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Hedgerow Jelly (Morag Orchard) Ingredients

1 kg. crab apples or Bramleys 250g blackberries 250g sloes or damsons 250g elderberries or rowan berries 125g hawthorn berries (haws) 125g rosehips (wild or cultivated) 2ltrs cold water Cane granulated sugar (fair trade)

Directions

• Rinse and chunk the apples. Do not peel or core. • Strip the berries from their stalks • Put the fruit in a preserving pan and add 2 litres of water. • Bring pan to boil, turn down the heat and simmer for about an hour until fruit is mushy. You can mash it in the pan with a potato masher at this stage. • Strain the pulp through a muslin and leave it to drip through slowly overnight preferably. Do not squeeze it through at any stage or it will go cloudy. • Measure the juice and return to clean preserving pan. Bring to boiling point then turn heat down to half. Add 500g warmed sugar to each 500ml juice and stir until completely dissolved. Bring back to the boil and boil steadily until setting point is reached. This should be checked after five minutes as this is all it may take to reach setting point.

• To find setting point you can put a little juice on a cold saucer in the fridge and see if it wrinkles after a few minutes or you can dip a wooden spoon in the juice and turn it in the air for 20 seconds and see if it drips or flakes off the spoon (this is my preferred method). If it forms flakes then it is ready. • Skim off the scum. I use a small strainer to scoop most of it up. A small knob of butter added helps to clear the surface. • Pot into warm sterilised jars (pop them in the oven to warm while you are making the jelly and they should be sterile) and cover with a wax disc (you can dip it in vodka or whisky if you like which will keep the mould away)

Cover with a lid when cold and label. • This is my basic recipe but if you cannot find any of the above ingredients then just make up with more of some of the others. I often find that the elderberries ripen before the other fruits so it pays to pick them and pop them in the freezer ready for use when the others are ripe. STOP PRESS It is with much regret that I have to announce that the house to house collections in respect of the 2020 Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal have been cancelled, falling victim to the Covid 19 pandemic. Collecting boxes will be placed as usual in local shops and pubs, St Andrews School and the Yetminster medical centre. If anyone who normally makes a donation would like to do please contact me or, in Chetnole, David Dixon and Roger Excell in Ryme for details. Aubone Pyke PAO for Yetminster, Chetnole and Ryme Intrinseca.

Wriggle Valley Womens Group

Hope you have all had a good lockdown and have kept fit and healthy. As we are more than six from different households we will be unable to meet together until the new year – this will be with a bit of luck and a good prevailing wind! This is all rather sad but we must all keep healthy and look forward to new beginnings in 2021.

Keep safe and stay healthy

Best wishes

Ruth Sanford

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