THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

Cappella

GreyQueen said:

I reckon feral fruits are probably less toxic than many professionally cultivated ones, frankly, but you can enjoy grossing out some folk by eating things off trees and bushes, 'cos real food only comes from supermarkets, dinnit?

This is indeed true. I once accidentally freaked out two fellow allotmenteers by absent mindedly picking and eating fuchsia berries whilst talking to them (the people, not the berries). :rotfl:

Isn't it curious that in your area more people are berrying and that here the opposite seems to be the case though. I wonder why that is?

DawnW

mardatha wrote: »

My granny used to make what she called "jeely". It was runny jam. Fuddle I add lemon juice and that makes the jam set nice and firm.

And if by chance it doesn't, just tip the lot back into the pan and boil it up again

Karmacat

I have to say about jam - when I was an au pair, in a posh village outside Marseille about a million years ago, it was very common to just have a few teaspoonsful of jam as a "dessert". And nor did they buy pain au chocolat - they grabbed hold of half a baguette and stuck a few squares of chocolate in

DigForVictory

GreyQueen wrote: »

Including from family groups on bicycles, with the youngsters being taught how to pick without getting pranged, just as I was back in the day. A sight to warm the cockles of my cold and flinty heart.

Whereas I'd send 'em in low & barely covered and go long on the iodine later, just to ensure they appreciated their work & loved the taste of effort. (Notice how the involved child eats up more willingly? I taught the lads to appreciate pain as a spice. They've got a lot cannier about dressing whilst still wolfing jam in slabs - we've apple trees.)

That cockles line will make another lovely T shirt, for those as have the nerve to wear it...

GreyQueen

Cappella wrote: »

GreyQueen said:


This is indeed true. I once accidentally freaked out two fellow allotmenteers by absent mindedly picking and eating fuchsia berries whilst talking to them (the people, not the berries). :rotfl:

Isn't it curious that in your area more people are berrying and that here the opposite seems to be the case though. I wonder why that is?

Mine is university city with a lot of folks who stay on afterwards but cannot get professional work. So, the upshot is people who are well-educated, leftish, green(ish), enviro-conscious and as poor as church mice. Betcha anything you like they have a copy of Food for Free on their upcycled bookshelves, too.:rotfl:


Full disclousre; this is my very own demographic so my mockery is necessarily gentle and is also self-mockery. Even the lotties are pretty much middle-clarse pastime, with the sons and grandsons of the working-class Old Boys having no interest in gardening whatsoever. Being, as one of the Old Boys says with infinite scorn of his own adult grandsons, effing layabouts.

[Deleted User]

mardatha wrote: »

I bet they didn't half miss it in wartime when they had none.

Actually, for most of the war jam was available, albeit on ration.

The usual ration was a 1lb jar per week.

Bread and jam is mentioned in the movie The Dambusters.

ancientofdays

Similar demographic for me GQ in a way, though I was always able to get professional work until retirement a few weeks back.

Karmaqueen, I didn't know that you could actually buy pain au chocolat at one time, in France we used to just stick chocolate in our baguettes.

Locally I think I am possibly the only blackberry picker. I don't like them but pick a couple of handfuls for family to add to their fruit after dinner. I only pick quite high up as the local dogs are walked past the bushes and wee on the lower branches. I'm not making jam at present as in the past I've made pounds and pounds of it and just handed it out to friends as we don't really eat it. I woukd make crab apple jelly but you have to go a long way to find a crabby tree that isn't someone's tree. My one died after 20 years.

Danlad99

Does anyone know when you can post links as a new member within your post, I've a parking issue and can't post the links

happydays89

Danlad99 wrote: »

Does anyone know when you can post links as a new member within your post, I've a parking issue and can't post the links

Hi,I am not sure, but there is a parking thread where you might find the answer to your parking issue,there is a search thread which might help.

[Deleted User]

BOB sadly you've got a fact wrong the rationing allowance in WW2 for jam was 1 1lb jar per person every month and it's around that time when people started giving up sugar in their tea to save the sugar allowance for making jam in the summer. Some years there was an extra pound and a half of sugar given on ration purely for jam making.