[mumofstig]

How a hard yellow bitter fruit like a quince transforms into this delicious preserve is some sort of magic 

The weather must have suited them this year, as the jelly is a lovely deep colour

[New shoot]

Wet weekend so been occupying myself with this lot. There is a pink and purple theme today.

Pickled onions with Isobel Rose onions and some red cabbage.  The onions were planted out from modules of multi-sown seeds and grown in clumps.  These are the titchy ones of each bunch 

[mumofstig]

Ooh nice, I've just ordered some Isobel Rose about 10mins ago 

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Look lovely. I’ve hardly done any preserves this year, not sure why, no gluts to speak of so maybe that’s why

[wighty]

My shallots (purchased) are hidden at the back of the cupboard ready for later in the year. Very little chutney or jam eaten in this house so don't bother making any.  When my daughters were small they used to love making 'bird nests'. Red cabbage as the nest with a couple of pickled onions in the middle as eggs.  If you asked them what they wanted in their sandwich it was always ' just pickle' as in Branston.   They still have to have a jar of my onions and cabbage for 'that' day in December.   Don't know this year how I am going to get it to them.

[Growster...]

HP sauce used to be a sandwich of choice many years ago Wighty, so a pickle sandwich is a great alternative!

Mrs Growster sowed some three-year old chilli seeds back in the spring, and most of them came up! We kept a few, and gave several plants away as well, but we still had so many chillis, that I was 'forced' to make some chilli jam!

The chilli and apple (again, from a chum), recipe said between 10 - 15 chillis, but I doubled that, so have to think twice before getting any on my fingers...

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HP sauce used to be a sandwich of choice many years ago Wighty, so a pickle sandwich is a great alternative!

Mrs Growster sowed some three-year old chilli seeds back in the spring, and most of them came up! We kept a few, and gave several plants away as well, but we still had so many chillis, that I was 'forced' to make some chilli jam!

The chilli and apple (again, from a chum), recipe said between 10 - 15 chillis, but I doubled that, so have to think twice before getting any on my fingers...

Cor, I’d be thinking twice about opening the jar lol

[Growster...]

Snows, I'm afraid to even go anywhere near the jars...

They seem to loom out from the pantry like something out of Bergerac (without the car), and the tentacles just loom large!

If I don't survive this winter, just ask the Atomic Nasty Company of Hawkhurst, and they'll tell you what happened...:{~

[mumofstig]

Just reducing more Apple & Rhubarb chutney but I used some of the quinces as well as some windfall apples. It does seem to have a richer flavour, so will deffo do this again 

[mumofstig]

In an effort to free up a freezer drawer for Christmas goodies I made the tubs of blackberries, plus a small quantity of redcurrants into a seedless jam. The first try didn't set very well, so I had to tip it out and boil it for a bit longer - which seems to have worked.
It's a bit sharp for toast, right now, but it will work in sponge cakes and puddings, if it doesn't mellow after a few months storage 

[snowdrops]

Look lovely. I’ve hardly done any preserves this year, not sure why, no gluts to speak of so maybe that’s why

I lied lol, well not strictly, just that I’d forgotten what I had made, last week I pickled 3 jars of shallots & 3 of red cabbage, both homegrown & also turned the last of the beetroot into beetroot & apple chutney. Today I labelled it & put it away in my ‘new’ pantry. We turned an unused & unloved downstairs toilet into the new pantry earlier in lockdown take 1. So today I had a bit of a rejig & tried to move all of this years preserving onto one shelf but there was too much  & here’s the evidence .
Oh & I've also done cassis, gooseberry vinegar,cherry gin & I think raspberry gin. Must get round to straining them all, the fruits been in for months

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P.s I have anti gravity shelves

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I’m just trying different ways of posting the pictures as sometimes they don’t turn upside down

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  that doesn’t work either

[mumofstig]

P.s I have anti gravity shelves

I did wonder