Tag: preserves

  • Gorse cordial in the Cornish countryside

    Gorse cordial in the Cornish countryside

    Foraging in Cornwall for Fat Hen cookery school. How to pick gorse flowers painlessly and a gorse flower cordial recipe.

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  • Rosehip and apple jelly

    Rosehip and apple jelly

    Crab apple and rosehip jelly recipe, made from foraged fruits gathered around Somerset, UK.

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  • Making and bottling elderflower cordial

    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)

    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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