Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Seasonal Pleasures

One of my favourite cookery books is Seasonal Pleasures by Rosamond Richardson and I was flicking through it's pages today seeking inspiration for something to do with all our gooseberries. We have made a few jars of jam but we wanted to try something else this year.



I think of all the summer berries gooseberries are my favourite - in fact there is nothing like a good gooseberry crumble
served with either custard, greek youghurt or vanilla ice cream as a special pudding - so a few of those will be made and frozen and we have decided to try gooseberry chutney and gooseberry and elderflower preserve too.

2 comments:

  1. Oh Ros, how could you! Mentioning other things as well as custard. There is only one thing for a crumble as good as yours - custard. Yogurt and ice cream have their place in the order of things, but they both look up to a good custard and so they should. I am only going to mention cream once. In the company of custard it is worthy of being no more than an additive to the custard (yes, I admit I add it to custard on special occasions).

    I've always wanted to write a fantasy history of custard and its impact on the world and everyday life. Imagine a country governed by champion Gooseberry Crumble and Custard* makers. It would be a grand coalition made in heaven with you as the PM. I want to live there.

    So. Ros, please stick to the custard when writing about gooseberry crumble, even if in private you do other things.

    PS. * The capital letters are deliberate.

    See you Tuesday. In the meantime Love to you and he indoors.

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  2. Oh, Robert, you've just made me spray the screen with coffee - note to self - stop drinking coffee whilst reading messages from Robert :)

    I think you should be chairman of the custard makers guild or head custard maker in this fantasy world where custard reigns supreme - I read your message out to Paul - he said something about us being taken into 'custardy'.

    See you Tuesday - do we need wellies? Arm-bands? :)

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