Edible Xmas gifts that can be made well in advance.....

alfieroux

:rotfl:Mum2one - Please come out of the corner, it is my name not your fault that led to the confusion!:rotfl:

Chilli recipe as promised:

500g sweetcorn (2x no frills tins!)
2 red chillies
1 red pepper
2-3 stick celery
175g granulated sugar
Juice of 1 lemon squeezed
300ml bottle of white wine vinegar
1 tsp mustard powder
"2 tbsp salt:mad:"

I drain and rinse the corn and put in pan, put all other veg in blender until well blitzed and add to pan. Put everything else into the pan except the salt. Put on a low heat until sugar dissolved, bring to boil and simmer for 20 mins (this bit smells gorgeous).

Recipe then says to add the salt and simmer until dissolved but I am going to make my next batch in the week without any salt and see what happens. Pot into hot sterilized jars and label. I am hoping for a sweeter flavour this time - I fancy this on hotdogs and burgers etc.

Will also be used for turkey and pickles on Boxing Day so everyone knows what their Christmas presents taste like, for when they get home. Thinking of doing pickle hampers and jam hampers seperatley.

Can also be made with green chillies and green peppers.

Hope this helps
Alfie

jane130

can I join , having put off homemade hamper goddies last year i decided to go for it this year , I ordered new jars off of lakeland earlier in the week and after taking my 6 year old blackberry picking today we now have 2kg of blackberrys boiling away on the stove with a few apples from the fruit bowl that were about to go over - i am saving the apples from our tree for chutney .

do you think it will be ok to get to the seiving stage and them wait until later ( this evening or tomorrow ) to add the sugar - only the family are starting to ask about dinner LOL

Anglea

Welcome Jane 130 :j

I don't know the answer to your jam making question as I always use a quick method from the Country Kitchen magazine.

Gemmy_2

Whilst walking the dog this afternoon i've seen litterly thousends of untouched blackberries.

Personally i hate them.. but i know quite a few family members who love them and wouldn't mind recieving a present with blackberries in.
I am a complete virgin at making edible gifts and could really do with some help if i could please.

Anyone know any really super easy receipies that have blackberries in?

tartantotty

lazysheep wrote: »

I've had a quick google and people seem to have success with frozen fruit (blackberries/raspberries) so I don't see why it shouldn't work for you

Oooh thank you for that! I will get some rasps and put them in the freezer! Our brambles up here are still green and little, probaly due to the horrible summer we have had, but had a couple of nice days so hopefully that will start things off!

And Angela, thanks for the welcome!

elysia2003

Hello everyone.

I know a few of you - hiya!

I've dragged OH and DD2 off blackberry picking this afternoon. OH is just clearing away from dinner (got him well trained) and then we're making jam. I only have 4 jars as he recycled the first lot I was saving. :mad: It'll just be our test run to see how it turns out.

Thanks to everyone who's posted recipes. I'll work my way through them. I can't wait! :beer:

SoozyJ22

rik1978 wrote: »

the cherry tree in our garden is covered in bright red fruits (first time since we moved here 4 years ago) I would love to make cherry jam and cherry brandy with these. my OH tasted one of them and it was bitter so not sure if they are actually edible, sems a shame to let them all go to the birds, the tree is absolutely covered!!

I've just made jam for the first time with some very sour cherries from my friend's garden. By the time you've added all the sugar they've lost the horrible sourness and it tastes really good.

Anglea

http://www.vegbox-recipes.co.uk/recipes/blackberry-recipe-5.php

Blackberry tea, syrups, cakes, jams etc

Gemmy_2

Anglea wrote: »

http://www.vegbox-recipes.co.uk/recipes/blackberry-recipe-5.php

Blackberry tea, syrups, cakes, jams etc

Thank you xD

SmlSave

Hi everyone

Hope you all had a good weekend, sounds like a lot of you were busy!

I had a kilo of plum 'juice' go up in smoke Saturday night I had the mushy plums draining into a glass bowl which was sat on the hob, one of my friends accidently brushed pass the cooker and managed to turn all the hobs on, which I didn't notice till I came home that night at 12:30 to a house full of smoke and the fire alarm going off! Thankfully there's no major damage but I'm hereby banning all of my friends from the kitchen unless they're supervised!

Went out picking yesterday and managed to get another load of plums to replace those lost - had to hang from the branches like a monkey though

Manged to get 800g balckberries and 700g elderberries too

There's soo much I want to make! The presevers book I 'borrowed' from my Mum is brill