Every summer I bottle a few jars of our wildling peaches. They are like a small version of the golden queen with a flavourful and firm deep orange flesh and what’s great is these self-planted trees are super resistant to powdery mildew, curly leaf and other fungal diseases. For years I’ve been chucking the stones […]
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Old-fashioned Bottled Cream of Tomato Soup
Bottled sunshine, that’s what this is. I make and preserve this soup in late summer/early autumn when tomatoes are sweet, plentiful and cheap. Better still if you can grow your own. A perfect lunch on a cold winter day served with cheese toasties. To make it worth your while (and it is definitely worth it) […]
Bottling Beetroot
I gathered up the last scraggy beetroots from my summer garden and bottled them today. I preserved the main crop about a month ago. These were the ones that weren’t big enough then. They still haven’t grown much but needed to come out of the ground. I buy beetroot from the vege shop all year […]