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- Sun Apr 07, 2024 10:44 pm
- Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
- Topic: Kale
- Replies: 5
- Views: 140
Re: Kale
I can recommend Pentland Brigg, Ragged Jack and Cavolo Nero, all hardy, easy to grow and easy to find seed for, all good tasting. Kailyard is an old Scots word for a vegetable garden where cabbages (kail) were grown, also other vegetables; from the Nors word "kal". Kailyard was also the na...
- Fri Dec 08, 2023 12:07 am
- Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
- Topic: Butter/Bertolli
- Replies: 1
- Views: 224
Re: Butter/Bertolli
I've found that butter freezes successfully for six months or so, if well wrapped.
I have bottled butter in Kilner jars.
An alternative could be ghee - can be made at home or bought in tins.
I have bottled butter in Kilner jars.
An alternative could be ghee - can be made at home or bought in tins.
- Thu Oct 12, 2023 9:11 pm
- Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
- Topic: Look at the size of my marrow
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1004
Re: Look at the size of my marrow
Oooo err - what are you going to do with it?
- Mon Oct 09, 2023 6:18 pm
- Forum: Equipment
- Topic: Now I've seen it all (PotatoSmart)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2852
- Mon Oct 09, 2023 12:07 pm
- Forum: Equipment
- Topic: Now I've seen it all (PotatoSmart)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2852
Re: Now I've seen it all (PotatoSmart)
I needed some resealable glass bottles for homebred so took one for the team and bought a case of grolsch. Win win 🏆 Another case of using the right thing for the job. I've long lost count of the times I've tried to get people to use the proper bottles for beer, elderflower champagne etc. I've had ...
- Mon Oct 09, 2023 11:22 am
- Forum: Equipment
- Topic: Now I've seen it all (PotatoSmart)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2852
Re: Now I've seen it all (PotatoSmart)
are only £5 full of coffee. Why would I pay £4 for an empty jar and end up throwing my kenco jars away? :? Kilner jars are for preserving by heat process - you cannot do that with coffee jars, Kenco or otherwise. To store dried goods in Kilners is to completely miss the point of them, and if that's...
- Mon Oct 09, 2023 10:18 am
- Forum: Equipment
- Topic: Now I've seen it all (PotatoSmart)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2852
Re: Now I've seen it all (PotatoSmart)
Kilner jars for preserving are worth every penny, even if you have to pay full price - jars for life. In my (long) experience, nothing else touches them for quality and longevity. Look at them on a cost-per-use basis and they soon pay for themselves, Granted, new lids/seals can be required, but the ...
- Mon Oct 02, 2023 11:37 am
- Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
- Topic: Home brewing?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 502
Re: Home brewing?
Been homebrewing for over 30 years, no kits though. Currently got cottage cider on the go, some mead maturing nicely and apple wine lined up for next week
Home made beer is well worth the effort, so much better than most you can buy.
Home made beer is well worth the effort, so much better than most you can buy.
- Mon Aug 14, 2023 12:48 pm
- Forum: How are you preparing
- Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 10
- Replies: 1426
- Views: 99760
- Sat Mar 18, 2023 8:20 am
- Forum: Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
- Topic: Long-term meat storage? Venison, rabbit, pheasant
- Replies: 11
- Views: 888
Re: Long-term meat storage? Venison, rabbit, pheasant
Agree about the freezing option, again as long as it is done properly ie well wrapped to prevent freezer burn and in a freezer with a reliable power source. When shtf what would be used to power a freezer? Also the chance of losing it in a prolonged powercut - disastrous if you had a lot of meat in ...