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Absolutely. I have a family member who does that. It goes straight in the bin. What on earth is a ‘goose berry’ anyhow?
Why do you think geese waddle? They've had their berries harvested.
mmmmm, blackcurrant and elderberry jam, mmmm.
(Small batch artisanal, natch)
mmmmm, blackcurrant and elderberry jam, mmmm.
(Small batch artisanal, natch)
Yeah, we can all buy Lidl jam and rip the labels off. 😀
They make excellent presents as well
Nothing quite like home made jam says "Here, I don't think much of you at all"
Here is something I cooked up on the stove using all the same ingredients put in exactly the same jar...As you would've got if I'd have spent all of £1.50 down the supermarket to buy you...a jar of jam 🤣
I can't talk though, I make batches of Xmas Pud for the same reason!
Now I know this is me being peculiar, but I won't eat homemade jam/marmalade etc. bought from village fetes and the like.
My wife thinks I'm a weird bugger - but how do I know loveable granny Edith wasn't picking her nose and scratching her arse then dipping her finger in the jam to taste? All the while her dozen cats merrily walk all over the worktops. And using her donkeys years old jam making pot that hasn't been cleaned properly in years.
There's a reason food-hygiene laws were created! 🤣
Now I know this is me being peculiar, but I won’t eat homemade jam/marmalade etc. bought from village fetes and the like.
My wife thinks I’m a weird bugger – but how do I know loveable granny Edith wasn’t picking her nose and scratching her arse then dipping her finger in the jam to taste? All the while her dozen cats merrily walk all over the worktops. And using her donkeys years old jam making pot that hasn’t been cleaned properly in years.
There’s a reason food-hygiene laws were created! 🤣
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I used to visit my old nan and she used to offer me homemade stuff and I'd sneak out to the shop for something in a packet. How do I know the thing she was offering me wasn't already full of mould and cat-hair when she put it in her freezer in the 50's? Gives me the dry-heaves.
But then I'll happily eat restaurant food and I've worked and seen what goes on in even the most upmarket of establishments... weird.
Now I know this is me being peculiar, but I won’t eat homemade jam/marmalade etc. bought from village fetes and the like.
My wife thinks I’m a weird bugger – but how do I know loveable granny Edith wasn’t picking her nose and scratching her arse then dipping her finger in the jam to taste? All the while her dozen cats merrily walk all over the worktops. And using her donkeys years old jam making pot that hasn’t been cleaned properly in years.
There’s a reason food-hygiene laws were created! 🤣
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Whatever you do, never visit a food factory. You'll starve to death after the visit.
Whatever you do, never visit a food factory. You’ll starve to death after the visit.
As a student some friends worked in a food processing place (South Milford nr Leeds IIRC) on the night shifts - they used to dare each other to put the most revolting things they could think of into the big vats of animal bits that were being processed to make pork pie fillings etc. How on earth I will still eat that sort of stuff I will never really know.
All the while her dozen cats merrily walk all over the worktops.
That's fine I would be sharing the jam with them anyway....
Bertie waits by the toaster every morning and then licks the peanut butter off my toast whilst I'm eating in...
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Sorry but that is disgusting.
Don't get jam, high calorific sugar dressing for bread 🙂
TBH I got mrs DOD into Lidl the usual shop was M@S who were actually surprisingly reasonable if you didn't go mad.
Wasn't a money we thing we just found we actually liked a lot of stuff from there, carnation coleslaw(yum yum).
In spain I tend to buy a lot of hacendando own brand stuff, the greek youghart is lush with a sprinkling of choc chips and oat granola from Spanish co-op.
I do miss a lot of the M@S meals, over here they expect you to cook stuff.
Course when I finally do come back over I'm going to be in a state of shock over the prices of everything 🙂
Ooh wholeEarth PB, I love that on bagels and oddly I have one here must be a Spanish delicacy as its from the boggo Spanish shop 🙂
Ahh it's also turron time in the shops they are lush,part of the whole Caga Tio Christmas present log pooping thing, which the Catalan bit does but every one else seems to like the turron bit.
