Some preserves are content to sit quietly on the shelf. This one has other ideas.
Blueberries slow-cooked with apple until they find each other completely. The blueberry deep, richly fruited and entirely sure of itself, the apple lending a quiet, rounded sweetness that softens every edge without stealing the show and a thread of orange running through both of them like something that was always meant to be there.
The result is a preserve of real depth and quiet confidence. Dark as a winter evening in the jar, complex and alive on the tongue, with a richness that lingers long after the last spoonful. It is the kind of thing that makes you put the bread down and just think for a moment.
It is, in short, exactly what a preserve should be plus a little bit more.
Ingredients: Sugar. Blueberries. Apples. Orange Juice. Lemon juice. Pectin.
Grown in our garden and orchard at Cross Bank Farm.
Some preserves are content to sit quietly on the shelf. This one has other ideas.
Blueberries slow-cooked with apple until they find each other completely. The blueberry deep, richly fruited and entirely sure of itself, the apple lending a quiet, rounded sweetness that softens every edge without stealing the show and a thread of orange running through both of them like something that was always meant to be there.
The result is a preserve of real depth and quiet confidence. Dark as a winter evening in the jar, complex and alive on the tongue, with a richness that lingers long after the last spoonful. It is the kind of thing that makes you put the bread down and just think for a moment.
It is, in short, exactly what a preserve should be plus a little bit more.
Ingredients: Sugar. Blueberries. Apples. Orange Juice. Lemon juice. Pectin.
Grown in our garden and orchard at Cross Bank Farm.