A break from knitting now, as I make the most of the summer harvest. In the next few weeks I'll be posting five recipes using blackberries, elderberries and apple which I've been testing out this August. Unfortunately in my desire to use up a disposable camera so that I can show you photos of these creations, I'll have delayed posting until the end of the berry season - but there's always next year!
Where I live there are innumerable old-fashioned Victorian and Georgian houses, all with a little garden, and there is a huge amount of fruit going to waste in those gardens. From my flat I can only dream of having a real apple or plum tree to harvest; even a crab apple tree would provide jelly to serve with meats. The Christian Science Church on the main road has a sloe tree in their front carpark; the branches of dull bitter berries are too high for me to reach without a scrumping ladder, and the fruit which might have gone to gin is rotting on the pavement, squished by passing women with buggies. Elderberry bushes are rampant in front yards and back yards everywhere. It is simply criminal. None of these lucky, lucky people are taking advantage of the free jam, pudding and liqueur-making facilities at their command!
I address my plea to the Internet at large. Soon it will be September, and almost all but the apples will have gone, Summer's bounty withered for another year. Next year, when you see a red or purple glint on that bush that leans over the fence, investigate it properly. If the bottom of the bush belongs to you, go to it! If it doesn't, bring a ladder, and drop me a line...
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