Work your magic with unripe fruit from the garden

Valerie O’Connor works herself into a pickle over unripe fruit while turning the best of the crop into passata.

My Mum arrived up to my house the other day with a huge tub of green tomatoes, harvested by my Dad, who got a bumper crop this year.

I sniffed to myself as I wondered what use they would be to me — but over the following days little beauties of yellow baby plum, and black cherry started to make themselves stand out from the crowd and they transformed into a big bowl of delicious treats.