We were due at a Transition Town film meeting on Saturday afternoon, with tea and cake afterwards, so I baked muffins in the morning: I had some brown bananas, and a couple of rather tired clementines, so did a dozen each of clementine and poppyseed, and banana and bran flake. We were greedy, and kept…
Tag: winemaking
baking and winemaking weekend
Sorted out some wine – filtered and bottled one gallon of parsnip, although the other one went cloudy again, racked the three gallons of rhubarb (which was really 2.5 gallons and racked down to 2 + a bottle), racked the two gallons of apricot and stopped the fermentation, made a gallon of Earl Grey just…
I've got to try this – teabag wine!
8 x fruit teabags of choice, 1kg sugar, 1 teaspoon yeast, 1 teaspoon nutrient, 2tsps lemon juice. Pour boiling water onto teabags and sugar in a large jug and leave until lukewarm. Discard bags and pour liquid into a demijohn. Top up with water to the ‘shoulder’ of the demijohn. Add yeast and nutrient. Fit…
I have a wine filter kit!
A friend who used to do a lot of home winemaking told me that I should get a filter kit to “polish” my wine. They’re not cheap cheap (about £22 or so with carriage), so I trawled eBay and found somebody selling his father’s old Boots kit. I offered him £8 including postage, and a…
reactive winemaking!
I’m getting the hang of this winemaking lark now, and I’m much more confident than I used to be. We did our monthly trip to Makro on Saturday (first time the car had been out for a fortnight!), and they had a 5kg bag of carrots reduced to £2.30. “Wine!”, I thought, and bore…
season of mists and mellow fruitfulness …
A friend was selling Bramleys from her garden at £0.15 per lb, in aid of the local LibDems. I said I’d take 6kgs, and she delivered them yesterday, and threw in a bag of windfalls. I was amused to see the apples delivered in a Louis Vuitton bag – a less Vuitton woman than Deborah…