The Cottage Smallholder

yes, these are japanese kaki, very sweet and rather lovely, not too sure either about whether to use jam sugar or what with them, the tase is quite mild so don't really want to drown it in apple juice. Thinking about it, may try adding some alcholol at the end of the process. Let you know how I get on.

Thanks for the link, in fact that is almost what OI have done after a couple of trials except I have used a small lime and I didn't use a microwave.

The result is interesting although not stimulating and although it was only as small amount of lime it has sort of taken the whole thing over.

I am going to give it some thought and will have another go using lemon before chucking the towel in.

Also it has a strange dry bitter aftertaste but is pleasing at first and I am wondering if the is the skin from the Kaki and I am going to peel them next time and also I will have a go also straining like I do apples.

Ditto about Jam sugar, I have bags of it in the cupboard unused.

Will let you know where, if anywhere this goes.

Many thanks though.

chris

These have a lovelly really sweet taste and the skins are just beginning to wrinkle, they are absolutely ripe although where/when they were ripened I cannot say, nor which country they come from. All I really know is that I have been told the are 'Japanese' Kaki, but what that means exactly I don't know.

Will press on with my experiments although it wont be tonight now, probably get back to it on Monday, we'll see.

Will let you know where I get with it, but am living more in hope than expectation now about this!!

Shelley, many thanks for this, I am really grateful and I will give it a whirl anon. I say anon because this morning I had an accident stumbling down the stairs at my new cottage, I grabbed the bannister but have burnt off some of the palm of my right hand and the soft pads on 3 of my fingers so am walking wounded at the moment. That will teach me to be more careful in future !! And no, I hadn't touched a drop !! Living, as I do, on my own trying to do things one handed is very frustrating as you can probably imagine. Take care and if you have stairs take even greater care.

chris

Hi Shelley, many thanks. I thought I would be in some difficulty sleeping last night, I am not at all good with pain, but unbelievably I had a full 7 hours - must have been the shock!!

Am at the surgery later this morning to have the dressings changed.

The bannister ?  The top flight of stairs in my cottage are very shallow stairs (it is a 3 floor cottage) and when I bought it I thought the existing bannister on the LHS when you descend was not sufficient so on the other wall, which is on the inside as you look at the turn on the staircase and could not have a proper wooden bannister fitted due to the awkwardness of the shape of the wall, I went back to my sailing days and fitted a rope bannister which held up well and took the strain no problem, but also gave me rope burns in the process.

All I can say is OUCH !!

Be careful !! I will in future that is for sure.