Why? Because you can! And pickle, and jam, or otherwise celebrate the resurgence of the domestic arts our forebears held so dear. Put on your best apron and step into our kitchen, won't you?
This spring I picked wild rose petals & leaves to dry for tea & wanted to wait until later in the year to finish the tea with some of the rose hips. So this fall I gathered up a few colanders of rose hips & put them to use in a few different ways.
I have been tomatoes crazy lately! I made a small batch of curried yellow tomato jam, then made a much bigger batch, pureed it and voila! Amazing ketchup.
A unique and promising sauce; a day spent making ketchup from foraged haw berries is full of challenges and charms. Not familiar with haw berries? Neither were we, but there's plenty of them, free for the taking....
This ketchup makes me understand why people like ketchup! Flavorful. Full of rich tomato flavor. Multi-dimensional. You can taste the summer tomatoes. Not too sweet, but just the right amount of sweetness. Not too vinegary. Just, yum.
