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The Preserver's Year
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Its a beautiful day and very warm here - perfect for line-drying washing
and its lovely to see the buds breaking on shrubs in the garden.
Looking ahead to May - I want to harvest some elderflowers to make elderflower cordial. I used to buy this from the 'approved-foods-type' farm shop at 4 bottles for £1 but they have sold out .... so I priced it up in the supermarket :eek: what a shocker!!
Living amidst lanes lined with elderberry bushes, I can pick the main ingredient for freeso I would like to make some for summer and if possible to keep for later in the year. From what I have read, it can be given a long shelf life by sterilising the bottles in a water bath so I'm hunting round for short-ish bottles that will fit in my stock pot. I am also going to try freezing it in the chest freezer in small plastic bottles.
Love to hear if anyone has a favourite recipe for this or experience in making elderflower champagne:heartpuls The best things in life aren't things :heartpuls
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Hi CHARLIES AUNT I make elderflower cordial and champagne every year, it's so easy. My preferred method for long term storage of the cordial is plastic bottles in the freezer, it keeps indefinately but you have to use it up within about 6 weeks when it's defrosted. I think we were nattering about it further back in this thread last year so the recipes will be there . If you cant find them for any reason I'll happily post recipes and methods again if that would help, Lyn xxx.0
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Charlies Aunt re your post 1580
- I've just used crystallised ginger in marmalade - excellent.
It's easy to preserve chopped up ginger root in sherry, then/or prepare as you would for choc. orange peel prep i.e.boiling in water ,then in a hefty sugar/water syrup.
http://www.food.com/recipe/jeans-preserved-root-ginger-128838
http://www.ehow.com/how_4548431_make-preserved-ginger.html
re: elderflower everything, Mrs L. is right. Green screwtop plastic bottles[everyone else's discards]are what you're after.
In past years we've reinforced following HFW's recette at discussion time, BUT with the vital correction in the recipe, for which Hugh has apologised many a zillion times over.
All correct here:
http://www.channel4.com/4food/recipes/chefs/hugh-fearnley-whittingstall/elderflower-champagne-recipe
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Thank you so much for your replies -really looking forward to giving it a go.:heartpuls The best things in life aren't things :heartpuls
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Blackcurrant & Rhubarb jam, has anyone tried this?
I have found a recipe for this jam in one of my old kitchen books (1866) and I'll give it a try sometime this year but I just wondered if anyone had made it and might have some tips0 -
Torbrex, No I haven't tried that.
A couple of weeks ago I made Mrs LW rhubarb jam with lemon, lime and orange juice and it was beautiful. I also made rhubarb and strawberry jam with a few strawberries past their best and that was delicious as well.
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I make Rhubarb with pineapple every year and I love it (probably too much
) but I just spotted this recipe with blackcurrant and as I grow both in my garden it will be easy for me to give it a try
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Just wondering - who else uses an All-American canner? I know somebody on MSE's got one the same as ours but I can't remember who it is
Last year was our first year with it, and we're still eating the toms, runner beans and French beans. Wondering what else to bottle from this year's veg crop ...We're all doomed0 -
I make alcoholic elderflower cordial - put about 15 elderflower heads in a 1L jar, add the peel of a lemon, a spoon of juice from the lemon, 5 tablespoons of sugar, and a 1L bottle of vodka. Shake well, leave for 4 weeks, strain, and enjoy with some tonic water or lemonade! Keeps forever too.0
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Just wondering - who else uses an All-American canner? I know somebody on MSE's got one the same as ours but I can't remember who it is
Last year was our first year with it, and we're still eating the toms, runner beans and French beans. Wondering what else to bottle from this year's veg crop ...
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