On a recent visit to the English Heritage site of Old Sarum, near Salisbury we discovered that the gift shop has a rather good selection of preserves. We arrived late after doing a long walk and they kindly kept the shop open for us; they were just about to close, and so we were admitted up the ramp and across the bridge for a private viewing while the masked vendor waited patiently, though I didn't feel I could linger as long as I would have liked to otherwise. But I was very happy with these purchases - never come across the combination of fig and raspberry before, and black fig at that. Tried it just now on toast - very nice, gives a sort of depth and tang to the raspberries, their sweetness breaking through the dark sombre almost treacly tones of the black fig. The blood orange marmalade was very good as well, might be a suitable substitute for the RNLI marmalade we bought in Weston a few weeks ago, and which we thought might have no peer. Label recommends the marmalade goes well with (or should that be in?) Cheslea Buns, while the fig and raspberry goes well in a Bakewell tart.
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