Jams and Chutneys
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Home made preserves with local Ingredients. Garden and orchard grown plums, crab apples, damsons, greengages and heritage Cambridgeshire variety apples, all brought together by hand in a farmhouse kitchen.
Plum
jam 1
Essence of
Medici
Mirabelle de Nancy & Fiori di Sicilia
A thick golden jam made from one of the finest fruits, more commonly associated with French and Italian patisserie. This tiny golden plum (Mirabelle de Nancy) is complemented in this jam with the addition of Fiori di Sicilia a complex blend of fragrant citrus oils, it literally translates as ‘flowers of Sicily’.
References to Fiori di Sicilia in literature date back to the 15th century when one of the many House of Medici’s business interests traded in perfumes, it is still used as a fragrance today but better known as the main flavouring in panettone.
Ingredients: Mirabelle plum, apricot 5%, white sugar, citric acid, Fiori di Sicillia (essential oils of mandarin, orange, lemon, citron, and vanilla extract), sulphite
£2.50 per jar - min 212g
Plum
jam 2
Sweet Queen Claude
Greengages
The Greengage, originally a Middle Eastern fruit was imported from France by Sir William Gage and first planted at Hengrave Hall near bury St Edmunds in the early 18th Century. In France greengage are called Reine Claude or la bonne Reine after Queen Claude, Duchess of Brittany (1499-1524); the greengage was a highly prized fruit and would only have been available to the nobles.
Queen Claude was not ambitious but was remembered for her pious and sweet nature, and gave her name quite appropriately to the greengage, which is a sweet, fragrant fruit and somewhat understated in the culinary world. If you plant only one fruit tree, plant a Cambridge gage!
Ingredients: greengage, sugar, apple pectin, citric acid
£2.50 per jar - min 212g
Plum
jam 3
Prunus Trinitas
Wild
& Opal Plum & Damsons with Amoretto
A highly flavoured thick plum jam made from three varieties each imparting their own flavours and setting qualities to the jam. Wild plum, with its prolific blossoms is a bee and butterfly’s paradise producing tiny fruits rich in pectin and flavour.
Opal, is an early plum, full of flavour and sweetness. Damson, the classic English plum giving depth of flavour and colour, and finally for decadence, Disaronno Amaretto liqueur to bring out the natural flavour of the fruit pits.
Ingredients: wild plum, opal plum, pectin, citric acid, sugar. Disaronno Amaretto
£2.50 per jar - min 212g
Strawberry
jam
Treasure Hoard
Late Season
Strawberry, Fig and Sherry
The most expensive of our jams to make! Not for sharing!
Name - The Saxons were pretty big on treasure hoards that they would bury to come back to later on if they remembered, we make it easier to find your own treasure hoard.
Ingredients: late season English strawberries, black fig, sugar, sherry, citric acid, pectin.
£2.50 per jar - min 370g
Chili
Jam
Dante’s Inferno
A jelly which is sweet and tangy with an unmistakable punch of chili which goes well with cold cuts of meat or with cheese, particularly Brie.
Name - Dante imagined nine circles of hell of which the first was the inferno. Thanks to the discovery of the chili pepper it is possible to visit this circle accompanied by a nice piece of cheese without proceeding to the remaining eight.
Ingredients: apple juice, dried chili, sugar, pectin, citric acid.
£2.50 per jar - min 212g
Chilli
chutney
Confess All
Autumn Tomato
Chili Chutney
A blend of autumn fruit and vegetables with a generous addition of scotch bonnet chilies and spice. Hot! The chutney has a fruity, tangy flavour with a nice after-burn! A must for those with a taste for chili and great accompaniment for cold meats and cheese
Ingredients: Tomato, apple, onion, carrot, celery, sultanas, brown sugar, malt vinegar, scotch bonnet chili, chili flakes, black mustard seed, onion seed, tomato puree, dried garlic, fresh garlic, garam masala, ground mixed spice.
£2.75 per jar - min 370g
Apple Chutney
Boar Blimey
This traditional apple chutney is the perfect accompaniment for roast boar, pork pie or cheddar cheese. Intense apple and raisin, slightly sweet with piquant undertones of tamarind!
Ingredients: Apples, onions, raisins, brown sugar, malt vinegar, tamarind paste, yellow mustard seed, ground ginger, salt, corn starch.
