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Five jars of strawberry jam to store and a half to eat now.

And our next jam is…

20 July, 2011 by Stonehead 0 Comments

Our strawberry crop was poor this year thanks to a combination of ageing plants and poor weather, but we did have enough to make a few jars of strawberry jam to put aside for the dark days of winter. There was even a half jar of strawberry jam for immediate eating, much to the delgiht of [...]

Jams

Crofting, jam, postaweek2011, preserving, Recipes, Smallholding, strawberries

Gooseberries in syrup

30 August, 2010 by Stonehead 4 Comments

The weather has turned chilly over the past couple of days, so we’ve stepped up the harvest and started stripping all the remaining soft fruit from their bushes. It was the turn of the gooseberries today, with the Other Half and I steadfastly ignoring a swarm of wasps to pick the last 1.5kg of berries. [...]

Preserves

Food, gooseberries, preserves, preserving, Recipes

Plum and apple jam

3 October, 2008 by Stonehead 6 Comments

With the weather having taken a definite turn for the colder, the Other Half picked the last of the plums when she came home from work today and brought them inside for me to make a batch of plum and apple jam. I’ve worked out a fairly simple formula for jams like this: X grams [...]

Jams

apples, Food, Frugal Living, Sustainable Living & Self Sufficiency, Gardening, Jams, plums, preserving, Recipes

In a pickle, again

11 September, 2008 by Stonehead 8 Comments

When I lifted our crop of garlic last week, I set it out to dry in the hay shed with the intention of plaiting it for long-term storage. However, the continuation of the wet weather has meant that even with good air flow, there’s too much moisture in the air for the garlic to even begin to [...]

Pickles

Food, Frugal Living, Sustainable Living & Self Sufficiency, Gardening, garlic, pickling, preserving, Recipes

What did you do last night?

19 August, 2008 by Stonehead 18 Comments

How do you like to spend an evening? Last night, the Other Half and I spent three hours podding, blanching, cooling, skinning and finally freezing about seven gallons of broad beans (fava beans to our friends in the US). The boys and I picked the pods in the early evening, filling two three-gallon buckets to [...]

Frugal Living, Sustainable Living & Self Sufficiency

broad beans, fava beans, freezing, Frugal Living, Frugal Living, Sustainable Living & Self Sufficiency, Gardening, preserving, Simple living, Vegetables

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