Into 2014 – Baby figs
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Les Jardins d'ici
The wonders of growing, eating and sharing fruit
Promising fruitage on that South West London tree…
Apples picked this morning were on today’s menu here in Southfields as well as a kiwi picked three days ago in Wimbledon. We compared it to a kiwi purchased in the trade.
I ran a compote-making workshop at the London Orchard Project’s Apple Festival in October. I bought a Christmas gift from them to create a legacy for London.
There are still apples on the tree nearby. People can see it above their heads on the street everyday, including children whose school entrance is twenty meters away.
Just an image of an apple and a pear… to wish you a merry Christmas!
Adding enough thickening agent to a jam is a quick way of making the delicious sweets that we call in France ‘pâtes de fruits’. Probably not a recipe for complete beginners, but still not very difficult.
Here is the story of the pear and raspberry jam I donated to St Barnabas’ church for sale at their Christmas fair today, and its recipe. Not the best in my view though, I prefer the pear and lemon I made for Abundance. Continue reading 
‘I found these quinces in a bag on someone’s front lawn on the outskirts of Seaford.’, did she write. I have quince sharing stories too, and a dream to tell about.
Beyond a comparative tasting between figs picked in Wimbledon and figs purchased in the trade, we look at the pleasures of eating and the dislikes for waste as grounds for a better use of local fruit.
Using windfalls at the end of the harvesting season is like desperately trying to save what shouldn’t have been lost in the first place.
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