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Thursday 27 September 2012

Ascott Newsletter - October 2012

October Special Offers Now Available
Here are our October offers.
This month you will find some more jam jar offers; castalata bottles – useful for cordials and also a sloe gin making kit.
For those of you lucky enough to have some apples there is a 4ltr fruit press kit for only £99.99 and if you thinking about your Christmas shopping the Deluxe Jam Making Kit and Combined Hard and Soft Cheese Kit make great presents.
With Winter just around the corner we have also included a 500kg feed storage bin – somewhere safe to keep feed so it stays dry and the mice can’t eat it!!
Sunday 30th September is the first ever Smallholders and Growers Show at Forfar Market, Angus and it promises to be a great day out. You will find us on Stand D2 so please come and find us. We look forward to meeting some of our Scottish customers.
Many Thanks
Mark and Kate
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Ascott Smallholding Supplies Ltd | Units 21/22 | Whitewalls | Easton Grey | Malmesbury | Wiltshire | SN16 0RD
Opening Times 9am-5pm Monday to Friday

Charity Barn dance in aid of Helen Rollason Cancer Charity

Bring your friends to a
Charity Barn Dance

At
Woodham Walter Village Hall
On
6 October
From 7:30pm to 11pm

Live music by
Metric Foot Band

Tickets £7
Contact Maureen on 01621 859202

In aid of Helen Rollason Cancer Charity


Wednesday 26 September 2012

Knitting and Stitching Show, Alexandra Palace, Saturday 13th October



The Knitting and Stitching Shows are the definitive and best exhibitions for lovers of textiles in the UK and Ireland.
As the name suggests, it covers knitting and stitching but SO much more; embroidery, patchwork and quilting, felt-making, shibori dyeing, jewellery-making, card-making, embossing… the list goes on! There is so much to see and do you’ll find it hard to fit everything into one day; hundreds of exhibitors selling specialist supplies that you can’t find in the shops, galleries from leading artists and groups, plus hundreds of workshops to introduce you to lots of new subjects!

Coach & Entry ticket £21 adults, £15 Under 18's
Coach Leaves Southminster at 08.30, picks up at Morrisons Maldon at about 08.45 and Eve's Corner Danbury about 08.55.

Coach leaves 'Ally Pally' around 4pm and it normally back in Southminster by 6pm.

If you are interested in booking a place please contact Jackie Quinnell on 01621 772996.

Ticket requests need to be made by Sunday 30th September.

Essex Wildlife Trust - Blackwater Wildfood Festival - 6 October 2012 - 12-8pm



Thursday 20 September 2012

Ascott September Newsletter

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Welcome to our September NewsletterSeptember 2012
Don't forget our 8 special offers for September...
6lt Fruit Press Kit
4lt Spindle Fruit Press
12lt Spindle Fruit Press
8oz Hexagonal Jam Jars (pack of 54)
16oz Traditional Pickling Jar (pack of 48)
12oz Hexagonal Jars (pack of 42)
1lb Round Traditional Jam Jars (Pack of 56)
8ox Round Jars (pack of 48)
3 metre telescopic fruit picker
Potato Lifting Fork

Autumn is now upon us and most of the harvest here in the West Country is just about finished. Everyone should be busy making jam and chutney; and if you are lucky this year there are a few apples to be harvested to be made into juice and cider.
As you know we had a stand at the Frome Agricultural and Cheese Show this month (see picture below). We had a lovely day meeting some regular customers and some new ones too. Thank you to all those customers who supported us on the day. If you have never been to the show it’s definitely worth a visit next year.
At the end of this month we will be travelling to Scotland for the NEW Scottish Smallholders and Growers Show. This is being held at Forfar Market in Angus on Sunday 30th September. We have lots of customers in Scotland and the Highlands and very much look forward to meeting some of them.
This month we are including an easy recipe for Ricotta Cheese, perfect to have with some of the chutney you are hopefully making!
Kind Regards
Mark and Kate
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How to make simple Ricotta Cheese
You will need:

3 ltrs milk
150ml lemon juice
115ml ricotta basket mould
Muslin square
(For best results use unhomogenised milk. If you can’t find any just add 375ml of double cream to 2.265ltrs of skimmed milk. This will give you the 3ltrs of milk required for this recipe).

Place the milk into a large pan and put over a medium heat.  Using a digital thermometer increase the heat of the milk to 90 degrees centigrade and then remove from the heat.
Add the lemon juice and stir gently as the curds form and leave them to sit in their whey for 30 minutes.
Ladle the curds into a colander lined with muslin and leave to drain for 2 – 3 hours.  Transfer the drained curds, still in the muslin, to a basket mould and leave to set for another 4 hours.
This cheese will last for up to 3 days if kept in an air tight container in the fridge.

 
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