My journey into Preserving
I suppose really bottling and preserving of any sort is one of my passions alongside anything to do with food of any type. I started preserving in my own right when I first got married at the tender age of 19 years (quite a few years ago!). If I remember rightly it started with a passion for home made pickled onions and apple chutney. My journey into preserving was. in many respects a continuation of a process that had been going on year in year out since I was knee high to a gnat. A task that marked the passing of time and of the different seasons. There was a choice, to live well or live not so well and my grandparents out of necessity working the land meant that the food they had was good and unadulterated and that they fed their family well (and others) during difficult times. We used to mark the seasons by the different activities and indeed we used to look forward to them as it was a way of celebrating the seasons and a time when we worked as a family i...