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Recipes

Make the most of your harvest with recipes shared by our members.

Roasted Pumpkin Seeds

Don’t throw away the seeds from your pumpkins! Instead why not try roasting them as a snack? Cooked this way and kept in an airtight container the seeds will keep crunchy for about 4 days.

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Fruit Cordial/Syrup

Home-made fruity yummy cordial – tastes as good as the fruit you have made it out of and will keep happily in your fridge for up to 3 months. I often use up to 4lb of fruit at a time in the recipe and alter the rest of t…

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Allotment Rhubarb Gin

So! If you have forced any early rhubarb great, as the final colour of the gin is a lighter more delicate shade of pink, but if not, carry on with the usual rhubarb and the colour will be darker but just as tasty! Lovely…

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Onion marmalade

Although you start with a lot of onions they melt down and this recipe makes about 2 jars! So you may want to double the recipe ……..

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Raspberry Gin

Once tasted – never forgot! It can be sipped neat or pop a little in the bottom of a tall glass and add champagne or prosecco.

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Strawberry Syrup by Elaine

Just when you are fed up of making jam and freezing the glut of your scrumptious home grown strawberries – try this! It’s full of flavour and versatile too. Keep it is the fridge for up to 3 months – though I have kept i…

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Cucumber pickle by Elaine

This is just like ‘granny used to make’ years ago when summers were long and hot and salads from the garden were the norm….now you can make this and eat it at Christmas after using the gluts of onions and cucumbers from …

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