Hedgerow Jelly

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Times Cookbook

By Frances Bissell

Published 1995

  • About

Use whatever edible wild berries, fruit, hips and haws you can find, and if possible, use those of the same colour together to give red or purple jellies. On the other hand, real foragers will not be too bothered about this nicety, and will use a handful of this and a portion of that. Most wild fruits are sour and indeed quite inedible unless cooked with sugar, and most have enough pectin to give them a set. Elderberries, however, need added pectin, which is best obtained from windfall appl

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