home made veg soup

 carrots, parsnips, spuds, lettuce 2pints of water salt and pepper

very nice indeed

canning sweet potatoes

 

 HOME MADE ORANGE MARMALDE

INGREDENTS

907G OF SEVILLE ORANGES 18KG OF SUGAR ETHER GRANULATED OR JAM SUGAR 1 LEMON 2LTS OF WATER

 

Method

Wash lemon and oranges in half and squeeze juice out and place pips and pith in a muslin cloth or clean hanky white one

Shed peel finely as possible unless you like chunky peel

Place all in to preserving pan and bring to the boil and simmer for 2 hours until peel soft then remove bag of pips and pith and allow cooling

Add sugar and dissolve over low heat boil for 20 minutes until setting point ether the saucer method were you place a little bit of marmalade then place in fridge or use a candy temp gauge 

While leaving to cool slightly warm your jars and lids in the oven for half hour then fill and label

With date and year as    HOME MADE SEVILLE ORANGES MARMALDE

 

 

KALE SOUP

As I am the only one in the house who likes kale I decided this morning I would make a soup with it and it was very yummy indeed

It smelled lovely while cooking and it did not stink the house out ether as greens on the whole have a bad reputation for smelling while cooking 

All I need to do is sever it up  enjoy your day


 

BEETROOT MARMALDE

 

 

 

 

Beetroot cooling in cold water after beaning  boiled  now it only me that can eat the beetroot as David is allergic to it so today I made my self two jars of beetroot marmalade  to go on my salads an cold meats


So while have a coffee I thought I would make myself some beetroot jam/marmalade
 I had a LB of beetroot so I needed a IB of sugar  a bit of lemon juice and 3/4 of a pint of water .
put some jars into the oven to heat up so they would be ready for the Beetroot Jam /Marmalade

until next time have a blessed week

Small cakes and loaf cake for weekend

 

 

My basic recipe is as follows

4 eggs

8oz of butter

8oz of castor sugar

8oz of self-raising or plain flour

 

And I added 3 big heap table spoons of sweet mincemeat like you have in your pies at Christmas

 

Cook for 25 minutes on the middle self of Oven mine is a fan assisted one  160 f

 

 

MADE APPLE AND PLUM JAM TODAY

 Coming up to boiling point

it made 5 and a bit jars out of 2lb of fruit not bad is it ,well I do not anyway

I am still waiting to set some servile oranges but I might make a lemon and lime marmalade if I can not get the right oranges never tried other makes oranges has anyone one else ?
if so leave a comment in the comment box
have blessed week

W I MEETING TOMORROW NIGHT

Now this will be the first of our new meeting of the year and we are all helping with bits and bobs to go with our tea and coffee at break time now I am just pondering what shall I take with me ?

Do I take cake ,sandwiches , crackers with something on them like cheese, egg, or tuna or shall I make a pizza ? I just can not make my mind up as next month I am doing it with two others to help me first time helping with the tea side of things.

David likes it as he gets to taste some before hand and if he gives the thumps up sign I know their are ok

any ideas warmly welcome  so please drop a line in the comment box below
have a blessed day and week until next time

First time making homemade pizza

Well I decide to have a go at making a homemade pizza rather than a shop bought one

As part of trying not to rely on shops for our food as we are deeming to harvest the vegetables and fruit from the garden were possible this year 

 

This is the first proving of the pizza dough now for the pizza before beaning cooked

  and after being cooked 

very yummy and will do again much better than a shop brought one any day so sorry no more shop brought pizza from now on  I am afraid   and I going to be changing the title of this blog to things I cook and keep wordpress for gardening, seedy pen pals   and my wildlife

lots of birds this morning

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