kellymariemcewan
Textile artist / Permaculture Food Forester / Bespoke crochet / Repurposed materials / Wearable Art
Category: Recipes
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Elderberry Wine home brewing
Making elderberry wine, foraging for elderberries from around Somerset
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Making homemade apple cider vinegar
How to make Apple Cider Vinegar (ACV) at home. Simple, easy to follow recipe.
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Rosehip and apple jelly
Crab apple and rosehip jelly recipe, made from foraged fruits gathered around Somerset, UK.
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Blackberry Wine and Apple Cider Vinegar making
What I have been brewing up of late – crab apple cider vinegar, and dry blackberry wine.
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Homebrewing and foraging rosehip wine
Rosehip wine brewed at home I think ‘rose hip wine’ has to be the most adventurous of the foraged wine making I have attempted so far. The must has now been racked and the cereal-y smell created throughout the fermenting process has now dissipated from the kitchen. I have been making so much wine over the summer, and
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Making and bottling elderflower cordial
Elderflower cordial – (simple but messy) Elder is a tree that I have only learned to recognise recently, and it was fuelled by my determination to make and bottle some of the (drinkable) British Classics. First on this list was elderflower cordial. Elderflower season is over for another year, but fortunately I managed to pick quite a few, and it should
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Foraged fruit jelly (crab apple, elderberry, plum and blackberry)
How to make a pectin-rich jelly using glut summer fruit, picked locally.
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A how-to on making jam, pt. 2.
A wrap up on how to make cherry guava jelly from summer foraging in Queensland.
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Pectin test.
I thought I might add my two cents to conversations on the internet about pectin – particularly since the first one I found was atrocious: Windygales, you obviously didn’t know what you were talking about in your initial post, but thanks for the quick turnaround via BBC food. Her question actually wasn’t ‘what is pectin?’ though, so your second
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A how-to on making jam
Making guava jam, and how to use pectin to help jellies gel properly
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