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*cough, splutter, sniffle*
Aug. 10th, 2010 01:25 pmI still can't shake this wretched cold, and now it's settled in my chest and I can't stop coughing :( I've been trying to sew some, and succeeding in a small way. Yesterday and today though I've been preserving!
Our next door neighbours brought us some of their home grown raspberries, so yesterday I made cordial with the fruit (yummy!!), and then turned the pulp, which would usually go into the bin, into some 'black butter' and some fruit cheese, basically both like jam, but thicker and more solid. The butter is an 18thC nursery food, using the leftovers from making jelly for the dinning room to feed the children and servants! Fruit cheese is even thicker and set in molds so you can turn it out to serve on a cheese board (lots of people have heard of membrillo, a quince cheese from Spain, this is the same idea,) it's another very old recipe again using the leftover pulp. Quite green really :)
we also had a punnet of strawberries in the fridge form the supermarket. I made them into cordial too, needless to say it didn't make much! But the pulp was sitting there this morning, saying 'I'm sure I could be useful for something!' ... But still being in the cordial making mood I turned all the sad old lemons in the fridge into lemon syrup for lemonaid, and I had such a big saucepan full I decanted a few big ladlefulls into the strawberry saucepan to see if the smears of red round the edges would make it a nice pink lemonaid colour. It did, but it wasn't very pink, (not pink drink worthy anyway!!) so I dumped the jelly-bag full of strawberry pulp into the syrup and left it to steep like a giant Psychedelic tea bag while I bottled the lemon syrup. The strawberry pulp made the pink lemonaid a fabulous pink colour, and it now tastes of strawberry too! So I think next time I have some stawrberries sitting in the fridge that need using, I'll make strawberry lemonaid with them instead of just cordial, it'll go further!!
Well, I suppose I've procrastinated enough for one day, I better get to swewing I suppose!
Our next door neighbours brought us some of their home grown raspberries, so yesterday I made cordial with the fruit (yummy!!), and then turned the pulp, which would usually go into the bin, into some 'black butter' and some fruit cheese, basically both like jam, but thicker and more solid. The butter is an 18thC nursery food, using the leftovers from making jelly for the dinning room to feed the children and servants! Fruit cheese is even thicker and set in molds so you can turn it out to serve on a cheese board (lots of people have heard of membrillo, a quince cheese from Spain, this is the same idea,) it's another very old recipe again using the leftover pulp. Quite green really :)
we also had a punnet of strawberries in the fridge form the supermarket. I made them into cordial too, needless to say it didn't make much! But the pulp was sitting there this morning, saying 'I'm sure I could be useful for something!' ... But still being in the cordial making mood I turned all the sad old lemons in the fridge into lemon syrup for lemonaid, and I had such a big saucepan full I decanted a few big ladlefulls into the strawberry saucepan to see if the smears of red round the edges would make it a nice pink lemonaid colour. It did, but it wasn't very pink, (not pink drink worthy anyway!!) so I dumped the jelly-bag full of strawberry pulp into the syrup and left it to steep like a giant Psychedelic tea bag while I bottled the lemon syrup. The strawberry pulp made the pink lemonaid a fabulous pink colour, and it now tastes of strawberry too! So I think next time I have some stawrberries sitting in the fridge that need using, I'll make strawberry lemonaid with them instead of just cordial, it'll go further!!
Well, I suppose I've procrastinated enough for one day, I better get to swewing I suppose!
