Nigel Slater’s grape and plum recipes

Early autumn is the time to roast dark sweet muscat grapes and the season’s gorgeous plums before they disappearI put a bunch of grapes in the oven to roast, the dark, sweet muscat variety you only find in late summer and autumn. The bunch emerged, looking like it had spent time in a flower press, a thin layer of sticky syrup in the roasting tin. We ate the purple-black fruit, picking them from the stalk with sticky fingers, stirring their juices into iced rice pudding, thick with cream an