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Autumn is here. A time for slower days, hedgerow foraging and handmade comforts.
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Seasonal Recipes
A delicately infused Quince Gin
I find something wonderfully old-world about a quince. You don’t often see them to purchase, yet they are often seen in art and illustrations.
Those who grow them will tell you the trees have been heavy with fruit this year, the branches almost bowing under their weight.
It’s a fruit with a patience about it, not to be eaten raw, but transformed slowly, revealing its scent of honey and rose once cooked.
When we reached our to our readers for seasonal recipes, we were delighted to read this timely recipe by Andrea in Hertfordshire, offering a way to use a glut of quince and capture that sweet quince scent, without cooking.
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from the journal
Autumn at The Artisan Founder
AN EDITOR’S LETTER
The season has turned, and with it comes the gentle rhythm of gathering. The mornings are cooler now, and the scent of wood smoke lingers in the air.
Under the walnut tree, the harvest has begun, my basket slowly filling with what has quietly ripened through the summer months. Autumn always brings that reassuring reminder to slow down, to savour, and to store away the things that will see us through the darker months…
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Notes from under the walnut tree
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Perhaps it was the day of steady rain, the first sight of elderberries darkening on the hedgerows, or those rosehips I’d spotted last week, but the quiet joy of preserving fruit crept into my thoughts this week.
On a local walk, I came across a tree heavy with cherry plums, their colours catching the light, and their size just right for my littlest foraging basket. That basket now lives on the cool kitchen step, a permanent fixture catching the morning sun while keeping gathered fruit out of the heat…