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Hi all

today my farther send me home home with cooking apples, plums, rhubarb. So now is the time for panick, how do I store, what do I cook, what shall I do. 

 

I could go full force with jam or puddings but is there any fresh ideas out there to stop me hitting the baking like a sweettoothed cake aholic??

any and all ideas welcomed please. thanks

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  • Thank you. 

     

    Not pulling your leg I have 2 huge piles of stems ready to be cooked/eaten! It's at it's best for us now!

  • There may be good sticks on the plants, but it's good practise to stop pulling rhubarb by mid-June to allow the plants to build up for the following year. image


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Almost time for russet and plum mincmeat for Xmas yummy yumm no suet at all and far tastier than normal mincemeat

  • stewFree stew the rhubarb with a little water and sugar in the overnight and freeze.... Or make rhubarb and custard muffins ..... I made some a few weeks back yumm yumm .....( freeze the custard in icr cube trays then add to mix) http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1952/rhubarb-and-custard-muffins

  • Sorry for delay in updating, been busy freezing goodies!!  Also making chocolate courgette cake, spiced apple sauce, tomato bread, sticky plum flapjack. Nom nom nom!!!!

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