August 2nd, 2011
A while back I had a stab at making sourdough bread and it was quite successful at first and then the temperatures in the house plummetted and it was so hard and took so long to get any dough to rise that I gave up.
Now we have a spanking new kitchen and the house is a bit more insulated, things are on the up with regards to breadmaking.
August 2nd, 2010
Recently we spent a whole weekend clearing the patch of ground on the other side of the garden wall. This patch has always been covered in nettles, goosegrass and ivy which would creep over the wall and invade the garden. It also wasn’t nice to walk down the path at the bottom of the garden and have to avoid being stung by nettles whenever we wanted to appreciate the view and look down to the beach.
July 28th, 2010
Recently I blogged about making Jam for my friend Matt, for him to sell and raise money for a film he’s making. We’ve named it Dummy Jam as it takes after the man who inspired it – a deaf Scotsman name James Duthie, fondly known as Dummy Jim, who cycled to the Arctic Circle in 1951. It will be on sale at long last this weekend at the Doune the Rabbit Hole Festival and I’ve just designed the labels and printed them out.
June 15th, 2010
I love making jam. I love the whole process, from picking the fruit, getting all the ingredients together, collecting the jars for months on end and the actual process. It’s so quick and easy that I thought for this week’s Tutorial Tuesday I would share this recipe with you and show you how to make Gooseberry & Elderflower jam.
June 9th, 2010
I’ve just re-dsicoverd my River Cottage Handbook No 2 – Preserves by Pam Corbin. I forgot I had this book! One of the first recipes listed is for Green Gooseberry Jam with elderflower and I think I’m going to attempt to make it at the weekend. Our gooseberries are doing well despite the caterpillar attack in May, but with our vigilant picking we managed to eliminate most of the caterpillars after they did their initial damage of eating half of the entire bush!
May 2nd, 2010
Last year I made sourdough bread – which is bread made with naturally occurring yeast and it’s a task that takes practice and experimentation until you get the results you want, so I’d heard, but I couldn’t believe my beginners luck. The first batch of loaves came out perfectly. I gave up the bread baking though – I think it was mostly down to the quantities of loaves the recipe produced and when I tried to reduce the ingredients by a third in order to just make one loaf at a time, for some reason the dough refused to rise and my loaves got flatter and flatter until I gave up.
July 14th, 2009
I’ve been reading up about sourdough bread again recently, which is bread made with naturally occurring yeast rather than the stuff you get in a packet from the supermarket. I’ve been wanting to succeed with this for a long time and have followed a few recipes in books and from friends but nothing has worked in the past and it all seemed like too much hard work. Then I bought Hugh’s latest book on bread and followed the recipe in there and I’m really pleased with the results.
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