Perfect plum jam

Ingredients Fills 4 x ½ lb or 250 g jars 1 kg rhubarb 1 kg preserving sugar 60 ml gin 1 lemon 1 Wash the rhubarb and cut into 2-3 cm chunks. Put into the preserving pan with the sugar, gin, lemon juic

Tomatoes In the freezer Cooked tomatoes freeze very well – make a big batch of fresh pomodoro or arrabbiata sauce and portion it up for the freezer. Make a preserve Try a spiced tomato chutney, tomato

I feel like I’m in a novel. It’s high summer and I am strolling through the kitchen garden (a grand renaming of my tiny raised beds that suits my mood) in a frock (impractical, but ditto mood), collec

SERVES 2 | PREP 10 MINS PLUS RESTING | COOK 45 MINS | EASY 2 duck breasts, fat scored diagonally chinese five-spice jasmine rice, cooked, to serve baby leaf greens, cooked, to serve PLUM SAUCE 2 large

THIS MONTH Growing raspberries

Serves 4 Prep time 10 min Cook time 20 min • 10 small figs • Squeeze lemon juice • 1 tsp caster sugar • 4 tbsp mascarpone to serve For the crumble top • 4 fig rolls • 50g plain flour • 20g soft brown