Adventures in cookery
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lizwilliams(This is one for the cooks and the gardeners. Ignore if you don't give a toss).
Following an attempt last week to produce gooseberry jelly*, I've now done some more with the big, pale golden-green gooseberries that we've got in the garden right now. It seems to be setting but is a bit runny. If I can get some mackerel at the market tomorrow, I'm going to do a gooseberry sauce with it: this is a traditional southern English thing.
I also just picked a cucumber. We have tomatoes like little green bullets, but they're ripening; a lot of raspberries and blackcurrants, a magnificent eggplant which hasn't produced anything yet but is flowering, and beans, peas, chard, potatoes, and lettuces. Zucchini have flowered and there is a little one on the way.
Onions: hmmmm. Jury is out.
* Not that I'd ever admit to failure, but if anyone likes vaguely fruit-flavoured toffee and has a really big hammer, then email me. You get a free glass jar, which you'll be able to work out your tensions on by shattering it.
Following an attempt last week to produce gooseberry jelly*, I've now done some more with the big, pale golden-green gooseberries that we've got in the garden right now. It seems to be setting but is a bit runny. If I can get some mackerel at the market tomorrow, I'm going to do a gooseberry sauce with it: this is a traditional southern English thing.
I also just picked a cucumber. We have tomatoes like little green bullets, but they're ripening; a lot of raspberries and blackcurrants, a magnificent eggplant which hasn't produced anything yet but is flowering, and beans, peas, chard, potatoes, and lettuces. Zucchini have flowered and there is a little one on the way.
Onions: hmmmm. Jury is out.
* Not that I'd ever admit to failure, but if anyone likes vaguely fruit-flavoured toffee and has a really big hammer, then email me. You get a free glass jar, which you'll be able to work out your tensions on by shattering it.
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Date: 2006-07-11 12:53 am (UTC)I find that our pet dog is willing to eat almost anything. What's more, my husband rarely complains, because in this house complaining leads to ownership of the job.
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Date: 2006-07-11 08:14 am (UTC)I then went back to my mother and got her advice.
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Date: 2006-07-12 08:39 pm (UTC)I don't have a jam thermometer and I now suspect the push test is one of those "if it passes the test you should have taken it off the heat 5 minutes ago" deals.
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Date: 2006-07-13 09:11 am (UTC)I strongly suspect you're right.
This jelly is okay, but somewhat runny even though I thought the push test was okay. Hmmm.