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beware parsnips
"Rusty Hinge 2" wrote in message k... You shouldn't buy it then, make your own. It's easy and far, far better. There aren't enough hours in the year. Oh come on! You spend time on the pc ... Ah, but that's non-fattening. Making marmalade is slimming. As long as you don't eat it ... you use more energy making marmalade than poking at a keyboard. Sounds good. It's only a few years since I finished using-up all the jams and marmalade my mother made: some of the pots dated back to the 1950s, and some of the sugar crystals in those were hard as a hard thing, and the size of sweets. Yes, the slow growing crystals grow very large. And very regular. Microwaving the jars on the very lowest setting was fine, and the jam became jam again, but a couple of days later it began to form crystals again. It would take years for them to get to the size of sweets though. Well, as I said, some of the jam was from the 1950s. The crystals had around forty years to grow... And you said that a couple of days after dissolving the crystals in the m/wave they began to gorm again. I find that hard to believe - that crystals large enough to be detected would form after a couple of days. .... whisper I have a numbered bottle of single-cask-bottling of Linkwood. I'm saving it for a special occasion and/or (a) deserving conoisseur(s) innit. looks round your place or mine? Well, bringing it back from Naaaardge on the bus was terrifying enough. So yours. p.s. so good to see that you use butter instead of something produced by men in white coats. Why not enhance it with your own produce? I do, but ATM I haven't got a decent preserving pan. Well, I haven't got a preserving pan. I molish my own pickles and things though. I have a large brass preserving pan going a-begging. I prefer to use a very large ss pan for all preserving. it's not as pretty but it was very cheap and cleans easily - and of course there's no observable reaction between metal and ingredients. Hmmm. Linkwood meets preserving pan? When are you in? Microwave jam is really good, but you can only make so much at a time. I can make even less as I broke the turntable in the microwave. :-) I've never tried it - only recently bought a microwave - but the amounts would make it inefficient. Yes, it doesn't sound very efficient, but when you consider that you only cook it for minutes, it takes on a whole new attractiveness. Freezer jam is even more efficient... And excellent for strawberries. Since I can't grow strawberries and won't buy them any more that's just a memory. Mary |
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