The big pick goes straight into the large 5 litre copper boilers on the stove with herbs, onions and garlic, to be reduced down to pulp and preserved in sterilised glass jars as tomato passata for use throughout the year in all sorts of meals from pasta sauce to a lovely flavourful addi...
preservation—lemon and lime juice—have a pH measurement of about 2. Tartaric, malic, and oxalic acids are found in tea, apples, stone fruits, and grapes. Those foods have an approximate pH range of 3 to 5. Out of all of these, acetic acid is the most useful to us when acidifying ...
The pig loves apples, melons, grapes, stone fruits, tomatoes, cucumbers…anything but citrus. The chickens will eat melons till their rinds are practically see-through! So, although I would rather not let it go…produce doesn’t go to waste at my house. Apples get a bit old, pears a ...
Some boxes and crates will be designed so you can stack them but if you do this make sure that air can circulate between the levels. Apples and pears are well suited to storing. Wrap each fruit in newspaper and place in a single layer in the bottom of your container. Root vegetables ...
Dried apples are so easy too. I saw cans of apple chips in the store the other day for $3.50 each. Even if I had to buy apples and dry them, I could make 10 cans of apple chips for that amount. Consider investing in a dehydrator.Here is the one I use.I see them at garage sa...
In addition to this, fresh fruit and veggies in supermarkets have sat in their supply chains for an awfully long time, far longer than you might expect in some cases – apples are stored in temperature controlled, oxygen-free warehouses which dramatically slows their deterioration, but that proc...
Pear Sauce – use ripe pears to make this simple sauce which can be used in the same way as applesauce. How come Apple Sauce is so popular while pear sauce is not? I mean, apples and pears are so similar fruits, they can be used in a similar way, yet pears seem to be neglected ...