How to make Simple Blackberry Gin This simple blackberry gin recipe uses just three ingredients and is perfect for late summer cocktails or stored for a Christmas tipple. Also includes advice for growing your own blackberries in the home garden. Across the country, the hedgerows are bursting with an abundance of blackberries. Harvested between August and Mid-October, blackberries grow wild…
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How to Make Grandma’s Dill Pickles How to make classic homemade dill pickles using fresh cucumbers, dill, spices, and brine. This recipe follows a simple hot water bath method. Dill Pickles, they’re evocative of my childhood and weekends at Nana’s house. Each summer my grandmother would carry out the ritual of preserving the garden surplus and of everything she made,…
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A different kind of walled garden A tour of a prison vegetable garden, a look at how the produce is used to feed inmates, & how the program is used in the prison’s resettlement program Some years ago I was wandering around a small horticultural show when I heard something unusual. It was a woman saying to another that the…
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Crispy & Sweet Funnel Cake with Edible Flowers Recipe for sweet & crispy funnel cake made with calendula flowers and honey. The batter is drizzled through a funnel and deep fried into puffy deliciousness It’s been years since I had Funnel Cake. It’s one of those dishes that goes hand in hand with a holiday or event – in this…
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Handmade soap needs to ‘Cure’ before you use it Tips on how to cure handmade soap and ideas for storing it. Curing is the process of allowing saponification to complete and for the soap to fully dry. It takes about a month. When making handmade soap you need to allow it to cure before using it. Contrary to what other…
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