Vinegar is one of those culinary facts of life that existed for thousands of years before being truly understood. (Some probiotics enthusiasts might say that we still don’t truly understand vinegar.) With the ability to sterilize, preserve, and add flavor, vinegar has been made all over the world with as many source ingredients as can…
More preservation tactics of Mrs. B.C. Howard née Jane Gilmor, this time in the form of chutney. Mrs. Howard has a number of Indian recipes in her cookbook, including three “East India Receipt”s for chutneys and pickled lemons. She also includes a curry, a recipe for “Binderloo”, and “Indian Pilau.” From my modern vantage point…
There comes a time in the life of every seasonal fruit, when having been consumed to excess and then lent to some other assortment of creative uses, finally what is left of the fruit must be preserved. In modern times we have some options here. We have freezers and dehydrators, in addition to those methods…