Sunday, June 05, 2011

Preserving efforts 2010

  • 3-berry jam
  • Apple jelly
  • Apple juice (I just found two litre jars of juice that I had shoved in the back of a cupboard that normally doesn't have anything food related in it - very annoyed because one is showing signs of a slightly slimy film on top so I assume the pastuerisation that occurs with the steam juicing still isn't enough to preserve for more than a few weeks.  On the other hand, it might be turning into a vinegar mother so I'll have to look up a bit more about that before throwing it away)
  • Apple sauce
  • Dried apples
  • Bread and butter pickles (I really dislike cucumber, one of the foulest tasting vegetables there is in my opinion so avoiding it during the current e-coli outbreak is no hardship - however the pickles I made last year to use up a glut from the garden went down very well with the people there so I will probably make lots of these again in the future to use as gifts and to bring to potluck type dinners)
  • Broad beans (frozen)
  • Cherry jam (and now I know there's a difference between sweet cherries for eating and sour cherries for making jam with - not liking and therefore never eating cherries, how was I supposed to know?)
  • Chutney (made one lot and it burned - thought I had rescued most of it on time but opening a jar several months later led to a tasty chutney with a horribly sulphurous aftertaste)
  • Redcurrants (dried)
  • Dilly beans
  • Kasundi (made at the request of friends - far too oily for my tastes but they seem to think it tasted the way it should)
  • Peach, nectarine and apple jam 
  • Peas (frozen)
  • Raspberry jam
  • Dried strawberries
  • Frozen strawberries
  • Strawberry jam
  • Bottled tomatoes
  • Dried tomatoes
  • Dried bananas