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Our tips for Plums

  • Buried treasure for little Pirates

    Submitted by Alice Squires, Warrington

    If you have a few odd pieces of fruit which need eating up, slice them into the correct number of bowls for your little pirates and smother in freshly made custard (instant, tin or carton will do, but work out more expensive and it's easier to get a specific amount if you make it up yourself). My children love hunting for the buried treasure so much that they told me I should sell the recipe! You can easily adapt this idea with a few sweets, chocolate buttons or whatever else you have to hand...

  • Berries or soft fruit

    Submitted by Jane, Hampshire

    Make a punnet of raspberries or strawberries (or any soft fruit) into a pot of jam. Weigh the fruit, add half the weight in sugar, put in a microwave safe bowl and zap for 10 minute intervals until it is thickened (but not too thick). Store in the fridge in a clean glass jar. One punnet makes one normal sized jam jar. Perfect!

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