Pattypan's Pantry Projects - Long Keeping Mint Sauce, Mint Vinegar and Mint Butter
During the summer months I love to grow fresh herbs and then put them up in various formats. One of the yearly makes for me is making the most of the mint harvest. OH is mad about mint sauce and eats it with everything therefore I make as much as I can for the pantry shelf. It is lovely to have something on the pantry shelf that you have grown and then turned into a shelf preserve. It tastes good too. If you grow your own mint and it takes over then the long keeping mint sauce, mint vinegar and mint butter are all good ways of using up this precious herb which can be a bit of a thug. Long Keeping Mint Sauce First of all you need to cut a good couple of bunches of your mint out of the garden. Wash the mint and then dry with a tea towel. Take the leaves off the stem until all the mint leaves have been removed. You only need to use the mint leaves for these preserves but you can set aside the mint stalks and let them dry out and use them in k...