Get a grip woman!

Suffolk_lass

Rubbish from the BS after many attempts to get the RS proceeds to the right account. All set up (including phone calls) ignored and they moved it into a second new rubbish interest rate account. No real damage as this morning I withdrew to the original rubbish rate account, that does have a working link to my bank account, so £3000 moved (phew!) and the balance left to fester so I do get the existing customer offers of the occasional decent rate.

I see @Cheery_Daff's diary disappearing into the distance as I keep failing to make headway on catching up. I now know about the promotion and congratulations for that. I can see why an extra several pages appeared then. Many more since and still 13 pages (127) posts behind!!

I might take a pic of my shelf of bottled stuff and post here to reassure @themadvix that floating fruit with a syrup layer at the bottom is normal

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Larder - taken today, not very organised. The wine racks have several empty bottles and kilner jars in (two deep) so not all wine... (defensive? Moi?). As well as HM preserves and bottled fruit there are things I bought when on offer, so biscuits, ice cream cornets and ginger cake (OOD) as well as the tins. The sacks you can see are both onions, one lot our neighbour gleaned from the harvested field, the other lot we grew. There is another sack of (homegrown) potatoes hanging off the other end of the out of sight rack on the left. You can just see the edge of a couple of sweet jars of flour and front right that pan is on top of two 10l flour containers (I bought a sack!)

I think I may have a fail on one of the greengage jars (the one next to the big pan and pressure cooker) but it may be because I used one of those plastic spring things to keep the fruit in the syrup.

Humdinger1

@Suffolk_lass it's an Aladdin's cave! I for one would far rather see preserves and stores than jewels, especially at the moment.  Simply wonderful! Onwards and upwards love Humdinger xx 

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Humdinger1 said:

@Suffolk_lass it's an Aladdin's cave! I for one would far rather see preserves and stores than jewels, especially at the moment.  Simply wonderful! Onwards and upwards love Humdinger xx 

Thank you sweetie. I need to be careful not to hoard. Goodness knows where the homegrown squahes and apples will get stored this year!

themadvix

I have major pantry envy now SL! 😮 That is a beautiful place! My stores (bought and homemade are secreted variously in cupboard in little bedroom (alongside gifts), on bookcase in little bedroom (where there are no books, but some files), in under bed storage in my office-cu m-spare-bedroom and in the tops of kitchen cupboards where I can’t see! Better long-term storage and inventory is definitely something I need!

Thanks for the reassurance about floating fruit - I can see more bottling in my day today too as it’s plum picking day.

Suffolk_lass

We built it! The house has a central chimney (should not have as the vernacular style here is end chimney) anyway, we had a recess in both the dining and sitting rooms so we pinched a bit from the sitting room (leaving the depth of a bookcase) and put doors on the other end, then DH built the shelves you can see from reclaimed floorboards and a marble hearth. There's an old Ikea wire shelving unit on the left wall - I may show more...

foxgloves

Lovely pantry, @Suffolk_lass. Mine is also full of tasty jars laid down for winter & beyond. I still haven't braved bottling. I read up.on.how to bottle pulped tomatoes but haven't tried it as have so far frozen surplus tomato crop as roasted pasta sauce & made 2 types of chutney. I think I will try making a few jars of bottled pears though, as Mr F, who likes tinned fruit sometimes as a change from yoghurts, etc, says it has really increased in price & he says he liked the pear slices poached with a pinch of cinnamon which I used to make for freezing.
I honestly don't know why, as someone who has been doing preserving for a good few decades, I seem to think I'll end up poisoning myself with incorrectly done bottling! Time to have a go.
F x

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The doors



Empty flour sacks (used to store squashes) under the racks on the left, and two empty bee syrup containers in the foreground. Half used oats and Granola with pegs on top and subscription jars of coffee, pepperdew peppers and water filters are on the top shelf currently. Enough Malden Sea Salt for a couple of years!

greent

Love the pantry - my idea of heaven! Although all the home preserving is fab,  my favourite thing in there is the ginger cake - they are my guilty secret and I can't buy them very often as I can easily eat a whole one in one go.... 😋 ☺

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greent said:

Love the pantry - my idea of heaven! Although all the home preserving is fab,  my favourite thing in there is the ginger cake - they are my guilty secret and I can't buy them very often as I can easily eat a whole one in one go.... 😋 ☺

How do you like them? we have them - a chunk with a cup of tea, warmed with custard or warmed with ice cream as a dessert!!