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TIPS & TRICKS

Here are my resources, the hints and tips to help you with your preserving dilemmas and cooking conversion tables too.

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My Preserving Kit

These are the items I would recommend for using in your preserving, there is everything from preserving pans to thermometers and jars too. Please note there are affiliate links to Amazon.

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Cooking Conversion Tables

Want to know your Fahrenheit to celsius, your metric to imperial and other kitchen measurements too, they’re all here.

types of preserves

Types Of Preserves

Preserves come in all shapes and sizes, from simple single fruit jams to crystal clear jellies and tangy chutneys. Here’s a list to get you started on your preserving journey to a larder full of tasty goodness.

how to make great jam

How To Make Great Jam

All you need to know to take you from zero to here in the word of jam making. You will never buy store bought jam again.

how to make great jelly

How To Make Great Jelly

Jelly This is different from jam making, but not difficult, there is just a wee bit of patience involved.

how to make fruit curds

How To Make Cool Curds

Fruit curds are delicious and easy to make. They don’t keep anywhere near as long as other preserves but are well worth making for toast, filling cakes and dolloping on desserts too.

how to make chutney and relish

How To Make Chutney And Relish

Oh the fun of filling the house with the spicy smells of homemade chutney. This is slow and easy work with none of the fear involved in the magical setting point of jams and jellies.

how to sterilise jars

How To Sterilise Jars

Now this one is really important folks. No preserve is worth its salt (or sugar for that matter) if the jars and bottles you use aren’t properly sterilised in the first place.

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Sticky Situations

The troubleshooting section – How to deal with those preserving cock-ups that happen to all of us. Jam won’t set, jelly goes rock hard and so much more. Believe me I’ve done them all.

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