What a busy morning - I made a rod for my own back by clearing a space in the freezer for blanched Christmas vegetables, and removing blackberries and elderberries which I then had to MAKE something from. Blackberry and Elderberry Jam it was and I made that this morning, but lots of standing and then lots of washing up. It made 5 jars. Here's the recipe:
Thank you Miss F McIntyre, now long pushing up daisies I should imagine as the book, Farmhouse Fare was published in the 1970s and these recipes go back to Farmers Weekly magazines for a generation before. A nice no-nonsense recipe, the sort I like. It will have set well as it was doing so in the pan!
"Rugged up"! and ready to go - Chocolate and Pear Jam.
Cheese & Mustard Scones
Tamzin's neat printing and my awful photo. Hope you get to make it anyway. It's scrummy.
Off to deliver a present to a friend now. Enjoy your day. Nearly at the shortest one, thank heavens.
My, you have been busy, of course you can sit down now ~~~ with a nice cup of tea and slice of cake.
ReplyDeleteNo cake - I'm being good. I couldn't remember if the ham roll I had earlier was a late breakfast or an early lunch but I had to have a toasted muffin at 3.30 to keep it company as my tummy was saying my throat had been cut! The cup of Earl Grey was welcome though.
DeleteDefinitely a sit down due!
ReplyDeleteWhich day would this be? Back to flat out in the kitchen, peeling, chopping and blanching veg to go in the freezer so less for G&T to do on The Day.
DeleteYes, hope you are sitting down with a cat or two or three to keep you warm it’s chilly out there! Love the sound of the pear and choc jam - like poire belle Helene in a jar. I also love how T has written the scone recipe in metric first and imperial measurements second. Reminds me of the conversion chart I made my mum when I was a little girl which my mum kept sellotaped to the inside of the baking cupboard all her life as she never stopped baking - a good example of muscle memory overcoming serious illness. Never fear BB, you and I will be baking and jamming and gardening and making into our old age. A little treat for you now. Maddy Prior was on Music Planet (radio 3 Saturday 16 at 4pm) talking about her life and music from her barn in Bewcastle in the Cumbrian borderlands. The programme is now on BBC Sounds. Happy Solstice for tomorrow. Sarah x
ReplyDeleteBriefly sitting whilst checking Keith is ok with his tea (lamb cooked to total relaxation!) T wrote the metric from the book, and then made sure the imperial measurements there for me as that's what I always use unless they aren't put down. Her writing is far neater than mine I hasten to add.
DeleteHope I will be baking and jamming and gardening until I hopefully just fall in a heap. Off to check out Maddy Prior shortly - many thanks for the heads up - and I also want to listen to Rhianna Pratchett's Mythical Creatures - I'm 3 behind already. I keep bobbing up to blanch something else for 3 minutes (now onto the carrots), and THEN I need to crack on with my Kedgeree.
Solstice can't come soon enough - I was thinking on my walk the other day that by the end of January it will be light till 5 p.m. Hooray!
Greenhouse up (bar door) and that and glass being installed tomorrow. Oh, and the internal staging tomorrow too.
Can't get my head round Pear and Chocolate Jam!
ReplyDeleteHope by now you are sitting down and resting
Try it - a totally different spread for the hampers next year (it's meant to go with Croissants and the like). The Banana Jam I make is pretty amazing too (won 1st prize with that at our local agricultural show. Plus my chutney. Talk about putting the cat amongst the pigeons - oh gosh, the old biddies on the committee nearly had heart attacks and changed the entry rules next year - it has to be a pot of STRAWBERRY jam! Had a brief rest but have carried on galloping . . . Tomorrow it is the Braised Red Cabbage and then the Sprouts! That will be a sit-down job on the sofa I think.
DeleteOh yes, do sit down! I'll check those recipes closely. Thank you for posting them.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely sit down and have a nice rest. Thanks for the recipes.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
Sit down, put your feet up and have a nibble or two!
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