Madron Hedgerow Relish to go with your Michaelmas Goose

I've been mooching round Madron again and all the fruit in this recipe is from Madron hedgerows - thank you St Maddern.

Hedgerow relish

lb tart green apples

12 oz onions finely chopped

2lb - 3lb of hedgerow fruit - blackberries, sloes, damsons, elderberries

1 pint vinegar - any sort except malt

1tsp ground allspice

1tsp ground cinnamon

2 tablespoons coarse salt

6 cloves

6 peppercorns

1lb jam sugar

Put all the fruit and the flavourings in a heavy bottomed pan with the vinegar and bring to the boil. Simmer for 15 minutes. Blitz the mixture with a stick blender if you have one, or a food processor - this is to make the next bit easier. Rub it all through a fine sieve until you have a seed free puree. Return to the pan and add the sugar, boil for 25 minutes until you have a thick jammy puree - keep stirring so it doesn't stick. Bottle into warm jars and keep for a couple of weeks before using.

'Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,

Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;

Conspiring with him how to load and bless

With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;

To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees,

And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;

To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells

With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,

And still more, later flowers for the bees,

Until they think warm days will never cease,

For Summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells.'

From 'To Autumn' by John Keats (1795-1821)