HEDGEROWS ACROSS EUROPE have been bursting with damsons. Both sweet and tart, these wonderfully purple fruits, known as the “plums of Damascus,” are a natural choice for jam. But they’re also a ...

Cabbage soup Fay Ward of Portsmouth has lost her recipe and would like another one. Damson Plum Pudding Cake Juanita Moore of Virginia Beach wrote, “I am looking for a recipe I had for many years and ...

These seasonal mini plums are a sweet revelation in an easy baked custard pie I realised recently that a lot of my mates don’t know what damsons are. When I launched my online cookery school, Damson ...

Damson cheese is a very old recipe. It isn’t a cheese in the dairy sense but a thick fruity paste; a throwback to when the term ‘cheese’ was used more loosely. It is mysteriously inky and black and ...

Capture the last days of summer with damsons, fragrant figs and gin I’m up the rickety ladder, my head deep in the fig tree, its leaves spread like giant’s hands. It is my annual race with the ...

Makes 6 half-pints Damson plums make famously dark, prunelike jam. This classic English preserve is reminiscent of dried fruit, with a concentrated and luxurious flavor. If you choose not to process ...

Forget foraging for sloe berries this autumn because this year is all about damson gin. Gin sales hit a whopping £1 million a day… with Brits drinking 19 million litres in just one year The wild ...

Rick Stein uses a food processor to whizz together the topping for his sticky damson cobbler – it's up to the oven to do the hard work. Spread the damsons over the base of a 2 litre/3½ pint shallow ...