Food for Free

[callmemadam]

Out this afternoon, I saw an elderly couple picking blackberries. Already? Better stock up on preserving sugar and vinegar as before I know it it will be time for apple jelly and pickled onions. I made rose hip jelly once but doubt if I could bother again. I still have a lot of suitable recipes, though, copied from Richard Mabey's book Food for Free. How very seventies.

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[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

I have requested a sloe-finding mission on English Nature land come October :)

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

Your source should be good. Hope the gin will be, too.

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

Do you have a recipe? I found lots through Google, but I'd trust a book more.

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

Yes. Funnily enough not in some quaint old recipe book but in a book of cocktails. You need enough sloes to half fill a bottle. One of the old books has a recipe for sloe wine, which requires 'a gallon' of sloes and a barrel to make the wine in.

[gghost.livejournal.com]

I usually make peach jam in the summer, but between the heat and the squirrels beating me to the peaches, I'm afraid it's not to be this year.

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

Peach jam sounds yum. It's not a thing we get here, although apricot jam has alays been popular.