I have just finished making our first batch of damson jam. I have picked our first fruit but did not realise how tall the trees we put in when we came are growing. I will need a ladder for some of the fruit.The plums have come to an end but courgettes are still cropping. The cut flowers are battered and tatty.
Damson Jam recipe -
2.5 pounds of fruit washed and destalked,
add 0.75 - 1 pint water, simmer until fruit soft,
add 3 pounds sugar (I warm it in the bottom oven a la R.),
stir till sugar dissolved then boil hard for about 10 minutes.
Test by taking off heat and putting a bit on a cold saucer (bung the saucer in the freezer a la Delia Smith),
let cool a bit and then push with finger.
Wrinkles when ready.
Pop into preheated jars and pop on hot lids (I stick them in the bottom oven on a baking tray),
label,
EAT!
(0.453592 Kilo = 1 pound)
One of the writers on Cawthwaite, the online soap, has let the map out of the bag so here it is courtesy of the ?artist, royalty free unfortunately. Find more at http://cawthwaite.com.
I have not mowed the lawn for two weeks so it is long and wet. The only decent day we were in Herefordshire with family. Whilst there we visited Canon Frome Court as I mentioned in my last blog and had a trip around the collective's kitchen garden - makes mine look like a window box.
This is one of their apple trees.
The weather forecast for this morning, last night, was for a dry day with sunny periods. It stopped raining at 3 pm!
And the rain it raineth every day, every day, all day and every day. Back to our usual weather then.
Soon I will have pick the crop off our Conference Pear tree. Here it is!
And so to the carrots which are distorted and not supermarketable, and indelicate, but taste so sweet.
Damson Jam recipe -
2.5 pounds of fruit washed and destalked,
add 0.75 - 1 pint water, simmer until fruit soft,
add 3 pounds sugar (I warm it in the bottom oven a la R.),
stir till sugar dissolved then boil hard for about 10 minutes.
Test by taking off heat and putting a bit on a cold saucer (bung the saucer in the freezer a la Delia Smith),
let cool a bit and then push with finger.
Wrinkles when ready.
Pop into preheated jars and pop on hot lids (I stick them in the bottom oven on a baking tray),
label,
EAT!
(0.453592 Kilo = 1 pound)
One of the writers on Cawthwaite, the online soap, has let the map out of the bag so here it is courtesy of the ?artist, royalty free unfortunately. Find more at http://cawthwaite.com.
I have not mowed the lawn for two weeks so it is long and wet. The only decent day we were in Herefordshire with family. Whilst there we visited Canon Frome Court as I mentioned in my last blog and had a trip around the collective's kitchen garden - makes mine look like a window box.
This is one of their apple trees.
The weather forecast for this morning, last night, was for a dry day with sunny periods. It stopped raining at 3 pm!
And the rain it raineth every day, every day, all day and every day. Back to our usual weather then.
Soon I will have pick the crop off our Conference Pear tree. Here it is!
And so to the carrots which are distorted and not supermarketable, and indelicate, but taste so sweet.
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