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Recipes using fruit

Moroccan Chicken Recipe

Recipe for Moroccan Chicken. Serves 4 people when served with couscous or turmeric flavoured rice and flat breads.

Broad Bean and Radish Salad with Tahini Dressing Recipe

Recipe for Broad Bean and Radish Salad with Tahini Dressing. The Tahini dressing will keep for 1 week in the fridge.

Plum Cake Recipe

Recipe for Plum Cake. This is lovely served hot or cold with Greek Yogurt and honey. I sent this recipe to The British Farm Council in the 1980's

Lemon Oil Recipe

Recipe for Lemon Oil. Keep lemon oil on hand to make salad dressings or to use when cooking fish. Great for pasta and mash as well.

Broad Bean and Courgette Pilaf Recipe

Recipe for Broad Bean and Courgette Pilaf. Takes about ½ an hour to prepare, 30 mins to 1 hour to cook Serve in bowls topped with griddled courgette.

Caramelised Onion Chutney Recipe

Recipe for Caramelised Onion Chutney. Makes about 3 lbs. This recipe was given to us by a friend who lives in France where she served it with pate on toast

Hot Carrot and Chilli Chutney Recipe

Recipe for Hot Carrot and Chilli Chutney Makes about 4 lbs The carrot adds a sweetness and body to the chutney which gets its heat from the chilli of course

Apple, Date and Chilli Chutney Recipe

This easy recipe for Apple, Date and Chilli Chutney makes about 5 lbs which may sound a lot but it won't last long once you taste how delicious it is

Sugar-Free Dried Apricot Cake Recipe

Recipe for Sugar-Free Dried Apricot Cake. This is a lovely moist cake and good for folk who have to be careful with sugar.

Blackcurrant Liqueur Recipe

Recipe for Blackcurrant Liqueur. Tuck it away for a special occasion and/or add a drop over ice-cream. It only gets better the longer you leave it !!

Banana & Raisin Loaf Recipe

Recipe for Banana and Raisin Loaf. Lovely spread with butter. Wrap well in foil when it has cooled down. Really best eaten the following day

Elderflower Cordial Recipe

Recipe for Elderflower Cordial. Beautiful and refreshing either with iced water & extra lemon slices or tonic water. Also poured over ice cream for dessert

All in one bowl Cherry Cake Recipe

Recipe for Cherry Cake Recipe Really simple and easy to make While still hot brush with Apricot Jam Takes 3 hours to make and bake but you'll eat it faster

Dried Apricot Jam Recipe

Recipe for Dried Apricot Jam. A lovely jam with a beautiful color and flavor. A big advantage is that it can be made when apricots are not in season.

Prune, Apple and Walnut Chutney Recipe

Easy recipe for Prune, Apple and Walnut Chutney. Pour into sterilised jars and leave for at least 8 weeks to allow the flavours to develop if you can wait.

Squashy Rhubarb Cake Recipe

Recipe for Squash Rhubarb Cake. Serve as a cake or warm as a pudding with custard. Absolutely delicious A new take on rhubarb crumble but with all the taste

Rhubarb and Custard Ice Cream Recipe

Recipe for Rhubarb and Custard Ice Cream. Remember those lovely childhood sweets? This ice cream uses the combination in a new guise.

Tomato and Orange Chutney Recipe

Recipe for Tomato and Orange Chutney. An experiment as I had oranges to spare! Made at the end of August and tasted today (13th December) and it's lovely.

Gooseberry and Ginger Chutney Recipe

Recipe for Gooseberry and Ginger Chutney. A dark, spicy chutney that is perfect with cheese - can be used in about a month but keeps for much longer.

Kentish Apple Tart Recipe

Recipe for Kentish Apple Tart. Kent, the garden of England, has always produced wonderful apples and so this recipe is particularly suited to Kent apples

Dorset Apple Cake Recipe

Recipe for Dorset Apple Cake. An apple cake incorporating cooking (bramley apples), lemon juice and cinnamon. Lovely served with clotted cream.

Apple Cake (Torta con le mele) Recipe

Recipe for Apple Cake (Torta con le mele). Torta con le mele .....cake with apples to you and me, but my Italian friend Titta gave me the recipe.

Blackberry Brandy Recipe

Recipe for Blackberry Brandy. Scrumptious on a cold winter's evening or mixed with iced lemonade on hot summer's evening if you have any left by then.

Vegetable & Red Bean Pilau Recipe

Recipe for Vegetable and Red Bean Pilau. A deliciously different, low-calorie one-pot meal. Serve garnished with coriander leaves.

