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Joined: September 21st, 2012

Rustic Italian loaf from Canadian living breads and pizzas

This has a very wet dough and due to this I use the bread machine on the dough cycle, stopping the cycle just before it kneads the dough down. After this it’s fairly easy (use lots of flour on work surface)... read more >

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The River Cottage Preserves Handbook

By Pam Corbin, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
Ten Speed Press - 2010

If you have a lot of apple cores and peels, or a crop of crab apples, this is a nice way to use them. I go a bit lighter on the citrus peel, resulting in a milder flavour.

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Really great recipe for piccalilli. It tastes good when first made, but improves and mellows after a few weeks. A good way to use cauliflower and beans for the garden. I usually make a bit less than 1 kg of veg and keep the sauce at the same amount and it's just right.

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This is one of my favourite pickles. I started making it when I had a glut of fennel from the garden and now I grow fennel specially for this recipe. It's mild in flavour with hints of the lemon and black pepper. Very easy to make, keeps forever in the fridge.

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I grew a lot of garlic this year, so I decided to try this pickle with a few heads. I made a half recipe; note that the liquid portion wasn’t enough to cover, possibly due to the jars I used and the size of the cloves. Used bay and fennel seed from the garden too. Will update this in a few weeks when it’s had time to mature.

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Great jam and very easy to make. I will omit the pits next time as I don't think they added anything. Could add a bit of almond extract as desired.

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