Warm welcome Sarah - sounds great - I made some marmalade yesterday, all the jars are sitting lined up on the worktop.
I make mine (very frugally), by saving all the citrus peels, cutting them ready to marmalade, and then freeze them. When I have enough, I add orange juice, and sugar - hey presto marmalade!
Thank you for your warm welcome . I've managed to avoid the rosehips today by making Cornish pasties instead...I will do it tomorrow!
The ducks and chickens are all different ages - ranging from 2 to 3yrs old down to just a few weeks. sadly we lose quite a few to the fox each year so throughout the summer we encourage them to be broody.
Ooooh...I'd love to have chickens, but I'm renting and I don't think the landlord would appreciate it...I did some rose hip syrup the other day using the Cottage Smallholder recipe, the first time I've done anything with rosehips, and it turned out tasty but a bit thin; I think I need to boil it a bit more..I didn't reduce it quite enough. Two things--the hips were hard and the food processor didn't chop them well. I ended up putting them in a plastic bag in batches and bashing them with a rolling pin( my daughter and her friend came running in asking 'what's going on????') One question...In the recipe, it says to 'top and tail' the hips, but in the apple/rosehip jelly recipe it says to just chuck the hips in the water. Is there any reason for the difference? I've been getting very small rosehips for the most part and topping and tailing them is a pain....
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Momghoti why don't you ask your landlord, we rent and we can keep chickens so you never know.
This afternoon I'm making tomato relish, 3 ginger cakes and 3 tea loaves to sell outside the front of the cottage...
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