The other day I took some of my home made quince jam to a breakfast with mainly international people. It turned out that most of them had never heard of quinces let alone knew what they taste like. There were lots of happy mmh-sounds and delightfully rais ...
Quince harvest
Every year I look forward to picking quinces at my parents’ and making jam and other stuff from them. When I was a child we had a peach, a cherry, two pear and four apple trees and all kinds of berry bushes cramped into our really not that big garden. It ...
Plumcake with cinnamon crumble
I wasn’t planning this recipe to be my first blog entry but out of the blue my friend Judith called one Sunday afternoon saying she had just come back from her granny’s with heaps of damson plums from the garden. If we wanted some? Of course we did! And I ...