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Marmalade Recipe: The Lumpy One
The Lumpy One Ingredients: 1.4kg (3lb) oranges, washed Juice of 2 lemons 3.4 litres (6 pints) Water 2.7kg (6lb) sugar What You Will Need: Preserving pan (or very large saucepan), wooden spoon, muslin...
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Marmalade Recipe: The Stringy One
If I’ve done this correctly, there is a strong possibility that you have arrived on this page by following a link from the “La Señora de las Mermeladas” post. If not, you may be slightly confused and...
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La Señora de las Mermeladas
How I imagine the conversation went: “You know the one I mean, the foreigner” “Who? The German?” “I don’t think she’s German” “She must be – blue eyes, blonde hair – speaks Spanish with a weird accent”...
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“Life is just a bowl of cherries”
I finally gave in this morning. I bought my first punnet (this season) of Picota Cherries from the fruteria in the village. They were still hellish expensive (nearly €3 a kilo), but I could no longer...
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Apricot Jam
We’ve had our apricot tree for about four years, now. It blossoms every year, but this is the first year that we’ve had enough fruit from it for me to make apricot jam: What you’ll need: a very large...
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CSI: Extremadura
That’s Cherry Spatter Indicator, by the way, nothing to do with crime scenes; although you must admit, the photos would seem to indicate the latter. Cherry season is in full swing all over Spain and...
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Beasties
Ah, Summer! At last it’s arrived – as I sit watching the rain battering against the windows. The long, warm, evenings (after the rain has gone) spent sitting on the terrace can, however, be quite...
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Bootleg Baileys Chocolate Shots
A few weeks ago I posted this to my Facebook timeline: I didn’t really know what was going to happen, but I knew it was going to be a lot of fun! Last year, I shared with you my recipe for Bootleg...
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Bursting Bubbles
“So, What happens with the balloons?” – A little teaser I used to finish my previous post. The short (and correct, in my ever-so-humble opinion) answer is: Throw them in the bin. Here’s why: After the...
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Stone Free (A Plum Jam Recipe)
Plum jam. It was the first jam that I made. It was a steep learning curve, too, as Phil’s blog entries at the time suggest: 24 June 2008 That’ll Teach Me… … to open my big mouth. Just a couple of...
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