I used to get the Lidl Tureens they do as part of Spanish week now I'm absolutely overwhelmed by choice.
but how do I know loveable granny Edith wasn’t picking her nose and scratching her arse then dipping her finger in the jam to taste? All the while her dozen cats merrily walk all over the worktops. And using her donkeys years old jam making pot that hasn’t been cleaned properly in years.
The whole point of jam is that you've boiled it upto ~110C, granny Ediths bum boogers and cat hair protein have long since denatured into nothing.
And even the WI now requires yo to have a food hygiene qualification before selling stuff.
Do you also describe beer as moldy barley water?
Do you also describe beer as moldy barley water?
...I'm sure I've seen that description on the tasting notes at a Beer festival! 🙂
Nice jam up there ^^^
Gooseberry jam is definitely the best and not often in the shops so home made or none.
Most people with fruit gluts that I know have council allotments.
I don't recommend marrow jam which I made once from a donated one.
I am fortunate to have fruit trees and allotment space so plenty of jam and buckets of cooking apples currently being processed and distributed.
I do make jam.
Chutney is definitely my favourite.
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The whole point of jam is that you’ve boiled it upto ~110C, granny Ediths bum boogers and cat hair protein have long since denatured into nothing.
Yep I'd also add the sugar acts as a preservative sort of possibility of it lasting a fair old few years.
Probably the original purpose of jam was to preserve all that fruit for later in the year/s as opposed to slathering over scones.
Probably the original purpose of jam was to preserve all that fruit for later in the year/s as opposed to slathering over scones.
Always surprised when you see mould in the jam jar (after leaving in the fridge for several years). I assumed the high % sugar was supposed to stop it - but maybe just slows it down a bit.....
Not as interesting as the diy condoms they made out of pigs intestines thou 🙂
Sorry but that is disgusting.
Just for you then, one of our other cats shares my cereal - he has a thing for Allbran...
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TBH I do let my dogs lick the bowl after I've had greek Yoghurt, but i'd not be happy with them tucking in with me.
Oddly they really like yoghurt, its not something I'd think a dog would go for but they do.
Manuka Honey in Holland and Barret is £60. Beat that.
but i’d not be happy with them tucking in with me
I figure it's probably quite good for the immune system, keeps it fully primed against feline viruses....
I sell jam - £1.89 for the cheap stuff, £3.99 for the (very) locally produced stuff.
I've never bought a Jesus. How much do they go for these days?
Always surprised when you see mould in the jam jar (after leaving in the fridge for several years). I assumed the high % sugar was supposed to stop it
AFAIK it's crumbs and stuff on the jam that go mouldy not the jam itself?
Or maybe we've bred sugar-resistant mould over the years of jam-making.
They make excellent presents as well, further saving.
Christmas morning in the houses of MOAB's rellies...
"Ooo goody, from Uncle Matt..."
"Smashing. Whatyagot?"
"Oh no, it's that shit jam again! Why does Uncle Matt hate me...etc?" - runs upstairs in tears and spends Christmas Day sobbing into a pillow - again...
-The End-
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Well it's not all doom and gloom. Cauliflowers at the greengrocer were 25% cheaper than two weeks ago and very nice looking.
Why is butter so unbelievably expensive now? It seems like it’s increased in price by about 8000%
Christmas morning in the houses of MOAB’s rellies…
“Ooo goody, from Uncle Matt…”
“Smashing. Whatyagot?”
“Oh no, it’s that shit jam again! Why does Uncle Matt hate me…etc?” – runs upstairs in tears and spends Christmas Day sobbing into a pillow – again…-The End-
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Butter, yes and cheese. Afaik its not massively reliant on energy. The cows eat the same grass, wander around for a day, generate a few gallons of milk
Wang it in a vat, stir it abit, then wait. And hey presto... . Cheese
Beer in bottles is pretty much unchanged and brewing and glass production are both energy hungry processes.
Barley and wheat price is very high too, i suppose the drought reduced grass production and the farmers are having to feed wheat, which has doubles in price
Yeah grass grows far more slowly in dry weather. Milk yield probably down.
