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Growing => Fruit => Topic started by: mikey9863 on August 06, 2013, 08:25:47 pm
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I have taken a stock of the friut and I have numerous apple, plum and pear trees as well as some fig.....then all the wild fruits such as blackcurrant,blackberries, raspberries and redcurrant....
What should i do with them all.....Cider, wine, preserve or bake....Ideas please
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Take a Hygiene Certificate online - about £20; make jam, jelly, chutney, pies, crumbles etc - label according to the legal guidelines and start a farm shop. :excited:
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Many of them can be frozen, in particular the berries and currants. Do you have cooking apples? Cook, cool and freeze in portions.
Lucky you to have loads of fruit.
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And if you run out of freezer space, bottling works well for all of them. When I was young, we always had bottled fruit for dessert. More elaborate "puddings" were for Sundays only.
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I also have loads of fruit and no idea what to do with it. So I know how you feel Mikey 9863.
I did turn some of the fruit into a summer fruits pudding, very simple and quick to make. But it dose have to be in the fridge over night, according to the recipe. But I made it early morning and served it that evening, with great results :thumbsup: . Other half said it was the best pudding I've ever made :eyelashes: . I wouldn't know as I didn't have any of it, because I HATE summer fruits :huff:
Take a Hygiene Certificate online - about £20; make jam, jelly, chutney, pies, crumbles etc - label according to the legal guidelines and start a farm shop. :excited:
I'm loving this idea :thumbsup: , is that really all it takes to sell home made stuff ?, a hygiene certificate & labelling.
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We press all our apples for cider and juice. The black/red currants, raspberries and strawberries get weighed in batches and put into the freezer but will be made into jam, cordial, coulis and ice cream.
I find that easier to manage. The summer is such a busy time on the smallholding that the last thing I want to be doing is fruit processing indoors.
I am interested in the bottling side of things. We seem to be getting a pear harvest this year. I would like to bottle those.
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Can you make jam from frozen fruit then Suziequeue?
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I always have.
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Jellies, jams, ice-cream, juices, cordial, wines, cider, just frozen for use through the winter. Depends what you like to eat and drink, I guess. We get through a lot of jam so I've been stockpiling that this year with a bit of jelly and cordial thrown in (oh, and lots of ice-cream but that gets gobbled up straight off - good for using up eggs as well though). I've just bought a load of wine-making stuff from my neighbour who wanted to clear it so gooseberry wine is next on the agenda once I can get my head around 'proper' brewing. Most of our apples are newly planted but I have hopes we can become self-sufficient on fruit juice as well.
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Oh, and we have a lot of fig trees too. I'm not a big fan but my mum loves them so I'm trying to perfect a 'figs in brandy' recipe for preserving them.
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Figs make nice jam too - if you eat that kind of thing... I also made a "proper fig roll" with it in the past. Very popular.
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I've wanted a fig tree for years but the only suitable place for it would be on the route from the goat yard to the milking bench, so I don't think it would stand a chance. :(
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We have lived in an old pear orchard for 47 years and hardly ever done anything with the pears apart from feed them to the pigs. We sometimes stew a few and occasionaly bottle them but that's about it. Half the trees were pulled up in the 80s to make way for a new yard and shed. Nobody seems to want them
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Take a Hygiene Certificate online - about £20; make jam, jelly, chutney, pies, crumbles etc - label according to the legal guidelines and start a farm shop. :excited:
I'm loving this idea :thumbsup: , is that really all it takes to sell home made stuff ?, a hygiene certificate & labelling.
http://www.highspeedtraining.co.uk/food-hygiene/?gclid=CKfzyPy08bgCFcLHtAodbR8AbA (http://www.highspeedtraining.co.uk/food-hygiene/?gclid=CKfzyPy08bgCFcLHtAodbR8AbA)
You might get an inspection of your kitchen too.
See this thread - http://www.accidentalsmallholder.net/forum/index.php?topic=17992.0 (http://www.accidentalsmallholder.net/forum/index.php?topic=17992.0)