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It’s April – Nearly time for hot cross buns. Take your pick from numerous accounts of their cultural origins and dozens of recipes to bake the best buns at home.
Hedge Garlic (Alliara petiola) is one of the earliest fresh spring greens of the hedgerow, its bright green garlicky leaves appearing from February and at their best as the plant flowers in April and May. Also known as garlic mustard or Jack-by-the-hedge, it has a more delicate, but distinctly oniony, aroma and flavour than the better known wild garlic or ramsons.
It’s February – eat some blood oranges
It’s January – eat some cavolo nero
Seasons are not just for Christmas
Discovery is the earliest commercial apple variety, ripe in mid-August. For a few weeks, Discovery apples are the best around, juicy, crunchy and aromatic.
For their sublime aroma and intense sweetness, and for the sake of our desperately declining cherry orchards, do whatever it takes to find and eat some British cherries in July. We’re losing our cherry orchards at an alarming rate and the only way to save them is to eat more British cherries.
Cherry plums are back in season, ripening on hedgerow and garden trees across Britain. The fruit are versatile and delicious. Taste and texture, like the colour, vary between trees, but most of the fruit are excellent eaten raw. They can be substituted for plums in jams, chutneys and other recipes, or pressed for their sweet juice.
Hedge Garlic (Alliara petiola) is one of the earliest fresh spring greens of the hedgerow, its bright green garlicky leaves appearing from February and at their best as the plant flowers in April and May. Otherwise known as garlic mustard or Jack-by-the-hedge, it has a more delicate, but nonetheless distinctly oniony, aroma and flavour than [...]
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