Inspired by this thread I went to Waitrose to source jam. I chose a brand boldly labelled ‘Super Jam’ - blueberry & blackcurrant. It’s alright, don’t be fooled by the £2 price though, the jar is tiny.
has anyone seen the price of Nutella recently
Our household expert has switched to the Aldi equivalent and professes that it is as good a taste. (Also unlikely to have dodgy palm oil products in it).
The cows eat the same grass, wander around for a day, generate a few gallons of milk
Pretty sure dairy farms use fertiliser to increase the grass yield...
Inspired by this thread I went to Waitrose to source jam. I chose a brand boldly labelled ‘Super Jam’ – blueberry & blackcurrant. It’s alright, don’t be fooled by the £2 price though, the jar is tiny.
Why would you choose that one? Others are much cheaper per 100g and it's not really jam.
Because it was called SUPER JAM. As I said: that's a bold claim. I'm not bothered about cheap. If I'm looking to save money I'll just not buy jam rather than cheap jam. Anyway, why is it not jam? Looked like jam, tasted like jam?
Because 'super iam' is not real jam.
Real jam is roughly half fruit half sugar and the pectin in the fruit makes it set*.
Super jam uses fruit concentrates instead of sugar in the claim that it is healthier. Looking at the ingredients it includes added fruit pectins to so potentially even more processed than normal jam.
There is enough pectin in fruit for jam to set without adding it.
Like all low sugar 'jams' you have to keep super jam in the fridge to stop it going mouldy. Real jam lasts months in the cupboard after opening unless you leave a load of crumbs or butter smears in it.
* Strawberry jam is 4 fruit to 3 sugar by weight and you add lemon juice to encourage the pectin out. Plum jam is often slightly greater fruit ratio too as the fruit has more sugar in it. Berries normally 1:1 (pedants know that Strawberries aren't actually berries).
P.S. if you're concerned about the sugar content of jam don't even think about marmalade.
Thank God for Brexit I say ! Imagine how it'd be without all the benefits it has brought .. just like Boris/ farage and Rees Mogg promised and thankfully were able to persuade to the mass of empty head voters / cap doffers etc to take us out and save the country.
Because ‘super iam’ is not real jam.
Real jam is roughly half fruit half sugar and the pectin in the fruit makes it set*.
Super jam uses fruit concentrates instead of sugar in the claim that it is healthier. Looking at the ingredients it includes added fruit pectins to so potentially even more processed than normal jam.
There is enough pectin in fruit for jam to set without adding it.
Like all low sugar ‘jams’ you have to keep super jam in the fridge to stop it going mouldy. Real jam lasts months in the cupboard after opening unless you leave a load of crumbs or butter smears in it.
* Strawberry jam is 4 fruit to 3 sugar by weight and you add lemon juice to encourage the pectin out. Plum jam is often slightly greater fruit ratio too as the fruit has more sugar in it. Berries normally 1:1 (pedants know that Strawberries aren’t actually berries).
P.S. if you’re concerned about the sugar content of jam don’t even think about marmalade.
Right. Thanks for that. I had no idea SUPER JAM was just a façade for healthy. If I knew it was healthy/reduced anything I would never have bought it. I'd never heard of the brand and naturally assumed SUPER JAM would be like normal jam but with MORE sugar and MORE fruit.
I feel like I've been had... duped if you will. Now I know it's healthy jam it's going to taste horrible isn't it. I'm phoning the police in the morning.
to make my own jam I would have to invest significant time - and I charge a high hourly rate for my free time.
Only now as we have a garden and know how much jam we make have we planted trees and bushes to supply our habit.
Aka Tom and Barbera Good, circa ‘75 🙂
I did think about making jam from this year's rhubarb, but decided to make wine instead.
P.S. if you’re concerned about the sugar content of jam don’t even think about marmalade.
TBH I was actually thinking of marmalade sandwiches as biking fuel.
Probably want to be cut into bite size chunks.
It's fine, we all need to take up game hunting to save money according to the telegraph
