Recipe: Strawberry and Raspberry jelly

Ingredients
500g fresh picked raspberries
500g Home grown Strawberries
180g sugar
1 lemon, zest
2 star anise
4 sprigs mint
2 vanilla pods
250g water

Method
Place all of the ingredients in a bowl and cover with cling film
Place the bowl over a hot water bath and allow the juices to extract from the berries
Pass the mix through a cloth, all you require is the liquid
Measure out the liquid, you will require 500ml, add 3 leaves of softened gelatine
Pour the liquid into service glasses and set in the fridge over night.

I like to serve the jelly with lemon Thyme custard, fresh cut berries and pistachio crumble.

Recipe: Raspberry Bavarois

Ingredients
800g Raspberries
(during the summer we put freshly picked berries in the freezer, you can defrost and use these for the dessert)
10 leaves gelatine
150g sugar
500ml cream half whipped
1 mix Italian meringue

Method
Put the raspberries and the juice in a blender and blitz.
Pass through a fine sieve
Place the puree and sugar in a pan and warm to blood heat.
Add the soaked gelatine and stir until desolved
Remove from the heat and allow to cool
When the mix has cooled carefully fold in the halfed whipped cream and the italian meringue, place in moulds and chill