£2.75 per jar - min 370g
Mango
chutney
Toli’s Relish
Fragrant
Apple and Mango
A vibrant golden coloured chutney, intensely fruity with undertones of ginger and spice, mild chili. Perfect for ham or cheese.
Name - Earl Toli took the Province of Huntendune (Huntingdon) by force in 921 from the king.
Ingredients: Mango, apple, onion, fresh ginger, brown sugar, malt vinegar, green cardamom, cinnamon, cumin seed, coriander seed, black onion seed, turmeric, fresh chili, chili flakes, salt, corn starch.
£2.75 per jar - min 370g
Plum
and Apple Chutney
Wassail Reward
Our new recipe: This is a rich and sweet, intensely flavoured, dark chutney. The principle flavour is the opal plums sourced from a local orchard. This chutney is slowly boiled with dates and apples and spices to give it body and intensify the flavours. Perfect partner with cheese, cold meats and great in your sandwiches!
Name - The Saxons invented the wassailing of fruit trees as a mid-winter rite to ensure a good crop, if you do it right your efforts are rewarded.
Opal plum, apple, onion, date, brown sugar, malt vinegar, ginger, garlic, salt, ground cardamom, yellow mustard seed, corn starch.
£2.75 per jar - min 370g
Tomato
Chutney
Alfred’s Great
A mild version of our Autumn tomato chutney without the heat of the scotch bonnet chili for those with tamer tastes.
Name - Alfred the Great was the King of Wessex and the Anglo-Saxons in the 9th century, he'd have loved this.
Ingredients: Tomato, apple, onion, carrot, celery, sultanas, brown sugar, malt vinegar, chilli flakes, black mustard seed, onion seed, tomato puree, dried garlic, fresh garlic, garam masala, ground mixed spice.
£2.75 per jar - min 370g
Apple,
Date and Walnut Chutney
Victual Tickler
A rich, flavourful chutney with a nice texture and subtle walnut flavour. Mild and sweet. A perfect buffet accompaniment.
Name - Victuals is an old name for food, this is ideal to tickle it up to something grander.
Ingredients: Apple, onion, dates, walnuts, sultanas, raisins, sugar, vinegar, fresh ginger, ground mixed spice, cinnamon, chili flakes, salt.
£2.75 per jar - min 370g
Herb
and Crab Apple Jelly
Canute’s Delight
A delicious jelly to accompany roast pork, veal, and chicken or cold meat. Made from organically grown local herbs and tiny, wild golden hornet crab apples.
Name - Canute was King of England in 1020 when building began on Great Paxton's Saxon church, he may have even been responsible in some part for it being built at all.
Ingredients: Golden Hornet crab apples, rosemary, thyme, bay leaf, sugar.
£2.50 per jar - min 212g
Mayflower
(Hawthorn) Jelly
May Queen’s Delight
In spring hawthorns up to two-inch thorns give rise to clusters of white or pink blossom traditionally called Mayflowers and used in early May Day celebrations. In early winter the hawthorn tree bears abundant vivid red berries called haws which were an important source of food in Anglo-Saxon times. This jelly is made from the haws found growing locally in many hedgerows.
Name - May is a name for hawthorn as well as the name of the month. "Ne'er cast a clout 'ere May is out" refers to the blossom of hawthorns emerging rather than the end of the month.
Ingredients: Haws, sugar, pectin, citric acid.
£2.50 per jar - min 212g
Mulled
Wine Jelly
Lady Godiva’s Grog
Red wine and spices have warmed and comforted through the ages. A Christmas crumpet essential.
Name - Lady Godiva lived in the late Saxon era or just after (or maybe much longer after), a swig of grog or mulled wine would have helped keep her warm while riding naked through Coventry.
Ingredients: Red wine, apple, ginger, clove, nutmeg, star anise, cinnamon, all-spice berries, lemon, orange, pectin, citric acid.
£2.50 per jar - min 212g
Our preserves are produced in busy domestic kitchens. Please note that these kitchens handle ALL ALLERGENS, therefore we cannot guarantee that any of our produce is ALLERGEN FREE.
Picture credits: Plums - Erin Silversmith, used under GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 / Tomatoes - Softeis, used under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license / Mirabelles - Helge Klaus Rieder, used under Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication license.
