Had poached egg on home made bread with fried puffball Saturday morning. It may not have been magic mushroom but it's a super tasty fungus.
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Foraging. It's that time of year!
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Posted 9 months ago #
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Just mentioned to the kids today we'll have to go and pick some Blackberries and Apples again for pies and crumbles. Maybe Thusrday afternoon if I'm done at work in good time.
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hedge porn?
Harvests have been in decline since the early 1990s.
Probably something to do with global warming or the Tories.
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Been on to the local hills and picked about 2kg worth of blackberries and few wild raspberries plus a good crop of different apples.
Made 3 Apple and Blackberry cakes and 4 Apple and Blackberry crumbles over the past week or 2.
Also frozen loads for future use. Will be heading up again over the next few days as more ripen.
Not bothered with the sloes this year. The red elderberries are just about ready so will pick some of them too to make syrup.
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Magic mushrooms out yet?
found a couple of these which are rather more fun than liberties as long as you know what you are doing*
*By this I mean A: know how to correctly identify them and B: know how to correctly and safely work out a dose with a margin of error to allow for variance in the strength of the mushroom
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@ Stoner, I wouldn't bottle it yet, you'll just end up with a load of sludge in the bottom of your bottles.
After you've put the crushed campden tablet in, swirl the jar around for a couple of minutes, you need to get rid of the excess gas.
Put your bung and airlock back in, then put it somewhere cool and dark.
Once every day take the bung out and swirl about again, after 3 or 4 days, leave it alone until you can see the sediment sinking down.
After a week or so, syphon (rack) off into a clean jar, repeat until clear.HTH.
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This is a very middle-aged thread. Do you also have those bellies that swell out your nice 'factory' mtb clobber? Come on. Oh god. How many of you are cycling in white training shoes?
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You're trying a bit too hard van cough cough.
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How many of you are cycling in white training shoes?
I wear red patent Sidis but them I'm fast enough to get away with it and good friends with Dorothy
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After some of those Tazzy I'm good friends with Dorothy too
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Graeme - cheers for that. Was going to ask you whether I should dose with pectolase to clear?
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Pectolase will help, but it's more effective if you put it in at the start of fermentation, no problem though!If you can, get some Potassium Sorbate to add in with the Campden Tablets, all these together should have the wine clearing off without the need for any finings of any sort.
Good luck!
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Middle aged!!
Cheeky, I'm 20.
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Plum jam, plum vodka and blackberry vodka so far still got more plums and apples for chutney then hopefully off to pick more blackberrys and sloes at the weekend.
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Is there an easy way to make Bramble jam.
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does of pectolase went in at the beginning. was just wondering if a second does after the campden tabs was a good idea. will have a go.
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How to pick very high fruit. 1 long stick to suit. 1 2 litre pop bottle. Cut bottom off bottle and jam the neck on the stick. Ensure that no sharp bit sticks through or pad it with news paper. Put under fruit and push. Instant un damaged fruit.
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Now is the time to harvest. Bloody blackberries everywhere . we still have wild strawberries running riot ii the garden. Am fighting the squirels for nuts in the garden but if they get too pushy a 12 bore means squirel pie. Nice on a BBQ. Rose hips and crab apples from the woods make nice jam and wine. The maize is nearly ready. 1 or 2 cobs from the 30 acre field are not missed. The deer season has started try asking around! Or road kill! A nice sized deer was lieing by the road on the way home to night. The mess on the road was still steaming but I was beaten to it. this time of year is good for swaps as well eg spuds for honey etc. Best deal yet was 1 pound of strong cheddar recieved in exchange for 2 dead squirels.
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Another lot won't hurt, but the first dose should have sorted the job out. Sorry for the tardiness of my reply, but I'm at work now.
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With it getting colder they become less common so last weekend I made a huge dog shit carrier bag
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We did a load of Damson picking yesterday whilst out on one of our fave walks in the S'Downs...
Jammin, Jammin, hope you like Jammin too..
But MrsBouy insists it's too early to pick the Sloe Berrys. I've never done Sloe anything (except riding, hardy harr harr) SHe's quite adamant (no not Prince Charming) that you shouldn't pick these fellas until the first frost..
D'oth she speak the trutheth or d'oth lies spew from her mouth??
Do tell..
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Just had a fantastic foraging start to the day - found 3 perfect, huge parasol mushrooms and picked a load of blackberries ... So it'll be wild mushroom risotto and blackberry crumble for dinner tonight
Posted 8 months ago # -
Made my first batch of Damson jam this week. Damsons not quite as ripe as could be which made for a lovely jam with a really nice balance of bite and sweetness. The kids and I have a spot where no one else seems to pick them. Waiting for the greengages to be read also - although we normally eat these before getting home as they as sooooo nice.
Went camping in Malham a couple of days ago too and the farmhouse that we stayed in the garden of had loads of plum trees, the owner kept telling us to help ourselves.
I love the satisfaction that you get from 'natures larder'.
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I did loads of Mirabelles and wild plums, just made jam and wild plum crumble.
We get hazlenuts here, but they dissapear overnite...frickin wildlife.Do I need to check for Sloes now?
I can also find lots of giant puffballs? massive things like footballs, but I don't like the taste.
Posted 8 months ago # -
16 jars of Jam
4 jars of Chutney
Posted 8 months ago # -
good work lass.
My neighbour and I have just finished pressing another 5 gallons of perry.
This season we have between us, made:
70 bottles of apple juice (pasteurised, so will keep for a year or so)
20 gallons of cider
8 gallons of perry
2 gallons of damson & elderberry wine
2 gallons of plum wine.*hic*
Posted 8 months ago # -
Party at yours then Stoner?
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not for 3 months till its all come on in the bottle/barrel.
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Someone left a tub of sloes on my doorstep last week.
Which was nice.
No idea who though, so I'm hoping there not spiked with poison
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Wow impressive stuff guys!
Posted 8 months ago # -
nom. Just finished my 4th parasol mushroom breakfast in five days.
I love this time of the year, and living on the common.
Perfect timing, cycling back from dropping Jr off at school in the morning, peering across the common between the cows and spying a parasol. Pluck it out and straight in the pan 5 minutes later.Washed down with homemade apple juice.
Doesnt get better
*buurrrrprpppp*
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Blackberries seem to be a poor harvest in the north west this year, not nearly as good as last year. Got 5 carrier bags full of apples yesterday though - make amazing apple juice!
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We've had two seasons of fruit this year. One in Hants where early ripening brought us the first crop of Damsons for Jam, then last week we spent our time in Harrogate where the season there is still running on, so we had another bumper crop.
So far we've made masses of Damson Jam, bottles and bottles of Elderberry Cordial and a small mountain of Apple Pies.
Yum Yum.
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Our bramble harvest as been not that great either, took us a good couple of hours to get enough for the 6 jars we made last night.
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Picked a kg of blackberries the other night, collected another kilo of crab apples from the garden and have a load of rowan berries too. In two minds about whether to try anything with the rowans, from what I've read the seem to be a bit marmite.
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