lots of fruit coming in now, so I can spare some for the rumptopf – 200g of cherries, and 200g of victoria plums – with 200g of sugar and a slosh of dark rum.
The pears are ripe, and falling from the tree, so time to pick and ripen them – and I think there will be plenty for the rumptopf too – our pear tree appears to be biannual, but on its fruiting year, it makes up for lost time.
Early for apples too, and many are small, but rosy and ripe, and we have already been gathering windfalls – time to think about picking them too – a friend tells me you can’t pick them before October and they wont keep if you do… but I find they keep long enough for me to process them into the freezer and the certainly dont keep if they rot on the ground or the sheep get to them first!
colour it green 