Well, yesterday, with good intentions, we extracted the juice from the rhubarb. It was left in the jelly bag over night, and we ended up with a fair bit of liquid. I awoke this morning, earlier that I would on a normal Sunday, to finish the job. And tried to finish the job. Using sugar, … Continue reading #NABLOPOMO: That Rhubarb jelly
During the summer, I had harvested some rhubarb. This was then placed into a clip top jar, with cloves, ginger, sugar and vodka. This has been in the airing cupboard for approximately three months. I say approximately, as it had about another ten days to go for that exact term. Shaken at the outset, the … Continue reading #NaBloPoMo: Decanting Day 2: Rhubarb’d Vodka
Today we rhubarb’d. Same recipe. 1.5 litres of fruit. I had harvested a lot of rhurbarb, hoping to get a better fruitier flavour. No cinonman, but some fresh root ginger. The sticks were chopped up into half inch pieces and boiled with the water. After some mashing, which happened rather quickly. The whole thing was … Continue reading Feeling cordial: Rhubarb and Ginger
This recipe required: 1500g blackberries, I had 1kg, With a few raspberries, plums and 3 Small sticks of rhubarb. 400g of sugar Enough cold water to cover them, but let say a litre per kilo. A stick of of cinnoman, I used powder A teaspoon of lemon juice. I put fruit and water into a … Continue reading Feeling cordial: blackberry, raspberry and rhubarb
Have just planted some budded pieces of Victoria rhubarb. Did try once. But it didn’t take. And on that note, Aunty tish harvested some rhubarb and it’s about meet it’s destiny in a crumble.
It does feel a very long time sine I posted anything that was plot and allotment related. Well, I am today. Kind of, at least, as the blackberry wine that was made last year was finally put into bottles. For just over a year, two demi-johns have sat on the side in something of a … Continue reading Bottling that Blackberry wine
As I sit here, I have Adele singing ‘set fire to the rain’ on loop in my ear phones. This is the summer of 2017, and I am having a rest. I’m not very good at having a rest; school and counselling training form a big chunk of my life, then there is the allotment, … Continue reading Summer of 2017: Pause in Play #gdnbloggers
Hold on, this could be a bumper blog. I have lots to share! Today started off with a seed check in. I was thinking about what seedlings I have, how i might keep rolling with growing season and what I might sow next. It turns out that there were quite a few and at varying … Continue reading Super Sunny Sunday with seeds! #Gdnbloggers
There are two parts to this blog post. The first involves the stash of home brewed wine that is developing rather nicely. Today, I have bottled up a batch of Rhubarb and currant wine. This has been lingering for sometime and was brewed in August last year. One of many different varieties, the batch … Continue reading Moonshine and Mooli pods #gdnbloggers
Yeah, Petal Plonk doesn’t sound that good, now does it? Not every thing on the allotment ends up being cooked. There is after all, more than one way to preserve something that has been sow and grown for the future. 2016 involved Petal and I carrying out a number of home brew experiments. Whilst … Continue reading Chateau Petal…or Petal Plonk…#gdnbloggers
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