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Milk Jelly with Strawberries, Elderflower, and Cobnut Brittle

01/07/2018 By The Seasonal Table Leave a Comment

Milk Jelly with Strawberries, Elderflower, and Cobnut Brittle

The tiny alpine variety of strawberry that grows wild might just be the tastiest strawberry there is. The minuscule fruits, sherbet sweet and deeply flavoursome, melt in the mouth in seconds. We have a small patch of them growing in the dappled shade of some rosebushes. We also forage a few extra from the grassy…

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Gooseberry Soda

15/07/2017 By The Seasonal Table Leave a Comment

Gooseberry Soda

In the dappled shade of an enormous cooking apple tree sits the gooseberry patch. Three sprawling bushes that produce an abundance of bright green, delicately striped berries. They dangle from the branches like Japanese lanterns. Neighbouring the gooseberries at the moment is an untamed bed of nettles (that we haven’t had a chance to strim…

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Gorse Flower and Raw Honey Mojito

26/04/2017 By The Seasonal Table Leave a Comment

Gorse Flower and Raw Honey Mojito

Last weekend we made gorse flower rum. High up in the hills and woodland, the gorse bushes were blanketed in bright, canary-yellow petals. The individual blooms have a fragile scent that echoes a combination of coconut, vanilla and pineapple. And the collective fragrance of a whole gorse bush, amplified by the warmth of sunshine, reminds…

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We're Kathy and Tom and we live in the hills of rural Somerset, England. The Seasonal Table is our blog about slow food and slow living. It is a journal of seasonal recipes, featuring organically home grown, wild-harvested, or locally sourced ingredients, and a collection of smallholding stories and activities. Read More…

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