About this time last year, Sarah told us how to bottle fruits in the oven rather than the waterbath method. She was told how to do it by a lady in Lakeland when she was in buying new rubber gromits for her kilner jars. Well, exactly this time last year I had a lovely harvest of large blackberries and plums (and later in the season, pears) and so I tried bottling them. I followed her instructions to the letter. Last night I opened a kilner of blackberries to have with icecream for pudding. I was dubious. Would they be overly sweet, soggy, taste horrid, be mouldy? Such joy. They were perfect in every way. The fruits were firm and flavoursome, hardly sugar sweetend at all. The syrup is light as the fruits produced a lot of liquid so didn't need a lot of sugar syrup added, and I could drink the syrup with lemonade easily.
Glorious glorious Supersprout. :-*
I do miss her & her expert advice :)
What a lovely way to remember her EJ. XXX
EJ, can you post a link to Sarah's advice, I'd love to have a go at bottling pears via Sarah's method
Kathi
Nice one EJ ;D She was a superstar wasn't she? ;)
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Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened
And many thanks EJ for your reminder and acknowledgement of Sarah's life and her contributions here to us 8)
What a woman! I think of her often ............. soooooooooooo kind, never met her but she sure did shine from within!
Yup, I miss her pm's about what we are preserving or doing to.
http://www.allotments4all.co.uk/smf/index.php/topic,23734.0.html - here is the link, her instructions to bottling. Again this year I am hunting out smaller kilner jars so I can bottle all of my surplus fruits. Have now done plums and greengages. ;D
Thanks EJ that's ace ;D We don't have any fruit trees or bushes yet, but the advice will come in handy in the future :-*