Category: Cooking

  • Turning berries into jam

    Turning berries into jam

    Last year I filled multiple delivery food containers with blackberries and strawberries from the garden, and blackberries from the massive plants that are along the road past the house. Some have been used for blackberry and apple (Bramley) crumble, and the rest got turned into jam today. Simple 1:1 ratio of jam sugar to fruit,…

  • Pandemic baking

    Pandemic baking

    With Ireland going into “don’t go anywhere” mode, and the supermarket shelves bare of flour, I went online looking for flour so that I can bake my own bread. Found a nice site, Kells, and picked up 10 kg of soda bread mix, and 12.5 kg of basic white flour. Should keep me going for…

  • Bajan Sweetbread

    Bajan Sweetbread

    While cleaning out my Google Docs, I found this recipe. Ingredients Dry goods 1 250 g plain white flour 1 tbsp grated nutmeg 1/2 tsp salt Dry goods 2 50 g shortening 50 g margarine Dry goods 3 175 g brown sugar 50 g cherries 50 g raisins 225 g grated fresh coconut (not desiccated)…