# The Foraging And Preserving Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** food-cooking\ **Created:** [August 16, 2021, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-foraging-and-preserving-thread/948931 "2021-08-16T11:23:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 15
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2021, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-foraging-and-preserving-thread/948931/15 "2021-09-15T20:29:56Z")
> [@Treppenwitz](#): > > Make jam and jelly when the weather’s bad; forage when it’s good Yesterday the weather was lousy. So: on to some preserving. I was _busy_ yesterday. A batch of sourdough bread (two loaves); a batch of pumpkin soup, working my way through the remains of last year’s crop (frozen); and, of course, the main business of the day: Apple jelly - [using this recipe](https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/crab-apple-jelly) my 1.1 kgs of apples yielded pretty much exactly 3 jars of 2021-AP-00008, which is plenty for the year. Don’t get me wrong - it’s very nice, but others are rather better and a lot more interesting. I had hell setting this last year - this year it set in the blinking of an eye (well, ish). Strange. Maybe part of the difference is I have become very much influenced by my mentor J’s view that a runny jam which hasn’t had the volatile flavors boiled off is superior - so I’m aiming for barely set now. Two batches of jelly in a day! The return of the mulberry! Using one of the 2 remaining frozen 2kg bags of mulberries and the recipe in post 11, I produced 4 jars of jelly and some bits and pieces (batch 2021-MU-00009). My opinion of mulberry is on the rise (and it got good reviews); so for these reasons this is my first LIMITED EDITION batch (very limited, as it happens). Jars individually numbered. I may yet sign the labels. This was always intended to be a giveaway batch (as Mrs T was giving it away before I had even made it) - it’s a real curiosity and, as I said, getting good reviews. Speaking of barely set, I ran this one right to the limit. It’s barely set _when refrigerated_. Liquid at room temp. J would be proud. A bit of a fright - but it tastes great. j Note: regarding J and her mentoring, see the [coelacanth jam](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coelacanth-jam-a-thread-to-update-the-medlar-chronicles/924830) thread for background. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-foraging-and-preserving-thread/948931)._