The Marchmont pantry box
Six jars, made in one kitchen, in batches of about ninety. When a batch is gone it is gone until the fruit comes round again.
What is in it
Two jams, two marmalades and two chutneys, chosen by what was worth picking that month rather than by a fixed list.
How it is made
Open pan, small batch, no pectin and no concentrate. It is slower and it is the whole reason the set is worth eating.
How it arrives
Straw-lined, taped, and posted on a Tuesday. Add a note at checkout and it is written by hand, not printed.
It is not scarcity marketing, it is the size of the pan
One person, one range, one afternoon per variety. We could make more of it by making it differently, and then it would be a different thing.
£38
six jars, posted, including the note
What that covers
Enough that you can actually cook with one rather than ration it.
UK mainland, tracked, packed to survive a letterbox that was not designed for glass.
If you are sending it on. Leave it blank and we leave it out.
Send a photograph, we post another. No form, no returns label.
Once
A single box
One box, once. Most people start here and quite a lot of people stay here, which is fine.
Seasonally
£136 for the year — one box each season, posted when the batch is made. Cancel before any box ships and you are charged for what has already arrived, nothing else.
Both about the same thing, really
How long does an open jar keep?
Four to six weeks in the fridge. There is no preservative in it beyond sugar and the fruit itself, which is the trade for how it tastes.
Can I choose what is in the box?
No. The box is what the batch was, and a pick-your-own version would mean holding stock of everything, which means making it differently.
Before you decide
Worth knowing either way, and it will not suit everyone.
There is no marmalade in August. If you want a fixed list all year, this is the wrong box.
Preserves are. We have not reduced the sugar to make a health claim we would then have to defend.
Straw, tape and a box that has been through the post enough times for us to have stopped worrying about it.
Ninety a batch. When they are gone the page says so rather than taking the order anyway.
The list is the only way to know a batch has opened.
One last one
Is there a shop I can just buy from?
Not between batches, no — and a permanently open shop with nothing in it is worse than a closed one.
So the list is the shop
It opens for about four days each time and then it closes.
Two emails a season. Nothing between them.
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