Saturday, 17 September 2011

Marrow rum in the demi john

3 narrows 3 weeks with demerara sugar Orange and yeast. Transferred to demi john the juice, scooped out half digested flesh and added. Nub of ginger sliced thinly. Half packet raisins. Mixture apricot 800g muscavado, demerera, dark and white sugar diluted 200mlb warm boiled water. Another sachet yeast. Mixed and spun. Sealed. Airing cupboard 6 months. Inspect, add more sugar and possibly sieve from lees, 6 months bottle


Friday, 16 September 2011

More pics from allotment

Some pics of cherry toms, chillies, more toms, sweetpeas and cabbage, dahlias runner beans and brocolli and lake, beetroot, rainbow chats, coldframes of chillies and aubergine, caugette and sweetcorn, leeks.













Wednesday, 14 September 2011

Allotment snaps Sept

Just some quick snaps from my phone. First with massive cabbage, maincrop onions, and sweet peas in background. Second the hugemungus runner beans, our friend Lee reckoned we could of one a medal, and pink dahlia. Other pic of Corvette/marrows and sweetcorn. Must have forgotten about tomatoes and chillies.




Polish supper, pork kutlets

Cooked by Piotr Leszynski on a visit to Liverpool. Just one of the good food creations on offer in our 'Polish enterprise'. 6 pound a portion, better value than pie and chips. Other dishes and sides to include pierogi, bigos, soup, sliced sausage, gerkins, crisps, beer.



Marrow rum in the making

Put these beauties in 3 weeks ago, this Fri ill drain them. They're stuffed with demerara sugar, a bit of oj, and some wine yeast. Not sure if they'll work. I might drain into seperate jars in case (i have 3). Then the good ones I'll scrape out skins partly digested into demijohn, possibly more sugar and more yeast. Wait few months, strain into fresh demi john, and leave for a year. Then drink fech