Mulled blackcurrant juice

Mulled BJ Makes around five ‘serves’. But I haven’t done the sums on standard alcoholic drinks. I like to keep things fairly simple and not too exotic in terms of ingredient availability, but you could certainly tweak this. I prefer cinnamon sticks...

Vivienne’s blackcurrant flummery

Blackcurrant flummery ( Serves six. Mum’s recipe, again. Anyone would think she was surrounded by blackcurrants.) Ingredients 300g blackcurrants (strigs removed) 6 tblspns sugar 1L milk 20g gelatine 4 tblspns boiling water Method Dissolve gelatine in boiling...

Summer pudding

Summer pudding(Unknown origin. Serve with custard and cream.) Ingredients 900g mixed blackcurrants & redcurrants (strigs removed), raspberries, strawberries, stoned cherries ½ cup sugar sliced white bread MethodRemove crusts from bread, line based and...

Blackcurrant slice

Blackcurrant slice(My Mum modified this recipe by L. Kingston of Abbotsham.) Ingredients 2 cups blackcurrants – strigs removed ½ tsps mixed spice ½ cup sugar water as required 1 tblspn plain flour ½ cup self-raising flour an additional...

Vivienne’s blackcurrant syrup

Blackcurrant syrup(Makes ~1300mL. This is Mum’s recipe and follows the traditional approach of using bucketloads of sugar. You can of course reduce the sugar or, if you don’t like added sugar in your blackcurrant juice, go and buy some BJ!) Ingredients 1kg...