Other fruits, such as damsons, apples, pears, and peaches, were also made into marmalades. |
Whilst ornamental cherries produce no edible crop, the blossom of apples, pears, plums and damsons is usually followed by fruit worth harvesting. |
For a crop of apples, pears, plums, damsons, gages or cherries, which are left outside all year round, try dwarf and pyramid fruit trees. |
Like the cherries, the gin-soaked damsons also retain their stone so that the fruit keeps its shape. |
There are damsons in other parts of the British Isles, but the flavour of the smaller Westmorland damson is said to be second to none. |
He home-cures pancetta and bresaola and knows exactly what to do with a glut of damsons. |