The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Growing => Vegetables => Topic started by: urban farmer on October 06, 2009, 07:39:40 pm
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Hi folks,
have been stripping the veg patch out toda and found some very large, old beetroot that I had forgotten was growing. Any ideas what might be suitable to make it palletable or is it a lost cause?
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lost methinks........................very woody :-\ :-\
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For goodness sake don't be tempted to try beetroot wine. ;) We thought it would make a good talking point when we produced this beautiful full bodied red from the cellar at Christmas. ::) We checked it every year for FIVE years and it never improved beyond the taste of earth >:( :( :'(
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Thanks, guess I will put that one down to experience then!
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I once made beetroot wine after someone gave me some that they had grown. I made the wine and then as I was moveing from a flat to my first house I filtered it and left it in a large demijohn in the cellar of my new home. On moveing to my next home some 18 months later I found it in the cellar. A friend said that he would put it through a filter and bottle it. Some weeks later - a Sunday afternoon we decided to taste it. Well it was fantastic. It tasted like port! Everyone enjoyed it - said it was the best they had ever tasted and it did not give you a headache the next day. The trouble is I can't remember how to make it so I have never tried to make it since as I did not want to ruin the memory of such a good wine!
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I would just throw it in with lots of other stuff for a stock. We make stock out of any bones + veg. Just strain it after pressure cooking, then reduce to a thick liquid and freeze. Never bought a stock cube in years! :&>
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Grate it finely and put it in chocolate cake mix ;)
trust me 8)
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Grate it finely and put it in chocolate cake mix ;)
What a brilliant idea.
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I tasted that at a school fair, it was lovely! :&>
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They had some at that food fair - just tasted like chocolate cake
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that's the one I meant, just remembered the cake, not the occasion, that's how good it was , lol
not supposed to think about food all the time, are we?? :&> :&>