Beetroot and Chili Ketchup from Grandma’s Garden

I’m getting quite into ketchup. I mean, I’ve been quite into ketchup since I discovered bacon sandwiches, but it wasn’t until I made my first BBQ sauce that I realised you can improve on the stuff you get in bottles from the supermarket. It wasn’t until Yorkshire Grub’s Blackberry Ketchup that I realised you could…

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Moggy, an Easy-Peasey Ginger and Syrup Cake

Yorkshire Grub’s first proper sweet dish! Maybe that seems like an oversight to you, but savoury’s always been my big love. Moggy is extremely delicious, though. And there are no cats in it. Recipes for Moggy show up in various older cookbooks. Joan Poulson writes in a couple of her books that the name is most likely…

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Blackberry Ketchup

Late August, given heavy rain and sun For a full week, the blackberries would ripen. At first, just one, a glossy purple clot Among others, red, green, hard as a knot. You ate that first one and its flesh was sweet Like thickened wine: summer’s blood was in it Leaving stains upon the tongue and…

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Brandy Peaches

September’s on its way out and we’re edging into the back-end of peach season, which makes it the perfect time to preserve some for the winter. The best of the season runs from July through September, but October will have a bit of a peach hangover. There’s still time! The peach is, as is much of our…

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