Tag Archives: pears

Memory Lane, 11th October 2022: Pears going bananas

Posted on March 20, 2024 by james

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

Posted on November 11, 2021 by james

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

Posted on November 11, 2021 by james

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

Posted on September 29, 2021 by james

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!)

Posted on November 10, 2019 by james

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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