Ingredients: Red Cabbage Salt Spiced Vinegar Method: Cut off and discard the outer discoloured leaves from the cabbage Quarter and remove the tough inner stalk. Shred the cabbage, wash and drain well. Layer in a basin with salt between layers, ending with a layer of salt Leave for 24 hours Wash thoroughly in cold water [...]
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18 Oct
Strawberry Jam
Ingredients: 31/2 lb strawberries, hulled 3lb. Sugar Juice of two lemons if desired Yield 5lb Place strawberries and sugar in a pan and heat slowly to dissolve sugar. If berries are small and hard, simmer them until soft before adding sugar. Add the pectin stock and boil fast to setting point. Allow to cool until [...]
18 Oct
Blackcurrant Jam
Ingredients: 2 lb. Black-currants 3lb. Sugar 1/2 pt. Water Yield 5 lb Wash and stem the fruit and place in pan with water. Simmer until soft and considerably reduced this may take several hours. Stir the pulp as it thickens to prevent burning. Add the sugar, stir and bring to the boil, continue boiling rapidly [...]
18 Oct
Blackberry Jam
Ingredients 3 lb blackberries 3lb. Sugar 2 tablespoons lemon juice or ¼ pt. Apple juice or ½ level teaspoon spoon of citric acid or tartaric acid. Yield 5lb Place the blackberries with about a quarter of a tumbler of water and the acid or lemon juice into a preserving pan. Simmer until fruit is cooked [...]
18 Oct
Blackberry & Apple Jam
Ingredients 2 lb. blackberries 3 lb. Sugar 3/4lb. of cooking apples 1/4pt water Yield 5lb Place the blackberries in a pan with a very little water and stew over a low flame until tender. Add the sliced apples and cook until soft. Stir in the sugar and boil fast until set.
18 Oct
Elderflower Cordial
Ingredients: 20 heads of elderflower 1.5kg of fair trade granulated sugar 1.2 litres of water 1 unwaxed lemon 75 grams of citric acid May / June By end of May and beginning of June the first signs of summer are blossoming in the hedges in the elder tree flowers. It is best to use the [...]
