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Chit Chat / Re: What are you cooking today?
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This was my recipe disaster at the weekend. Despite throwing out and giving away kilos and kilos of crabapples we still have heaps on the tree so on Saturday I decided I couldn’t waste them … I would make crabapple jelly.
Picked and prepared the fruit (c. 2 kg) and tossed them and some fresh raspberries for colour (thanks for that tip, Chookie) into the pot and cooked it down for c. 90 minutes. Then drained them through my strainer (tipping about 1/3 of them onto the floor in the process!).
Left the remainder to drain overnight then on Sunday I put the fluid into the pot for the final 15 minutes or so of boiling with the sugar … that’s where the main problem was … I found I had misread the recipe and put the sugar into the fruit for the initial cooking on Saturday.
OK, I thought, sugar is sugar so everything will be alright. Sadly, I didn’t end up with crabapple jelly, but I did end up with absolutely delicious crabapple sauce. It was gorgeous and went so well with ice cream.
However, I have learned my lesson, so when (if) I make more crabapple jelly this weekend I will put the sugar in at the right time (although the sauce was so nice I am almost tempted to copy last weekend’s “invention”!). Anyway, fingers crossed for a successful jelly making session this weekend.
Picked and prepared the fruit (c. 2 kg) and tossed them and some fresh raspberries for colour (thanks for that tip, Chookie) into the pot and cooked it down for c. 90 minutes. Then drained them through my strainer (tipping about 1/3 of them onto the floor in the process!).
Left the remainder to drain overnight then on Sunday I put the fluid into the pot for the final 15 minutes or so of boiling with the sugar … that’s where the main problem was … I found I had misread the recipe and put the sugar into the fruit for the initial cooking on Saturday.
OK, I thought, sugar is sugar so everything will be alright. Sadly, I didn’t end up with crabapple jelly, but I did end up with absolutely delicious crabapple sauce. It was gorgeous and went so well with ice cream.
However, I have learned my lesson, so when (if) I make more crabapple jelly this weekend I will put the sugar in at the right time (although the sauce was so nice I am almost tempted to copy last weekend’s “invention”!). Anyway, fingers crossed for a successful jelly making session this weekend.