British Seasonal Food - Seasonal Foods in September

Summer rolls towards its end yet seasonal food is still flooding into the shops. Seasonal foods in September still have soft fruits in abundance, but arriving alongside are plums, damsons and other autumn stone fruits including sloes. There's still a host of vegetables, including delicious ripe tomatoes, an abundance fish and seafood. It is the time of year for preserving and canning to save all the flavors of summer for the rest of the year.

Preserving Food, Jams, Jellies and Canning

Amongst the great foods on offer are:

• Apples
• Apricots
• Artichokes
• Beets
• Broad Beans
• Courgettes (Zucchini)
• Cauliflower
• Damsons
• Elderberries
• Fennel
• Most summer berries, gooseberries,red and blackcurrants, raspberries, blueberries, and particularly Blueberriesand Loganberries.
• Plums
• Cherries
  and of course
• Pears
• Strawberries
• Tomatoes
• Outdoor-grown rhubarb
• Runner Beans
• Spring Onions
• Sorrel
• Watercress
Appearing now are the first of the nuts including walnuts, cobnuts and early hazlenuts.

Fish is very good at this time of year and amongst the best right now is:

• Cod
• Crab
• Cornish Turbot and Cornish Sardines
• Scottish mussels
• Dover Sole
• Haddock
• Halibut
• Lemon Sole
• Lobster
• Mackerel

Welsh lamb is also still very good and delicious. And, this is the game season look out for:-

• Mallard Duck
• Partridge
• Wood Pigeon