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A bit fruity

We don't have much luck with our fruit harvest. Our trees have leaf curl are strawberries are eaten by the blackbirds, we've had one raspberry from the bush Lord has knocked down 100 times and the blackcurrants have given us just a handful of berries. So, with a poor crop of any single fruit and a bowl full of plums which only seem to get harder not riper, I decided to cut our losses and harvest the fruit to make squash. Simple recipe: I used plums, white currents, black currents and strawberries but any soft fruits would do. Wash your fruit, don't peel it, don't de stalk it, do deseed/stone it Dump all the fruit (between 1lbs and 1.5lbs) into a saucepan Put a few springs of lemon verbena or mint Cover with water (about 5 pints) Boil until the fruit is mushy (it smells fantastic) Mush fruit a bit more with the back of a spoon Pass fruit through a colander into another saucepan Pass fruit back through a fine sieve into the first sau