So this is my new blog for Inapickle….providing that business rego doesn’t make me change my name this week…
When I was a little kid, we had an apricot tree at home. I remember spending hours with my Mum cutting up fruit, weighing it, working out sugar, packing the Vacola jars, and the old stove top kit bubbling away on the stove to preserve the jars. The apricot tree died eventually, we grew older and tinned fruit was easy to buy as well.
I just recently bought a Vacola kit and preserved some peaches for my own kids, and I suddenly remembered something…home preserved fruit is much better than a tin!!! I’d forgotten how much better it is until we opened out first jar the other night. I’m going to pack some jars of pears next.
that’s just for us though:-) I also make jellies, Jam, Piccalilli, and chutney. The Vacola Kit is getting a great work out preserving all of these jars for me. Now I need to find a decent market. I’ve had a bit of bad luck with the first two I’ve been to, probably mostly due to insane Adelaide summer heat. I may look at setting up at the Adelaide Farmers Market, as I get most of my produce from them anyway…
There is also a link to my online shop on this page:) I’ll add products as soon as I get a bit more organised this week.