Last one, I think. A couple of pounds of blackberries, brown sugar and some basics French brandy. Will have to be inverted twice a day for the first week and then once a week to be left for three months.
Wonder if there is a posh name for this?
Weigh in: Baby Bruno bruiser #2
Both of the ghost riders have now been harvested. The second is bigger, heavier and off the kitchen weighing scales at 6lb. The heaviest we have ever had!
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Experiment: pum brandy
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I had searched for simple recipes for plum brandy. I settled on this one with some tweaks of my own. Using 70cl of basics brandy, a couple of pounds of purple plums have been steeped with dark brown sugar. I have added three star anais across the two containers along with two centimetres of fresh root ginger and cassia bark.
Think the first jar may be a bit skewed. There were a few layers of plums and only 20 cl-ish of brandy. I underestimated the juice from the plums. The recipes all suggest that the plums should be removed after three months. I’m hoping that they will disintegrate.
Inside the hot house…again
Marvellous mooli pods
When Japanese radish or mooli bolts, this is what you get. A sea of white flowers and mooli pods.
Appo and pum: experimenting again
Experimenting with the jam pan again. This time it’s apple and plum. With additions of ginger and black cardomom. I did think at one stage that it was wasn’t very pink. So i did add some blackberries.
Everything was piled into the pan, and stewed. The apples took a lot mashing actually, I didn’t anticipate that.
I have used equal quantities of fruit and sugar to keep a balance. With the juice of half a Lemon per pound. I simply cannot get the stuff to reach setting point, but it does in the jar.
Disappointment with chillies
I have all of two chilli fruit. One jalepeno and one hot Thai. And that’s it. Nothing else had fruited, there is lots of foliage but nothing else. As the summer ends, and we enter the twilight of autumn; I am becoming disillusioned with the likelihood that anything is actually going to crop in there. Not really the success that I was hoping for in the poly tunnel.
Handful of pink
Earlier in the summer, I rescued two raspberry plants from a well know high street garden centre. Knowing that these were autumn fruiting, i didn’t think that they would actually crop this year. Something of pleasant surprise though to have a handful already.
Not quite enough for boozy vodka.
Yet.
Weigh in: baby Bruno bruiser
Through sheer fluke, and manual pollination, I have two ghost rider fruit. The one, has starter to ripen and has today been taken from the vine. It does have a whopper of a big brother.
This one is just under 5lb at 4lb 12 ounces. The smallest that I have had, but as I have two this year; this is a bonus.
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