This morning, when I woke up refreshed, thanks to an extra hour in bed, and it was nice and light, the clocks changing did not seem such a bad idea. But by 5, when it was dark, and miserable.. suddenly it seems winter is upon us. I think we have been fooled, by hot weather [...]
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dark
Posted in general wittering, homebrew, recipes on 30 October 2011 | 2 Comments »
apple juice day
Posted in fruit, grow your own food, homebrew on 16 September 2011 | 4 Comments »
Today, a sunshiney day, became apple juice day. The sweet apples I shook out of the tree a while ago have been lurking in the freezer, and they were thawed crushed and pressed. We made 15 litres of juice. Some is already on it’s way to cider, whilst the rest frozen to be drunk as [...]
rumtopf update and fruit harvesting
Posted in fruit, grow your own food, homebrew, recipes on 13 August 2011 | 1 Comment »
lots of fruit coming in now, so I can spare some for the rumptopf – 200g of cherries, and 200g of victoria plums – with 200g of sugar and a slosh of dark rum. The pears are ripe, and falling from the tree, so time to pick and ripen them – and I think there [...]
rumtopf
Posted in homebrew, recipes, tagged rumtopf on 1 June 2011 | 3 Comments »
A few weeks ago, I came across a rumtopf pot in a charity shop. I’d been keeping an eye out for one, and there it was in an unobjectionable colour for £1.50 (bargain when you compare to prices on ebay). I have a feeling people only ever make a rumtopf once – whether this is [...]
pontack sauce
Posted in homebrew, recipes, self-sufficiency, wild foods on 30 September 2010 | 3 Comments »
It’s a good year for elderberries – surprising given how we tried to have all of the flowers earlier in the year as fritters, champagne and cordial, but still the elder is laden with berries. We picked few kilos and I now have two gallons of apple and elderberry wine on the go. What to [...]
apple juice
Posted in fruit, grow your own food, homebrew, recipes, self-sufficiency on 5 September 2010 | 1 Comment »
We have picked most of our apples now – and a good crop it is appearing to be – early again though – and they say they don’t keep if picked early – however, if they are ripe, they wont keep if we don’t pick them either. So they are in the cold shed – [...]
apple wine
Posted in homebrew, recipes, self-sufficiency on 3 September 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Apple pressing time of year, so we needed to free up a demijohn, which meant checking out my brewery, and bottling a finished wine. Here it is – apple 2007 – and a very nice one too. If only I had kept the recipe. I went to my trusty notes,, but for this one, I [...]
elder
Posted in grow your own food, homebrew, self-sufficiency, wild foods on 1 June 2010 | 3 Comments »
Summer is here.. we had our first elderflower fritters, and the first batch of elderflower champagne is brewing in the kitchen. Had to scrape together enough flower heads, but always worth it for the first time Weather is set to be good for next few days.. and I’ve done a Rosie… that is.. i managed [...]
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