Posted by: Mia | 5 August 2006

Yay, I have yellow ripe peppers

Harvested 3 bright yellow Oro peppers today (photo to follow at some stage!). Edit - photo added 13th August:

oropeppers

Tomatoes are coming on nicely as well.

Last week, made a whitecurrant jelly using Delia’s recipe (available online at her website somewhere, I’ll get round to sorting out the link sometime). Tasted lovely as the bits sieved but still hanging under the sieve made a lovely jam for toast.

Garden-grown small shallots are being made into a gooseberry chutney (as a substitute for onions) by my other half as I type this.

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I was looking for redcurrants to make jelly and to use to set strawberry jam, but I could only find blackcurrants and whitecurrants (from the same farm, mind!). I made jam from the blackcurrants, following Darina Allen’s recipe, and it’s fantastic. I went through exactly the same procedure with the whitecurrants, and I got rock-hard sticky fruit tar. My conclusion is that whitecurrants are absurdly high in pectin, as redcurrants are, and should be treated like redcurrants, not like blackcurrants.

By: ben on 20 August 2006
at 5:59 am

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