The diary of two novice gardeners and chicken keepers
Posted in Cooking on Oct 28th, 2011
This was my first attempt at Pear Jam. Its a cobbled together version of the recipe I do for all my jams. I used two pound of pears which had been peeled, cored and cut up into chunks; I large lemon; one pound of preserving sugar and some water. I put the pears into a pan [...]
Posted in Allotments on Oct 28th, 2011
I have completed harvesting the pears from the garden this morning. This tree had no fruit at all last year but this season has been great with lovely blossom in the spring and loads of fruit. I understand that these pears keep well but I shall be having a look at how I can use [...]
