and jellying.....
I have been busy preserving - I managed to get some medlars and quinces from the farmers market and made some jellies, and also used up the end of the free damsons and mini quinces making jam and quince cheese. The medlars are quite interesting - I'd never used them before but they were quite popular several hundred years ago! The interesting thing is that you have to let them 'blet' of rot before you can use them - so I left mine under several rather ripe bananas for a week or so to get them all soft and brown. Then I stewed them for about an hour until they were pulpy and strained the juice. Finally for evey 600ml I added 450g sugar and boiled up the jelly until it set on a plate. This didn't take long as they're packed full of pectin! The other jellies were just the same and the jam, with help from Fran, Katie and Kira soon coated nearly every surafce of my very sticky kitchen after an evening of stirring and testing! The quince cheese is curing in the airing cupboard so more on that later.
These are medlars before bletting
2 comments:
LOVe this ... but here's a very prosaic question - I can do the jamming and jellying, but I can't make the labels ... HOW did you make such beautiful labels? Step by step, please ;)
Joanna
Ah thats the easy bit - I use powerpoint and just change the type face and then select a border round it. If you write something and then double click on it you should get a wizard popping up that will give you all the options.....
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