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[food] the most ridiculous injury
Jan. 27th, 2021 11:32 pmOn Monday, I made tagine (to so as to use two jars of passata, thereby gaining two jars) and Dundee cake (to use up the end of a jar of marmalade, thereby gaining one jar)...
... and then (having paused to very nearly cry over how good the tomato passata from my tomatoes smelled, so, thank you to everyone who encouraged me to actually get on with it even though it seemed ridiculous at the time when I was Drowning In Tomatoes) I got started on the citrus miscellaneous, which was why I needed jars in the first place, because It's Marmalade Season (and I'd sent off a thesis chapter and wanted a break, and sometimes "a break" is "... processing 2.5kg of citrus into marmalade by hand, for some reason").
I was about 750g in and congratulating myself on having picked a day when I didn't appear to have hands covered in microabrasions when I... started noticing... a suspicious burning sensation in the top knuckle of my right-hand little finger.
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Anyway, I now have thirteen (ish) jars of bergamot marmalade. I'd stack them up into a castle and post a picture captioned LOOK UPON MY WORKS, YE MIGHTY, AND DESPAIR [it's funny because they're inherently consumable, you see] but they're insufficiently regularly shaped and I'm uncertain of my ability to engage in Architecture and also it's bedtime.
Lessons for next time (probably not until 2023, given that the last time I made any was 2018): 1kg of oranges is Enough for one year, and also while this is tasty you do like a more aggressive bergamot flavour, so, make it two bergamot per kilo of Seville, not one. (And also leave out the lemon pith and see what that does to the flavour in terms of bitterness.)
... and then (having paused to very nearly cry over how good the tomato passata from my tomatoes smelled, so, thank you to everyone who encouraged me to actually get on with it even though it seemed ridiculous at the time when I was Drowning In Tomatoes) I got started on the citrus miscellaneous, which was why I needed jars in the first place, because It's Marmalade Season (and I'd sent off a thesis chapter and wanted a break, and sometimes "a break" is "... processing 2.5kg of citrus into marmalade by hand, for some reason").
I was about 750g in and congratulating myself on having picked a day when I didn't appear to have hands covered in microabrasions when I... started noticing... a suspicious burning sensation in the top knuckle of my right-hand little finger.
( Read more... )
Anyway, I now have thirteen (ish) jars of bergamot marmalade. I'd stack them up into a castle and post a picture captioned LOOK UPON MY WORKS, YE MIGHTY, AND DESPAIR [it's funny because they're inherently consumable, you see] but they're insufficiently regularly shaped and I'm uncertain of my ability to engage in Architecture and also it's bedtime.
Lessons for next time (probably not until 2023, given that the last time I made any was 2018): 1kg of oranges is Enough for one year, and also while this is tasty you do like a more aggressive bergamot flavour, so, make it two bergamot per kilo of Seville, not one. (And also leave out the lemon pith and see what that does to the flavour in terms of bitterness.)