Creative practices of a textile artist from Queensland, Australia. Now living in Somerset, England.
Category Archives: Recipes
Elderberry Wine home brewing
Making elderberry wine, foraging for elderberries from around Somerset Continue reading
Posted in Experiments, Foraging, Homebrew, How-to, Preserves, Recipes, Somerset
Tagged Airlock, bottling, demijohns, DIY, elderberry, Elderberry must, fermenting, Foraging, Home brew, Racking, Somerset, Winemaking
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Making homemade apple cider vinegar
How to make Apple Cider Vinegar (ACV) at home. Simple, easy to follow recipe. Continue reading
Posted in Experiments, Homebrew, How-to, Preserves, Recipes, Somerset
Tagged airlocks, apple cider vinegar, crab apples, demijohns, fermenting, Foraging, homebrew, musts, Somerset, vinegar, yeast
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Rosehip and apple jelly
Crab apple and rosehip jelly recipe, made from foraged fruits gathered around Somerset, UK. Continue reading
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Tagged bottling, crab apples, Foraging, jams, jellies, preserves, rosehips, self sufficiency, summer fruit
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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. Continue reading
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Tagged apple cider vinegar, blackberry wine, bottling, crab apples, demijohns, fermenting, Foraging, Somerset
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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 … Continue reading
Posted in Homebrew, How-to, Preserves, Recipes, Somerset
Tagged fermenting, Foraging, homebrewing, how-to, rosehips, wine making, WIP
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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 … Continue reading
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Tagged antique skills, bottling, cordial, DIY, elderflowers, Foraging, preserves, Somerset, summer, work in progress
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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. Continue reading
Posted in How-to, Preserves, Recipes, Somerset
Tagged antique skills, blackberry, bottling, crab apple, DIY, elderberry, handmade, jellies and jams, preserves
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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. Continue reading
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Tagged bottling, Foraging, guava, jam, jelly, preserves, self sufficiency, tropical fruit
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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 … Continue reading
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Tagged bottling, Foraging, jam making, pectin, pectin test, preserves, self sufficiency
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A how-to on making jam
Making guava jam, and how to use pectin to help jellies gel properly Continue reading
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Tagged bottling, Foraging, guava, jam making, preserves, self sufficiency, tropical fruit
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