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  • From: "Graham Burnett" <grahamburnett@blueyonder.co.uk>
  • To: "permaculture" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Shout out for permaculture recipes.... (UK bias)
  • Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 08:49:43 +0100

Thanks Ute- will have a proper look later... Predictably enough I'm getting
all sorts of flak from the vegan e-lists for mentioning the 'H' word... I
didn't dare metion my book project on the alt.permaculture list tho...

Cheers Graham

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ute Bohnsack" <sustag@eircom.net>
To: "permaculture" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2003 1:03 PM
Subject: Re: [permaculture] Shout out for permaculture recipes.... (UK bias)


> Hi Graham and all,
> not sure whether this is dogmatic enough :) but one my favourites has to
> be Worcesterberry jam made with
> c. 60% Worcesterberries
> c. 40% honey
> and as a gelling agent (this is the part that may be not close enough to
> home) a product called Configel which is made from apple pectin and
> starch (c. 15g to a kg of fruit or a litre of juice).
>
> Fruit and honey are brought to the boil, Configel is added, it's boiled
> for 5 minutes and then filled into sterile (boiled out) twist-off jars.
> Unopened it lasts for years. Opened the jam has to be kept cool and
> eaten wihin about 10 days (no problem! so tasty).
>
> The tricky part is that Configel is not available here in Ireland, not
> sure about GB. I bring it back from the health food shop in Germany when
> I go over. The reason I use it is that it does not require sugar to be
> added to the jam to set it, and it does not contain gelatine. In fact no
> sweetener at all is required to set the jam and one can add as much or
> as little of any sweetener available as one likes for the desired level
> of sweetness. I use it for all my jams (black current, red current,
> raspberry, blackberry etc.) at c 60% fruit / 40% honey or even less for
> very sweet fruit which makes a VERY fruity jam, unlike the sugary stuff
> (50/50 or 40/60) one can buy in the supermarket. Configel was developed
> in Germany after WWII when sugar was a rare commodity.
>
> Worcesterberry is a great alternative to gooseberries IMHO. It is
> extremely vigourous, high yielding, a good bee plant, and makes a good,
> dense, thorny, if low, hedge. I have had problems with gooseberry sawfly
> on it - still got a surprisingly good yield though in that year - but is
> does not seem to get American mildew like gooseberries do.
> Since it is very thorny, small birds seem to feel safe in it, as
> attested by lots of bird droppings underneath, which fertilize it at the
> same time ('guano'). All it needs is a bit of thinning during dormancy
> and perhaps some mulch (I use cardboard, spoiled hay, and comfrey
> leaves). There is a picture of the fruit at
> http://www.ibiblio.org/permaculture-online/profclogher2.html
>
> HTH
> Happy Easter.
>
> Ute
>
> Graham Burnett wrote:
> >
> > hello folks and sorry for the cross posting-
> >
> > I'm putting together a kind of sequel book to both my 'Permaculture A
> > Beginners Guide' and my vegan cookbook, 'well fed, Not An Animal dead'
which
> > will be a kind of permaculture recipe book featuring recipes or better
still
> > 'cooking guidelines' (I rarely use or follow prescriptive recipes- if
you've
> > seen 'Well Fed' you'll know what i mean) for meals that can be made with
> > mainly home grown or non-imported ingredients (in the UK) and that
require
> > the minimum of processing, packaging etc, together with some related
> > articles on food miles, gardening, fukuoka, forest gardening, etc.
> >
> > I'd be interested in any recipes or stuff on preserving, drying, etc
that
> > people might like to contribute. I'd request that all submissions be
vegan,
> > or at least easily adaptable to vegan (though I don't mind recipes which
> > include home-scale produced honey), and I'm particularly interested in
> > including some raw food recipes, as well as dishes utilising wild foods,
> > 'weeds', edible flowers, less usual fruit, etc, as well as seasonal
dishes
> > based on the 'wheel of the year' (eg, meals appropriate for the various
> > yearly festivals like Beltane, samhain, etc). I'm not going to be
> > ultra-dogmatic, including some imported ingredients, eg, olive oil, fair
> > traded ingredients, etc would be acceptable...
> >
> > Any submissions used will be credited and you'll recieve (at least) a
copy
> > of the book when it's finished...
> >
> > Look forward to hearing from all you perma-cooks out there!
> >
> > Cheers Graham
> >
> > www.landandliberty.co.uk
> >
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