Aug 20, 20181 minCrow berry jam from Foula – hard picking but delicious!Have you ever tasted crow berry jam? Crow berries (also known as heather berries), are the purple berries on Cross-leaved Heath (Erica...
Aug 20, 20182 minMy homebrew IPA – Better than Brew Dog!I made my first homebrew a few years ago when beer tax went up yet again − brewing our own seemed like a sensible austerity strategy at...
Aug 20, 20181 minPlum butter – or Pflaumenmus – a traditional German fruit spreadPlum butter – or pflaumenmus in German – is a traditional dark fruit spread. The funny thing about this jam is that it is slowly baked...
Aug 19, 20182 minSloe gin – four simple steps and at a lot of patienceI avoid commercially available sloe gin. It’s too sweet to my liking, and the flavour is one dimensional and boring — no better than...
