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Dating machine
This is not a machine to help you find the perfect date or match (unfortunately),
but a device to mark our bottles of juice with individual batch and date stamps. It is a
clever device, like a computer printer, which instead of printing on paper, prints on bottles or caps,
as it senses them approaching on a conveyor belt. So from now on, each bottle of juice that you get from us will have a code on the cap, and thus can be traced back
to the exact apples that went into it, and these back to the trees on which they were grown.
So perhaps I was wrong at the start. In a way it is a machine to help make a match,
but only between apples and juice.
In our farm-shop at the moment:
We now have strawberries for sale. With the late season we expect these to
last until the end of July, and possibly into August. We should have pick-your-own by the time
you read this. Raspberries are also available, though pick-your-own is unlikely, as the crop
seems smaller than in previous years.
Apple juice is also available, and mixed strawberry and raspberry juices will be available,
provided that we can make enough of them to meet demand. Strawberry jam, plum jam, and
apple jelly, made only with our own fruits, are available in our shop as usual, and we
also have bag-in-box juice.
Recipe: Baked Strawberries
Ingredients:
- 450g (1 lb) Strawberries
- 2 tbsp. Chopped almonds, toasted
- 3 tbsp. Apricot preserve
- 2 tbsp. Cointreau or Grand Marnier
Method:
Heat the oven to 180°C / 360°F / Gas mark 4.
Wash and hull the strawberries. Warm the apricot preserve and liqueur in a small saucepan.
Put the berries in an ovenproof dish. Pour over the liqueur and apricot preserve. Sprinkle with almonds.
Bake for 5 minutes and serve immediately.
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