin and raspberry vodka.
• Danny on Two recipes: Wild Damson Gin and Sloe Gin recipesYes, that's fine, Vivien.
• Albert Scott on Farmer’s marrow rum recipeWould you activate the bread yeast first or do you pour it in with the sugar
• Vivien on Two recipes: Wild Damson Gin and Sloe Gin recipesHi Richard I have just been given a big basket of domestic damsons and and am going to make damson gin., some of which I want to give as Christmas pre…
• Heidi on Eleventh Blog Anniversary!Welcome back Fiona! I was always hoping you'd pick up the blog again and have often checked in. I saw your recent article in Land love magazine (I Thi…
• Julie on Eleventh Blog Anniversary!Great to see you are still about. Have often wondered what had happened to you. Today looked up a recipe for quince jelly, clicked on to your blog and…
• Rosie (@greenrosielife) on Grape Jelly recipeFriends have just given us some rather tart and seeds grapes so I am going to give this a go. Hope all is well with you.
• Nicola Bott on Eleventh Blog Anniversary!Hi Fiona I love your blog and really missed it. Hope you're back now.
• Barbara Head on Katey’s Rosehip Syrup recipeI made exact recipe 8 years ago for the start of hip pain a total cure A friend same hip pain has had both replaced. I always make enough for the year…
• GS on Eleventh Blog Anniversary!Great news that you want to blog again Fiona. I use so many of your recipes and appreciate all the time you put into sharing them.

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