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Eating and Drinking => Cooking, Storing and Preserving => Topic started by: Annie on July 03, 2007, 19:16

Title: Garlic
Post by: Annie on July 03, 2007, 19:16

I`ve grown too much garlic again.Does anyone have reciepes for vast Quantities of the stuff?Also does garlic butter freeze well?

Title: Garlic
Post by: WG. on July 03, 2007, 20:09

You can puree and freeze garlic to have it in a very convenient form.  (but it tends to stink out the whole freezer)

Why not hang it up to use as needed - it should keep for 9 months easily.

Title: Garlic
Post by: nobby on July 04, 2007, 16:15

smoked garlic tasts grate and stores well

also try roasting whole bulbs they are lovley and sweet

Title: Garlic
Post by: Annie on July 06, 2007, 09:59

Will be hanging it WG but still have some from last year which I will have to ditch(unless I keep a few to grow from).I tried to grow less this year but it is a good year for garlic and the bulbs are hugh have 28 bulbs so far and that is just the purple wight,there are many more to come out!I really must get a grip on quantities this year. :lol:

Title: Garlic
Post by: David. on July 06, 2007, 18:39

I started growing garlic from some large purple bulbs bought from a car boot sale about 20 years ago, which kept us (and our families) in garlic for many, many years until the crop was devastated by white rot and we did not have any cloves to re-plant.

Now I always try and grow too much, and in at least 2 locations. If one crop fails we have sufficient, if both succeed we have excess to share.

So what I really mean is that I don't feel bad about having some excess garlic that might be simply composted any more.

Title: Garlic
Post by: Beanzie on July 06, 2007, 23:11

Sounds like a good problem to have especially in such a wet year

Title: Rolling back the years
Post by: JCA on July 15, 2007, 17:59

When I were a chef before I were a gardener we used to chop loads of garlic in a food processor and store it in a large bottle topped up with oil. Kept for ages and ages and made fantastic garlic pitta bread on the BBQ. For the garlic bread soak bread in some garlic oil and toast gently on the barbie. The low fat version brush the oil with some garlic onto the bread as it's toasting - Yum! You could always use the oil and the garlic in cooking as you would normally - eazzzy!
I have also done this today with red/blackcurrants and raspberries. Replaced the oil with vodka - even more yum yum!

Title: Garlic
Post by: David. on July 16, 2007, 16:59

I have always meant to try that.

Is it olive/sunflower/vegetable oil you use?

Instead of skinning and chopping in a food processor, could I use my Zyliss garlic press and use this as a way of easily preserving all the small cloves?

And what proportion of oil to garlic - is it just enough to cover it?

Title: Garlic
Post by: JCA on July 16, 2007, 19:23

You can chop it as you like with what you like, although chopping it up small would be a good idea; more surface area to be preserved.
I think it was only veg oil that we used to use, I would probably use the olive oil now but not expensive stuff.
Regarding how much, you do want to cover the garlic and of course there's nothing stopping you topping up the oil as you use it. Good luck!
I am going to have to do some of this myself - we have this evening pulled up all our garlic and we've now a medium trug full.

Title: Garlic
Post by: Scribbler on July 18, 2007, 12:48

Do a Google for pickled garlic

Title: Garlic
Post by: tetley on July 18, 2007, 23:03

mmmmm, I'm going to do that JCA...thanks