The Cottage Smallholder

okay Girls, next time I dig it all out of the cupboard under the stairs for my next stall, I'll take a few pictures and attempt to post them up. I think my next one is a week on sunday... the chickens are all a bit sruffy at the moment as they have taken the shorter days as a trigger to moult - feathers everywhere, even our lovely big maran cockerell has lost all his beautiful tail plumage - how do I add a picture.

By the way Toffeeapple, yes I've been on and off the site for a few months, so we've probably talked before, but now the nights are drawing in, I have more time to play.

I'll let you all know how the one goes next weekend, but I did a few last autumn and things went very well, all the traditionals such as strawb jam, marmalade (I make a pink grapefruit one), mango chutney and pickled onions were popular, but the other thing was hot chutneys.

 I make a hot mango one, a fiery bengal, and chilli jam. I do cakes/traybakes/brownies and muffins and they always sell well, but it's a lot of effort close to the event for the cakes and I think I sell everything too cheap. However provided it pays for me to continue to make more, then I'm happy.