There are certain things you just know. When your boyfriend takes you up to his grandmother's house, sits you down at her kitchen counter and tells you that today you are going to learn how to make ...

The flavour of plums becomes more intense as they bubble away in the pot for this dessert plum jelly. (Once you have drained all the juice for the jelly, store the plums in the fridge to eat with your ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. What could be more satisfying on a late summer’s day than fridge-cold fruit? Grapes rolling in your mouth like ...

The secret, I find, is to use real fruit juice as the base, and to use only enough gelatine to just set the jelly, so it dissolves as soon as it hits your mouth. As a kid I detested jelly; it probably ...