The Vine Preserver's Year 2012

[binley100]

Another 4lb of rhubarb and ginger jam ......yesterday it was dried apple rings and frozen roasted red peppers (they were a woopsie in Asda )

[roitelet]

7 500ml jars of ratatoulli, sterlized. All ingredients home grown!!

[Mikey]

Fresh tomato sauce 8 takeaway trays, (greenhouse tomatoes, garlic, and red onion.)

[chefgage]

Pickled nine jars of beetroot and frozen six takeaway trays of homemade pasta sauce

[roitelet]

Over the last few days - 13 small jars French bean and Tomato Relish, 8 large jars pickled courgettes red pepper and chilli and 8 large jars Piccalli. Everything home grown except the cauli for the piccalli.

[mrswadders]

got 2 days off work to get some done - so far -
6 jars raspberry and plum jam,
6 jars spiced winter jelly
6 jars strawberry peach jam
3 jars apricot jam
piccalli veg salting as we speak
runner bean and courgette chutney cooking.........................still..................!!!!!

tomorrow.....
damson jelly
hedgerow jelly
damson chutney
hot yellow plum chutney
marrow and ginger jam

and whatever else I get round too!!!!!!

Happy times....

house smells lovely!

[mrswadders]

made some 'hawsin' sauce at the weekend - could not believe how good it is, would highly recommend it

[stella]

Plum jam but it has not set, no idea what to do with it????

[stella]

Any advice, I have about a dozen green hot peppers, too hot for us to eat but I dont want to throw them away. Dont know what to do with them

[lulubell]

Plum jam but it has not set, no idea what to do with it????

Hi Stella this happened to me with my plum and apple jam even though it had reached setting point, so I tipped it all back into the pan added a little more suger and some lemon juice and heated it slowly for the suger to dissolve and then reboiled it just checked the jars now and it has set. xx

[stella]

Thanks will give it a go

[Nicos]

4 jars of raspberry and apricot jam

[mrswadders]

just got a load of cheappo strawbs from t@@@@s so planning on making some strawb and plum - strawbs were 20p a punnet (british too!)

[stella]

Got about a dozen long thin hot green peppers, any ideas what to do with them???

[Piggle]

2 bigs jars of pickled beetroot