{"id":129,"date":"2010-07-17T19:18:31","date_gmt":"2010-07-17T18:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salvagesisters.wordpress.com\/?p=129"},"modified":"2010-07-17T19:18:31","modified_gmt":"2010-07-17T18:18:31","slug":"preserve-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tullyroan.com\/salvagesisters\/?p=129","title":{"rendered":"Preserve it"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"<\/a>I’ve been making the most of the fruit and flower season by preserving everything i can get my hands on. In January when i spoon out my July raspberry jam, picked after work in the evening sun at Lowes Fruit Farm<\/a>, i’ll certainly be feeling quite smug.<\/p>\n

The elderflower wine is the second lot, as i forgot to put the sugar into attempt one. (Note to self – must stop multi-tasking.) It is currently bubbling away in a very pleasing manner in the corner of the kitchen.<\/p>\n

The jam is a mixture of raspberries and tummelberries, which are a blackberry\/raspberry hybrid. What a romantic name to have if you were a fruit! I also have blackcurrant jam simmering happily in the picture. In case you were thinking at this point how daunting and complex jam-making is, and how you would never get around to it yourself, allow me to disabuse you of this notion. First, get the fruit. Put in a saucepan for a minute, throw in an equal volume of sugar, bubble away for a moment, and bob’s yer uncle. Ok, so the pouring of super-hot liquid into a pre-sterilised scorching hot jam jar isn’t going to be ideal with wee ‘uns running around the kitchen, but my point is, its easier than you think.<\/p>\n

I’m a bit of a chutney maniac, in that no sooner is one lot neatly stacked away in a dark cupboard than another enticing recipe makes itself known. The Tomato, Pepper and Lemongrass is a new recipe i got from the River Cottage Preserving Handbook, which is a worthy investment i might add. I have never actually made the same chutney twice, there are just too many new recipes to try. This one won’t be edible for another month or two, so can’t make a ready recommendation for it just yet. The next one will be Tomato and Ginger. Mmm…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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