Another Preserving book

Most of you will realise by now that I am a bit passionate about food, and preserving and that I have a stash of very useful preserve books.  Many are second hand and some from the States.  Wherever possible I pay the cheapest price possible.  

I have a little book (this is my second version of it as the first one fell to pieces) from the Hamlyn Kitchen Library called "Home Preserving and Bottling" by Gladys Mann.    ISBN 0 600 37177 8. This edition was published in 1979.It has a lot of what I call more traditional recipes.  It is sub-sected as follows:

Useful facts and figures.

Introduction.

Jam and Jelly Making.

Recipes for Raspberry Jam, Raspberry and Apple Jam,Strawberry Jam, Plum and apple jam, Plum and elderberry jam, Plum or Greengage jam, Cherry and gooseberry jam, Gooseberry cheese, Damson cheese, Blackcurrant and apple jam, apple and apricot jam, Apple and fig jam, Blackberry and Apple jam, green tomato and apple jam, Apple and marrow marmalade, marrow preserve, pear and marrow ginger, pear, pineapple and lemon jam, pear and apricot jam, pear and apricot deluxe preserve, apricot butter, sage and apple butter, apple and cinnamon butter, rhubarb and loganberry jam, spring rhubarb and carrot conserve, pumpkin and apricot jam, bramble and apple jelly, apple jelly, spiced rowan jelly, grape jelly, clear mint jelly, apple ginger, lemon curd, apple and raspberry curd, tangerine jelly and tangerine conserve, apple slices ibn wine and lemon syrup mincemeat, spiced pear mincemeat, marrons glace glazed sweet chestnuts, home made candied peel, rose petal conserve.

Marmalade.

Olde English Breakfast marmalade, Old English Marmalade, Seville orange marmalade, jelly marmalade, lemon marmalade, four fruit marmalade, Tomato marmalade,

Fruit preserving and syrups.

Preserved bottled cherries, preserved bottled apricots, Peaches, sliced peaches, preserved bottled apples or pears, Bottled Gooseberries, Bottled Tomatoes, Bottled fruit salad, preserved honey fruit compote.  Pear sections in almond syrup, pear preserves, preserved apple pulp, tomato pulp, fruit syrups. syrup/sauce , almond syrup, Baba syrup, blackcurrant syrup, chocolate syrup, cranberry syrup, ginger syrup, lemon syrup, maple syrup, pineapple syrup, Trifle syrup, apple syrup, blackcurrant syrup, elderberry syrup, blackberry syrup, strawberry syrup.

Pickles, chutneys and relishes.

Standard spiced vinegar, clear mixed pickles, pickled cabbage, crisp pickled onions or shallots, sweet pickled onions, sweet spiced pickled cucumber, picked ridge cucumbers,  my special piccalilli, chow chow (Chinese piccalilli, mustarde sweet pickle, apple and cucumber pickle, pickled mushrooms, corn pickle, tomato and apple pickle, corn relish, spiced cherries, peppered apple rings, sweet spiced apple pieces, pickled plums, spiced plums, spiced grapes, spiced orange slices, spiced peaches or pears, pears in heavy syrup, pear and orange slices in liqueur, marrow and apple chutney, apple and tomato chutney, spicy apple chutney, Norwich apple chutney, apple and mint chutney, apple mint jelly, apple and red pepper chutney, apple and prune chutney, gooseberry chutney, dried fruit chutney, orange chutney, Australian sweet chutney, orange and apricot chutney, sweet pickle or chutney, Indian chutney, lemon chutney, pear , date and nut chutney, country garden chutney, green tomato chutney, ripe tomato chutney, tomato sauce, spiced tomato relish, tomato ketchup, elderberry ketchup, blackberry relish, thick fruit sauce, spicy brown sauce, mint sauce for keeping, spiced eggs, herb vinegars, mint vinegar, preserving eggs in water-glass,  

Home curing, salting and drying.

Cures for meat including Wiltshire, Suffolk sweet cure, Derbyshire cure, preserving by salting and drying  - salting beans, storing nuts in salt, salted almonds, dried plums, dried apricots, dried peaches, dried apple ringsm dried pears, dried herbs, dried onion rings, dried peas, dried beans, dried mushrooms, 

Home made wines and Beers.

Apple wine, apple and bilberry wine, rhubarb wine, blackcurrant wine, elderberry wine, gooseberry wine, plum or damson wine, parsnip wine, grape wine, black grape wine, ginger wine, dandelion wine, marigold wine, beetroot wine, potato wine, elderflower champagne, prune and cherry port, orange or lemon crush, beer, mild ale, hop beer, nettle beer, ginger beer, cider and perry.

Index.

There are quite a few different recipes within this unassuming little paperback book, but it is so useful and one that I have to hand throughout the preserving season.  Mine cost a couple of pennies plus postage from one of the cheapy bookshops.  So it is well worth investing in the same.

Catch you soon.

Pattypan

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