Hurrah!One of the plans we have for our new house is to learn how to preserve/store the produce from the garden, so we're not wasting anything. Although really, we should get our act together before then, because we have a few trees which produce a large crop in a short time frame - lemon tree, fig tree, almond trees.
Watching River Cottage Autumn inspired us this weekend, so Mr Bon had a bit of a lemon cook up. I did my bit by gathering lemons and cleaning up the impressive mess when everything was all bottled :)
Mr Bon did one jar of preserved lemons (with a bay leaf, a clove, and a cinnamon stick), and a huge quantity of lemon cordial. We were limited by storage containers rather than by lemons! We've been drinking quite a lot of the lemon cordial and we also made up some icypoles which'll be nice on a hot day :)
The cordial is delicious.. and I don't think all this fruit will trigger my fructose sensitivity, because all the added caster sugar should balance the fructose out with plenty of glucose - awesome.
3 comments:
wow. look at all those lemoney goodness!! I so want a lemon tree now!!!
Hi Michelle :)
We were really lucky with our lemon tree - it was in the yard before we moved in, and it's a lovely old established tree. No matter what we do to it - or don't do to it - it just keeps producing lemons!
I do need to put a bit more time and effort into pruning it into a more appropriate shape though.
YUM!!
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