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

SmlSave

After reading several posts here yesterday I spent the evening with my nose in my Nigella christmas book. I planned to make chilli jelly so seeing this thread reminded me.

Have you made the chilli jelly yet hogshead? I made it last year and its lovely

Loving your signature Giggle

Made mirabella (smal yellow plums) jelly this wekend which turned out perfect Am well chuffed.

Have got cucumber pickle to make tonight and really want to make some courgette pickle but I've run out of jars

Anglea

Giggle wrote: »

Yeah its a typo sorry was in a rush to go out lol

I thought it was some kind of backing to the sweet bouquets

Smlsave, I've never had a jelly like you made, sounds good.

hogshead

SmlSave wrote: »

Have you made the chilli jelly yet hogshead? I made it last year and its lovely

Not made it yet but def will. Nigella notes it can be made about a month in advance, stored for 12 & once opened kept in fridge for 1 month ( off top of my head as not sat with said book )

Looked at a few other options too as FIL loves cheese so def a worthwhile pressie to make preserves & sloe gin for him.

lizimuffin

Hi there, sorry to jump onto this thread. I'm a lurker and gradually getting into this posting lark! Your ideas sound absolutely gorgeous, I wanted to put my idea out there and see what you guys think.

I've already made 6 jars of crab apple jelly and 5 small jars of rosehip syrup....I was thinking of making up a 'treat breakfast tray' kinda thing....homemade jelly for toast, rosehip syrup for museli/porridge, some homemde soda bread (for toast!) and get some 'posh' tea bags and coffee sachets. Think I would wrap up all this in cellophane with a little tray (from the £1 shop).

As you can probably tell I'm completely skint! I'm a full time carer for hubby so treying to do something nice for as little money as possible, but with lots of love in it:o

Please can you give me some feedback? Would be muchly appriciated.

jem1276

lizimuffin wrote: »

Hi there, sorry to jump onto this thread. I'm a lurker and gradually getting into this posting lark! Your ideas sound absolutely gorgeous, I wanted to put my idea out there and see what you guys think.

I've already made 6 jars of crab apple jelly and 5 small jars of rosehip syrup....I was thinking of making up a 'treat breakfast tray' kinda thing....homemade jelly for toast, rosehip syrup for museli/porridge, some homemde soda bread (for toast!) and get some 'posh' tea bags and coffee sachets. Think I would wrap up all this in cellophane with a little tray (from the £1 shop).

As you can probably tell I'm completely skint! I'm a full time carer for hubby so treying to do something nice for as little money as possible, but with lots of love in it:o

Please can you give me some feedback? Would be muchly appriciated.

Sounds lovely. I would love to receive something like that

SmlSave

Not made it yet but def will. Nigella notes it can be made about a month in advance, stored for 12 & once opened kept in fridge for 1 month ( off top of my head as not sat with said book )

Mines been sat in the fridge for 8 months now and still tates fine I made soo much it's taking a while to get through!

I've already made 6 jars of crab apple jelly and 5 small jars of rosehip syrup....I was thinking of making up a 'treat breakfast tray' kinda thing....homemade jelly for toast, rosehip syrup for museli/porridge, some homemde soda bread (for toast!) and get some 'posh' tea bags and coffee sachets. Think I would wrap up all this in cellophane with a little tray (from the £1 shop).

Oh this sounds lovely lizi Are you going to freeze the sodabread as it doesn't keep that well?

Made the cucumber pickle last night - the whole house smells of vinegar!

beachlou

Hello everyone,

After reading the whole thread, I'm determined to make some chutneys for Xmas, either as presents or to take to my Mum's house on Xmas day. I want to make them now as I'm due my first baby towards the end of Oct and want to get everything done now, whilst I have time on my hands. I found a lovely Christmas chutney on the Good Food website, so going to give that one a go as well as classic ones like apple and onion. My Mum loves beetroot so will try and beetroot and orange one.

Need to go shopping for some jars now! How does everyone decorate their jars? Are there any nice sticky labels that you can buy cheaply?

Giggle

I just got back from blackberry picking with my grandson and his friend we did get a lot of blackberries which is good as my friend as said if i pick them she will make them into jam so im happy with that

SmlSave

Need to go shopping for some jars now! How does everyone decorate their jars? Are there any nice sticky labels that you can buy cheaply?

Mine are still undecorated atm but I have a black and a white glass pen that I'm planning to decorate the jars with flowers etc and some nice fabric to put over the lid.

Enjoy your blackberry jam Giggle

fly_dragon_fly

i have made 36 jars of different jams so far going to buy another 36 tomorrow and make more