Yesterday
my great friend Clare came and with her help I cleared a whole cupboard and she
washed the shelves. It was the cupboard
where I keep my homemade jams and pickles so I wanted to make sure that the
last of last year’s stuff came to the front.
It was very interesting.
Last
year for the first time I had a go at bottling apple sauce in reused jars (not
Kilner jars). I was a bit sceptical but
decided that as there were more apples than could be used I wouldn’t really be
wasting anything other than my time and a bit of gas for cooking. Three jars were still at the back of the
cupboard (naughty me) and two were still in perfect condition. I shall do bottled apples again. Success.
However,
the other thing which was left in quantity was apple butter. I had a go at making it in my slow cooker
last year – again on the grounds that the apples would otherwise have gone to
waste. It was a disaster. I wrecked my slow cooker which ended up in
the bin. I didn’t like the apple butter
which I made. And the worst thing of
all? I was stupid enough to store food
which I really didn’t like.
So
the apple butter, like the eggs, has taught me a lesson. There is no point in keeping food which you
have very little prospect of eating.
I have never tried Apple Butter, I looked up several recipes and thought that it was a lot of faffing. I did make lots of apple purée and Fran took most of it to London. Next year I will be up to my armpits with it. I hope,
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