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Home » Preserving Recipes

Preserving Recipes

Our preserving recipes help your capture seasonal produce so you can enjoy it all year round!

Our favourite recipes include treats like homemade Elderflower Cordial, Salt and Pepper Beef Jerky, Cinnamon Dried Apple Rings, a delicious Sloe and Blackberry Hedgerow Jam and our famous blackcurrant tipple - Homemade Blackcurrant Cassis!

 

woman tipping liquid, white elderflowers and lemon slices from a large saucepan into a sieve lined with white muslin cloth

Easy Elderflower Jam Recipe

Woman pouring rosehip juice from a large silver saucepan into a bowl lined with a sieve with an old cookbook and bowl of sugar

Wild Rose Hip Syrup Recipe

Womans hands ladling red strawberry vodka from a large blue and white bowl into several mixed small glass bottles

Homemade Strawberry Vodka Liqueur

Woman in grey spreading fresh homemade butter onto a pieces of sourdough toast on a wooden chopping board

How to Make Butter – both electric & hand power methods

Dark grey piece of slate with 2 slices of fresh sourdough bread topped with home made blackberry jam

Easy Homemade Blackberry Jam Recipe

black background with a jar of dried plantain leaves and small silver tins of plantain salve

Plantain Salve Recipe – How to Make it & Why You’d Want to

glass bottle of homemade elderflower cordial with lemons, flowers and glasses piled high with cordial and ice

How to Make Elderflower Cordial

How To Dry Mushrooms

woman in grey holding a black bowl or bright green homemade ramson pesto

Wild Garlic Pesto Recipe

a spoon of wild sloe and blackberry jam held over a piece of toast and damsons on a pewter plate

Sloe and Blackberry Hedgerow Jam

woman in grey pouring brandy from a glass jug into a big glass jar of blackcurrants

Homemade Blackcurrant Cassis Recipe

Womans in grey sealing an old fashioned glass jar filled with pickled red onions

Vibrant Pickled Red Onions : Quick and Easy Recipe

Pretty jars of homemade vanilla sugar to give as gifts

Homemade Vanilla Sugar | Edible Gifts

Freshly made Candied Orange Peel being drizzled with melted dark chocolate

Homemade Candied Orange Peel

Glass jar filled with dried apple rings that have been dusted with cinnamon

Cinnamon Dusted Dried Apple Rings

Small glass jar of dehydrated green vegetable powder to add a nutritional boost to recipes and meals

DIY Green Superfood Powder & Dehydrating Kale

Easy Homemade Sloe Vodka – The Perfect Wild and Foraged Gift

Blackberry Flavour Vodka

Blackberry Flavoured Vodka

Salt & Pepper Jerky

Salt and Pepper Beef Jerky Recipe

Rhubarb and Strawberry Jam

Rhubarb, Strawberry and Ginger Jam

small home smoker on woodburner

How Not to Build a Smoker

womans hands slicing red tomato on wooden chopping board

Dehydrating Tomatoes

Blackcurrant Syrup Recipe (AKA Make Your Own Ribena!)

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