Avalus has been making jams and jellies and he’s sent us some photos from the project.
This late summer I set about using the old orchards and hedges around my home. To make marmelades and gelée, to be exact. Here are some things I found while picking fruit
Tasty blackberries! Oddly enough, in German these are called Brombeeren which translates literally to bromine berrys. But the name does not have anything to do with bromine, it goes back to the old high german word brāmberi which means thorny bush and is the root for the word english bramble.
Then there was this beautiful golden beetle, enjoying the sun and an apple at the same time. It did not mind me picking up fallen apples around it.
This hedgehog on the other hand did very much mind my company.
In the end, I made many glasses of yummi sweet stuff with different flavours. Testers favourites were apple-coffee and apple-meade*, apple-cinnamon was deemed too Christmassy for September. Pestering every one I knew for empty glasses really paid off here as I gave most of these full glasses to friends.
*I made meade two years ago and still have some left. Pretty strong taste and not too sweet, but I drink only very little.
Thanks for sharing, Avalus.
Yummy.
I don’t understand the “cinnamon only in December” crowd. I use about a pound of cinnamon all year round.
And here’s a joke just for Avalus:
Wie stellt man Erdbeeren her?
Man nimmt Brombeeren und Erde, das reagiert zu Erdbeeren und Brom
That’s a redox reaction I’ve never heard of.
Hahaha I need to put that in a slide!