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while summer is snoring...
Sep. 26th, 2010 05:39 pmAmong the many reasons to love the BBC: the CBeebies autumn song begins, "Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness..." Because it is never too early to introduce the great English poets.
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I am planning to make chutney next week (green tomato, since ours are never going to get any riper now, and if that works, apple in weeks to come), so I have a question for my friends list. A few of the recipes I see call for processing after putting in the jars; is this really necessary? It's been a long time since I made any kind of preserves, but we never bothered with that when we made jam, although we did sometimes seal the jars with wax.
I am also thinking about making quince jelly later this year. I have never made jelly, but we have some japonica quinces and it doesn't look too scary.
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Yesterday I became quite wistful about the thought of leaving this garden, despite its complete unmanageability. We have a weed apple tree which bears huge numbers of small, greenish gold apples which have the most incredible sweet fragrance. (They taste sharp, but cook well.) As it happens, leaving may be more complicated than we thought, due to the presence of a squatter. If anyone knows someone looking for a reasonable-for-Oxford 3 bedroom house (in need of some work, very close to the A34) with a badger in the bottom of the garden, I can tell them who to contact.
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I am planning to make chutney next week (green tomato, since ours are never going to get any riper now, and if that works, apple in weeks to come), so I have a question for my friends list. A few of the recipes I see call for processing after putting in the jars; is this really necessary? It's been a long time since I made any kind of preserves, but we never bothered with that when we made jam, although we did sometimes seal the jars with wax.
I am also thinking about making quince jelly later this year. I have never made jelly, but we have some japonica quinces and it doesn't look too scary.
* * *
Yesterday I became quite wistful about the thought of leaving this garden, despite its complete unmanageability. We have a weed apple tree which bears huge numbers of small, greenish gold apples which have the most incredible sweet fragrance. (They taste sharp, but cook well.) As it happens, leaving may be more complicated than we thought, due to the presence of a squatter. If anyone knows someone looking for a reasonable-for-Oxford 3 bedroom house (in need of some work, very close to the A34) with a badger in the bottom of the garden, I can tell them who to contact.
