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Eating and Drinking => Cooking, Storing and Preserving => Topic started by: mrsbean on July 27, 2013, 00:39

Title: storing
Post by: mrsbean on July 27, 2013, 00:39

i,m going to have loads of cabbage this year, wont have enough room in freezer to blanche all of them. does anyone store in straw or hung upside down with root still attached. read this somewhere. suggestions please. if posted in wrong place please move

Title: Re: storing
Post by: BobE on July 27, 2013, 08:15

http://allrecipes.co.uk/recipes/tag-2890/coleslaw-recipes.aspx


You could choose a couple of these and bottle some for the winter.

Title: Re: storing
Post by: willp on July 27, 2013, 08:27

Hi Mrs Bean

Depends a bit on the variety of the cabbage - I`m not sure the looser summer cabbages store well  like this, but the hard white "coleslaw" type cabbages certainly do. I`ve kept these well into the winter in a clamp.

You could try making sauerkraut or you may find that the plants may stand a while in the ground, before bolting.

You could always compost them too - sometimes things grow much better than you thought or you miss expected losses ( I`ve hardly seen a slug this year for example) and you end up with a glut you can`t realistically use.

Any spare cabbage I have, as well as trimmings goes to the chickens  - they love it - maybe trade some for eggs if you know anyone who has chooks?

Will