Hedgerow Wine Recipe: Makes 1 demijohn = 6 x 750ml bottles Ingredients: 1.5kg mixed hedgerow fruit – blackberries, sloes, haws 1.25kg sugar 4.5L boiling water 4 teabags (black tea) *1 tsp pectolase *1 tsp citric acid *1 tsp yeast nutrient *1 tsp wine yeast *1 camden tablet (sulphite – optional) Other equipment: *Steriliser (e.g. Brew […]
Wild Garlic Soup Tans Way Taking a long walk on A beautiful Easter Sunday from my mother’s house in Kent. The usual picture postcard scenes of lambs and bunnies bounding across bright pastures of greenness, yellow primroses, celandines, and catkins. As we strolled through the woodland, stepping in time to birdsong, James scoured the ground […]
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This recipe my mother used to make every year from the glut of apples from the old fruit trees in her garden. My sister and I used to moan about having to spend ages peeling and chopping for her pressure cooker but once Christmas came this delicious chutney always was the most luxurious accompaniment to […]
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Wild Wines “Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books” Stephen Fry Workshop Details Time – 4 hours Lunch Inc – Yes Location – East Sussex A foraging walk and discussion about what you can make wine from. Collecting desired fruits or leaves, berries or vegetables as the […]
Saffron Milk – Caps My favourite foraged mushroom of this season is a beautiful apricot coloured gift from the forest, the saffron milk-cap. An unusual fungus but so versatile, offering a generous texture and taste to any savoury recipe. After the September drought, where the pickings have been so sparse, October is looking up and […]
My Dear friend Vicky, Thank you so much for your lovely letter, yes it feels like an age since we were in the woods camping and preparing food from our allotments. I love the way we combined delicious recipes and ingredients without any pre-discussion…but I think that’s what happens when you use seasonal food as […]
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Vicky Vicky Radtke trained as an architect and when working on her thesis, spent time with the indigenous Naskapi people of Canada. This was a formative moment in life as she observed how the community lived and were adapting to the pressures of the so-called civilizing influences at the end of the twentieth century where […]
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Sourdough Workshop Learn how to make nourishing sourdough bread, from producing your own sourdough mother or starter to baking your daily loaf. Workshop Details Time – 4 hours Lunch Inc – Yes Location – East Sussex You will begin the session by learning how to make your own sourdough starter before creating a sourdough loaf […]
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