Tandoori Chicken with Radish Salad Recipe

Recipe for Tandoori Chicken with Radish Salad. Plain chapattis make a good accompaniment and are also fat free. A low fat and healthy meal

Damson Gin or Brandy Recipe

Recipe for Damson Gin. Decant the spirit for a winter warmer. Use the rich alcoholic damsons as a pudding and don't drive afterwards!

Damson Jars or Damson Pots Recipe

Recipe for Damson Jars or Damson Pots. This makes a lovely gift for the elderly who like a no effort pudding on tap, and the brandy is hardly noticeable.

Pineapple & Courgette Jam Recipe

Recipe for Pineapple and Courgette Jam. Adapted from an old book and it's worked good enough for everyone to be eating it without going YUK!

Date and Orange Loaf Recipe

An old recipe for Date and Orange Loaf. Produces a light moist loaf cake with a hint of citrus. Absolutely delicious - a family favourite

Damson Gin Recipe

Recipe for Damson Gin. When fruit has been used, de-stone and dry on a low heat for a few hours in the oven. Can be used for fruit cakes or x-mas pudding

Rhubarb Roll Recipe

Recipe for Rhubarb Roll. The milk and jam makes a lovely fruity sauce, serve warm with cream or custard. Does not freeze.

Courgette Muffins Recipe

Recipe for Courgette Muffins. Kids will love them and that you wont stop at eating just one!! Absolutely amazing and delicious (makes 24 muffins).

Jerusalem Artichoke and Carrot Salad Recipe

Recipe for Jerusalem Artichoke and Carrot Salad. Delicious with a toasted cheese sandwich or with potatoes Can be prepared in advance and kept in the fridge

Lemon, Marmalade and Courgette Cake Recipe

Recipe for Lemon, Marmalade and Courgette Cake. Very moist with a good lemon flavour. Serve on its own or with custard as a pudding.

Rhubarb Vodka Recipe

Recipe for Rhubarb Vodka. This can be done with other fruit than rhubarb - for example, raspberry or blueberry. Makes a nice present.

Rhubarb Snow Recipe

Recipe for Rhubarb Snow. This dessert recipe is the perfect recipe for the springtime season of rhubarb when it is nice and tender. Serves 4 to 5.

Carrot Cake Recipe

Carrot Cake Recipe. If you want to freeze it, leave it un-topped and put the topping on when de-frosted. Simple and easy to make.

Fruit Flapjack Recipe

Recipe for Fruit Flapjack. Perfect for breakfast on the run or in school lunchboxes. You can even pretend its healthy what with all the cereals and fruit!

Blueberry Muffins Recipe

Recipe for Blueberry Muffins. They are really easy to make. The important thing to remember is DON'T use a mixer and DON'T over mix. Makes 12-14 muffins.

Apple and Blackberry Slump Recipe

Recipe for Apple and Blackberry Slump. Despite the fact this has got ½ lb of mascarpone in it, a jug of custard really is a must, or cream or icecream!

Melba Summer Pudding Recipe

Recipe for Melba Summer Pudding. Make the best of summer fruit. Can be served with Low Fat Creme Frais, or with cream, it's your choice! Enough for 4 people

Spiced Cranberry Shrub Recipe

Recipe for Spiced Cranberry Shrub. Shrub is a name which is borrowed from the Arabs - fruit sherbet drink. Makes 4 glasses and takes 5 minutes.

Italian Bread Pudding Recipe

Recipe for Italian Bread Pudding a twist on the British. This is really easy to make. Serve warm with cream. For a skinny option you can use creme fraiche.

Moist Banana Bread Recipe

Recipe for Moist Banana Bread. Ideal for using up any old mushy black bananas! Very moist and keeps for days (if not gobbled up all in one day).

Plum Jam 2 Recipe

Another recipe for Plum Jam. There is enough jam for 8 jars about 450g in each or whatever you have. This jam is lovely on rice puddings or on Ice cream.

My Grannies Apple and Rhubarb Chutney Recipe

Recipe for My Grannies Apple and Rhubarb Chutney. Leave for a couple of months, somewhere cool and dark, before eating. Great with cheese and cold meats.

Persian Baked Stuffed Melon Recipe

Recipe for Persian Baked Stuffed Melon. Kavun dolmasi or stuffed melon is one of those dishes that has existed since the 15th century, maybe even earlier.

Banana Bread Recipe

Recipe for Banana Bread. Moist and delicious with loads of banana flavour! Once tasted you'll never throw away those ripe bananas again.

Quince Cheese Recipe

Recipe for Quince Cheese submitted by Swing Swang. Once cool the cheese should be as solid as a soft bit of cheddar. Will keep for a few weeks in the fridge

Mulled Pears Recipe

Recipe for Mulled Pears. An impromptu dessert that would work really well as a trifle base. As an added bonus you get to drink the Mulled Wine too.

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