Tag Archives: pears

It seems pears don’t stick

to the inside of the press cloth like apples do 😀 I had another test of the settling “tank” with the pear juice too. This is the sediment from about forty litres of juice… And the pear juice, with apple … Continue reading

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A culinary masterpiece!

I found some left-over bacon in the fridge, so decided to have bacon sandwiches for lunch. Whilst I was frying the bacon in a pan (the grill is too much effort for a few slices of bacon :D), I happened … Continue reading

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Memory Lane, 11th October 2022: Pears going bananas

To prevent losses to the chickens (there have already been a few), today I picked all the remaining pears from the tree in their run (Concorde is the variety as far as I recall). Now I just have to work … Continue reading

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Apple and pear slices again

When the apples and pears were done in the dehydrator I took a few slices for a test drive. The Ashmead’s Kernel tasted pretty much how you’d expect, I guess. The Bramley was clearly apple, but with an obvious sharpness … Continue reading

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Apple and pear slices

I liberated about a dozen of the Ashmead’s Kernel this evening, broke out the peeler/corer/slicer machine and filled five dehydrator trays with apple slices. Then I started looking at the large numbers of pears sitting in the kitchen waiting for … Continue reading

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First fruit leather of the season

Since I can’t progress with extracting honey any further, we have “melted down” some of our pears and plums (separately) and put them in the dehydrator to make fruit leathers. We’ve done apple before, but I feel the need to … Continue reading

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Sloe, sloe, prick, scratch, sloe (ouch!)

I spent an hour or so this afternoon exploring the hedgerows and collecting sloes. It’s a job I’ve put off for a couple of weeks waiting for the rain to stop and the days to turn colder. It seems the … Continue reading

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