Well Preserved
Posted: Mon 3 August, 2009 Filed under: Domestic 1 Comment »Here, the weekend turned into a bit of a preserving fest.
On Saturday, another trip to the local “Pick Your Own” fruit place, another four punnets of raspberries – somewhere just north of 6lb of fruit – for a tenner. Going to a PYO place makes you realise just how obscene the profit margins are in supermarkets for fruit etc.
On Sunday, we harvested all the beetroot (both red and white), and cooked and pickled them. So that’s two lots of 1.25 litre bottles, one with white pickled beetroot and one with red.
Following from that, the majority of the raspberries from Saturday’s picking went to be made into jam – where we’ve got around 12lb of jam out of it.
Not bad at all – home-made preserves really can be quite fun.
I was in a rural garden centre I don’t usually go to last week. They also do PYO. I couldn’t believe how expensive PYO is these days. Chatting to the lady serving in the shop, she said that PYO is now seen as a day out and priced accordingly.
It’s cheaper to buy fruit on our local market than to go and PYO round here!
I love this time of year – the house constantly full of sweet or vinegary odours according to what we’re harvesting/preserving at the time.