Seasonal Food For September

Cheeses - Cheshire farmhouse, Double Gloucester.

Eggs - Bantam eggs, pheasant eggs.

Fish - Black bream, brown trout, cod, Dover sole, eels, herring, John Dory, Lemon Sole, mackeral, pilchards, plaice, sardines, sea bass, sea trout, sprouts, turbot.

Flowers - Elderflowers

Fruit - Apples, beef tomatoes, blackberries, blackcurrants, blueberries, bullaces, crab apples, damsons, elderberries, figs, grapes, greengages, James Grieve apples, loganberries, mirabelles, nectarines, peaches, pears, plum tomatoes, plums, raspberries (second crop), redcurrants, sloes, strawberries (second crop), tomatoes, Victoria plums, Williams pears, Worcester Pearmain apples.

Game - Grouse, guinea fowl, partridge, rabbit, venison, wood pigeon.

Herbs - Basil, dandelion, garlic, sorrell, wild rocket.

Meat - Autumn lamb

Nuts - Chestnuts, cobnuts, walnuts.

Poultry - Duck, goose, wild duck, wood pigeon.

Shellfish - Brown crab, clams, mussels, native oysters, prawns.

Vegetables - Artichoke, aubergines, beetroot, broad beans, broccoli, cabbages, carrots, cauliflower, celery, ceps mushrooms, chanterelle mushrooms, chard, chillies, courgettes, cucumber, early potatoes, endive, fennel, french beans, girolle mushrooms, garlic, globe artichokes, kale, leeks, lettuce, marrow, new potatoes, okra, onions, parsnip, peas, peppers, pumpkin, runner beans, salad leaves, salad onions (scallions/spring onions, shallots, spinach, squash, swede, sweetcorn, turnips, watercress, wild mushrooms.