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November 2011
Now that Christmas is approaching, you may well be thinking of gifts - if so, click on the blue logo in our shop section of the website and this may give you some ideas. The photo below shows the lidded straw baskets. The silk bags are about the same size and hold 3 of the 340g jars - or a selection of smaller 70g and 130g jars if you prefer.
For anyone in the London area there is a shop selling a special range of 500g jars of our preserves - this is Priscilla Carluccio's shop - Few and Far - at 249 Brompton Road (just round the corner from the Victoria and Albert museum). I am sure you will find many other present ideas there - and her website is www.fewandfar.net
We have a good range of plum jams this year as the Vale of Evesham crop was good. The greengages were absolutely delicious. Sadly many of the orchards are disappearing and it is difficult to track down the older and more rare varieties of plum. There is now a plum festival in the late summer, along with a blossom trail event in the spring - the website is www.pershoreplumfestival.org.uk if you are interested and near enough to go and visit.
If you have a request for a preserve that is not on our list, DO PLEASE ask us about it. As long as we can source the ingredients, we are happy to make up new recipes. We recently did a range of unusual jams for a shop in Tokyo - with things like Beetroot Jam, Onion Jam and suchlike......!
The Green Label jams and marmalades are made in very small quantities, but they still take a lot of cooking to get them anywhere near a jam consistency. Please remember, if you order them, that they do not have as firm a set as jams made with sugar, and they are also much darker than usual, due to the longer cooking time.
Your packages come to you filled with the surplus cardboard and paper that we shred up - we have a most useful and efficient machine. For the gardeners among you, the compost heap is a good place to dispose of it.
 For gifts we still have small straw lidded baskets, with brightly coloured shredded filling and grosgrain ribbon to tie them up:
The smaller one (15cm/5.5in diameter and height) will have 4 x 130g hexagonal jars and 4 x 70g hexagonal jars - filled with a mixture of our most popular jams, jellies, chutneys and marmalades. £16.00 each.
The larger one (18cm/7" diameter and 17cm/6.5" height) will hold 4 of the regular 340g jars - of your choice. £5.00 plus the cost of the 4 jars. You can order our Gift Items from the 'Blue Label' section in our online shop.
We also have some glass lidded clip-top jars (Continental version of the Kilner Jar) which hold 900g - and they make good family gifts. We have made them up with Orange Marmalade with Molasses & Rum, and with Traditional Seville Orange Marmalade (made with brown sugar).They are both popular marmalades - £11.00 per jar. We could make them up in other flavours if you know the recipient has a great favourite.
When ordering gifts, please remember to tell us what date you would like the gift to arrive by, as well as giving us the message to be enclosed with it. Last date for Christmas orders is 15. December.
The large 850g jars are still available. Jams and marmalades are £9.30 (for 340g jars priced at £4.25), £9.60 (£4.35), £9.80(£4.40) and £10.00(£4.55) and £10.40 (£4.65). For 800g chutneys, the prices are £10.60 (£4.55), £10.85 (£4.60), £11.10 (£4.70), £11.55 (£4.85) and £11.70 (£4.95). Some of these jars are listed in the Blue label section - if not, please phone or email us so that we can make them for you - not all of our preserves are kept in stock in this size.
If you live in the Paris area, we have a shop selling our marmalades - Sous L'Equateur. The owner is M. Eric Pinson - he is a chocolate maker. His address is 15 rue le Marois, 75016 Paris and the phone number is 0142 88 62 79.
If you are thinking of coming to Pembrokeshire, and are new to the area, we can send you some tourist literature with your order - let us know what your interests are. There are several golf courses, coastal and hill walks, horse riding, beaches, castles, a Roman gold mine, birdwatching along the coast, and gardens (the National Botanical Garden of Wales is about an hour's drive from us - with a huge glass domed area of Mediterranean plants, and much more).
The farmhouse here is available for holiday rentals( early March till the end of October each year) and sleeps up to 8 people - 2 double and 2 twin rooms (linen and towels provided) and 2 bathrooms. There is a comfortable conservatory, a cosy living room with an open fire (firewood supplied) and a big kitchen/dining room. We have 5 acres of grounds - mainly woodland - so plenty of room for children to run wild and streams to play in - bring wellies! Same price all year - £750 per week. This is a good centre from which to explore south west Wales.
We cook for hotels, restaurants and shops - if you would like the trade price list please phone, fax or email us. Mostly hotels take the 3 kilo plastic tubs but we can also make up hexagonal 70g glass miniature jars in boxes of 48. Orders are sent out on an overnight basis, and the minimum order is not too big.
Kind regards
Wendy
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