Kitchen Garden

QUINTESSENTIALLY BRITISH PICKLES

I love this time of year as the allotment has a vast array of produce as the late summer crops ease into the autumn. It is that perfect time to think of pickles and chutneys, so that all the season’s hard work does not go to waste and you have some delicious treats in the cupboard as the winter nights draw in.

There are two pickles I grew up on and I can’t live without a jar or two of them in the cupboard all

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