Preserves book

starjumper

I was lucky enough to get the River Cottage Preserves Book in Septemer (on a visit to the cottage) and I've made some really excellent things from it, the Haw Sauce was particularly excellent.

canidothis

Has anyone made the vegetable stock mix from this book? I really fancy making it for my dad and just wondered how it turns out.

EagerLearner

I made some seville marmalade... it filled 6 jars and left some left over in pan. The stuff in the pan looks like normal marmalade, but what's in the jars is all runny... help? I put the marmalade in the jars when it was hot and the jars were hot too as per the recipe in River Cottage book...

thriftlady_2

You'll probably find it firms up once cold

Gigervamp

I also got the River Cottage preserves book last year and made the picallilli. I gave a jar to my FIL who said he thought it was delicious, much better than some other homemade and store bought ones!

EagerLearner

thriftlady wrote: »

You'll probably find it firms up once cold

Hi thriftlady - thing is I made this a week ago and they're all still runny inside the jars... Even if I opened a jar I think the whole batch is lost now... unless I have runny marmalade on toast which I guess I will have alot of :eek:

Gigervamp

I think you can re-boil it.

mrssnowy_2

ginvzt wrote: »

Is it this one you have by any chance? this one is by different author, so it could be different recipes...

Do try Alans marmalade,saved peel ,dead easy-cheap

Patchwork_Quilt

You can reboil it. It does mean boiling/washing/sterilising all over again though. Why not make a marmalade sponge pud with some of it? Use it as a glaze? Put it in a cake? Pour it on ice-cream? Maybe jam sugar next time? Or is that cheating? Actually, I put some apple juice in my last batch of marmalade, which I suppose is the same thing. It got eaten, anyway.

Good luck

EagerLearner

Hi all thanks for the tip - I never did get it to 'crinkle' - as far as I know I followed the recipe 100% but the only marmalade that turned out ok was the one that I left to cool at the bottom of the pan (leftovers).

If I do empty them all into the pan again to retry, do you have any tips on what I can do / not do this time around to avoid it happening again? ie: how long would I boil it for, what am I looking for, can I let it *all* cool down properly, then place into hot sterilised jars?