Friday, March 23, 2012

Autumn Harvest

A lovely workshop last weekend. Everyone worked really hard, cooked, cleaned, laughed a lot and ate well. I had my rangehood and a nasty kitchen cupboard cleaned by the girls trying out the cleaning properties of lemon...maybe they would do windows this week, or is that pushing my luck?



This weekend we are into a bit more hubble bubble for the second half. An all girls group this time, we will be heating the cauldrons to create hand cream and other treats. There will be more food too.


Here’s a recipe that everyone loved:

Five Minute Lemonade

1 Lemons or 2 limes
50g Sugar

Chop the whole lemon into 1 cm cubes and place in a heatproof jug.
To each lemon add 50g of sugar / rice syrup or honey, adjusting to suit your taste.
Add boiling water to cover, put a plate on top of the jug and leave for 5 minutes.
Process with a blender.
Add  500ml cold water.
Strain through a sieve into a jug half full of ice.
Drink immediately.
 In winter, make this with honey and add hot water and drink while hot.


There is rarely time to take a rest in the garden. In the gap between the workshops the quinces have been thumping to the ground. Massive things that would brain one of the chickens that so generously fertilises it all year, demanding to be rescued from the parrots. Four crates ready for sale and three basketfuls for us...and the figs are coming on too.

Better get back to the kitchen!













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