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• Pork risotto recipe with mushrooms, sweet peppers and tomatoes. Tasty budget meals.
  June 6, 2010
• Good things and bad things that begin with a C
  June 6, 2009
• Huge delights in every garden
  June 6, 2008
• A quiche in tart's clothing. Tasty Spinach and Cornish Yarg Tart recipe
  June 6, 2007

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Recent Comments

• Kathryn on Angela’s recipe for elderflower champagneMuch later comment. Angela, I think you've been a bit lucky. One bottle of elderflower CAN coat every surface, horizontal and vertical, in a kitchen.…
• A Angela connoly on Angela’s recipe for elderflower champagneI think you mean the beer bottles with metal hinge and stopper? Yes I would imagine so, any bottle that has contained fizzy drinks
• Marc on Growing tomatoes in the greenhouse. Tips from traditional practice at Audley End HouseYou can buy bolts which fit into the grooves in the aluminium uprights of your greenhouse then twist sideways so they are held in the groove.Once in p…
• Kit Niamh on Fiona’s elderflower vodka/liqueur recipeJust make elderflower cordial, 2.5kg sugar, zest two unwaxed lemons, then thick slice the lemons, 50g of citric acid, 1.5lts of water, boil this take…
• Lesley on Angela’s recipe for elderflower champagneHi, Can you put champagne into a flip top bottle
• Jane on You can buy a pressure canner in the UK!I Do not mean to be rude that is not my intent but like the post after mine that points out the recomended canner is not a canner and thus dangerous t…
• Arthur edwards on Angela’s recipe for elderflower champagneUse only champagne bottles wine bottles will explode
• Kate Oliver on Fiona’s traditional elderflower cordial recipeI did the same. Just hot soapy water and a good scrub and rinse off. Seemed to work a treat !
• Anne on Fiona’s traditional elderflower cordial recipeGreengrocer had waxed lemons only. If I scrub them will they work for the elderflower cordial?
• teresa watson on Fiona’s traditional elderflower cordial recipeMade some elderflower cordial earlier today, it had been steeping for 48 hours and oh my goodness it tasted just heavenly. Good with a splash of vodka…

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