recipes

The biggest pumpkin now measures 39" round and still growing! and four smaller ones about half that size so am very soon going to be making apple and pumpkin crumble, Dalbuie.


Also heard you can make pumpkin jam - any recipes please?

 

Jjordie I am sorry missed your message:

Try this for a Tomatoe sauce from my gran (heinz eat your heart out - this is the real stuff) ate it as a child, and it tastes the same as an adult.

6 lbs tomatoes washed and cut
2 large onions cut up
4 tablespoons sugar
4 bay leaves
1 desert spoon all spice
1 dessert spoon of pepper corns
1 desert spoon salt
1 pint of vinegar
Few sprigs of parsley

Boil the lot for at least an hour, strain thooughtly. Add a litte cornflour, and boil up again if not thick enough

Sweet chutney

1 lb apples - chopped
1 lb of onions - chopped
1/2 lb tomatoes - chopped
1/2 lb of brown sugar (slightly less)
1 lb of dates - sliced
1/2 pint of vinegar

Boil all together until soft - make 4 1 lb jam jars. Sultanas can be used in place of dates

Fran

[ 13. September 2005, 08:49 PM: Message edited by: Fran ]

 

jjordie I don't have a recipe for pumpkin jam but I do have one for pumpkin marmalade.Your pumpkins sound like they are growing great :D

 

Thanks for Tomato Sauce recipe Fran, hope to try that as we seem to have plenty of tomatoes.
And Dalbuie, willing to try any new recipes thanks.

 

Any one know what to do with medlars, I've found a small tree that was loaded last year and believe it or not nobody picks them, I wounder why?

 

pete2255 you could stew the fruit, let it go cold mix with some whipped cream add some sugar to your own taste and you have a lovely mousse

 

Thats an idea, but its an oldfashioned fruit, I thought there would be loads of victorian recipes to choose from. :D

 

Try this- http//www.historicfood.com/recipesindex.htm it had a interesting one there,I had not heard of them before but they sound interesting, so I had a browse and they seem to belong to the quince family but you probably already know that. Happy cooking! :D

 

YEEESSS, not exactly the flavour of the month are they, so I've got to let them start to rot before they're edibile. :eek:
Think I might just let them stay on the tree for the birds. :D

 

Yes I think that they are an aquired taste

 

I buy half coconut shells filled with what looks like fat of some kind mixed with seeds etc, for the birds in the garden. I now have lots of empty shells.
Anyone got a recipe for the mixture to replace the filling.
Birds are mostly blackbirds (they come to the kitchen windowsill every morning for their sultanas) robins, and little sparrows.

 

Try having a look at www.gardenbird.com. They sell half coconuts, but handily tell you that each contains 300g of high energy suet mixed with seeds and nuts. I think their code for half coconuts is NV01

 

Jjordie
If you can wait a bit longer, my neighbour, a bona fide, happy-clappy, god fearin' Texan, is going to pass me her recipe for pumpkin pie - and having tasted it on numerous occasions, it's worth waiting for. Will post it as soon as I get it.

 

Yes please Sewer Rat

 

Hi Jjordie
Still waiting for the pumpkin pie recipe - thought I better let you know I hadn't forgotten - will try and catch up with my neighbour some night this week. How are your pumpkins doing ?
Rat