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February

For January I was after Seville Oranges and other citrus fruit to preserve and put down for the kitchen Pantry. For February I will be after forced rhubarb primarily to bottle and put down into bottles for use in puddings throughout the year.   Rhubarb you say don't like that but its a funny thing.  We were not keen as children  but as we got older it was one of those flavours that we yearned for,  My OH is particularly fond of Rhubarb crumble but I also Rhubarb jam and chutney. Why not freeze it instead - but I do but my main and primary focus for the freezer is meat and veg.  and so if I can store stuff by another method that frees the freezer up I do do. Although I had done some fruit bottling over the years I had never tackled rhubarb before and so did some research on the subject.  I have so far made this rhubarb preserve for two years on the trot as a result of this very excellent tutorial.  However one thing I would menti...