The surprise arrival of some free figs saw us learning a new jam recipe and, as a thanks to our neighbours, we shared the result with them.
Posts tagged as:
Posts tagged as:
Loading ...
Our home-made cheese is maturing. Read more...
We added three new hens to our flock. Read more...
We're baking sourdough bread. Read more...
We're knitting a woolly blanket.
Read more...
Last weekend we made this year’s batch of crab apple jelly, and this weekend we tried the first of it on some slices of toast. The results were very tasty.
We’re still using up our bumper crop of apples, today combining them with another great hedgerow scavenger fruit, blackberries, to make a delicious breakfast jelly.
We’ve discovered Ma Made, the ultimate cheat’s marmalade. Made by Hartleys, who know a thing or two about jam, it’s the only real way you can skip the first messy stage without employing lowly-paid staff of your own.
A bit of a disaster in the kitchen as, half way through making jam, the bag of fruit pulp falls off the support and into the juice. The mess is almost unbelievable.
Crabapple jelly is a classic autumn jam. It’s easy to make and requires very few ingredients – just crabapples, sugar and water.