Eat what you grow and harvest and in my freezer is so many tubs of Black Currents from the new 8 bush hedgerow i put into the new “Quote” Park Garden and Food Forest.  We planted the two year old Black Current Bushes on the first year of starting the turning of a 3/4 acre of pasture into a food forest/garden.  2024 was their 3rd year in the the ground an they produced heavily for us on year five in age.

The largest Black Currents we have ever grown and they are a delightful flavor with much less bite then normal, perhaps due to all the rain we had? I made a Black Current/Honey jam but the kind most folks in canning would call a fruit butter as it was slow simmered till it was thick enough.. not a syrup but not thick like a proper jam.

Black Current Cake Recipe

• 1/4 cup butter
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 cup black current jam
• 1 cup of milk
• 2 tsp of fresh ginger
• 1/2 tsp of salt
• 3 cups of flour
• 2 tbsp of baking powder

Cream the butter and sugar together, add eggs, mix well, add your jam and milk and grated fresh ginger, mix together, then add the dry, flour, salt and then baking powder. Into your greased Bundt pan, This was baked at 375 for 45 minutes and double checked with a clean knife before removal, let it sit to cool before flipping it, i put the cake plate on top and then turned it out.

Can be topped with your choice of glaze or whip cream, i had a tiny bit of cream cheese and hand blended it with some of the black current jam, ( if you want it smooth, stick blender would would great)  Cool the cake then for icing.

The cake is not sweet and it does have a ginger bite to it, the extra topping and whip cream takes it to a new level at serving time.

30 day challenge!!! WOW, can’t you believe it, today is the day! 30 day challenge of blogging every day!  It felt wonderful in some ways, and on other days i struggled to find something to share, other days it flowed for me. Thank you for joining me on this challenge.

I will finish out the no buy November an then Dec will be here in a blink! I have figured out what my focus will be for Dec and i am looking forward to it.