hawthorn jelly

[john scrivy]

just tried my now dried out hawthorn fruit leather its horrible

 

[spamel]

Well, that has put paid to the idea that there could be regional varieties! I think it is fair to say that hawthorn fruit leather is the devils' toe jam!

 

[Pitkin]

Glad i found these posts tonight, thought maybe I'd done something wrong, maybe picked dud haws or dried it out wrong, but I have been a victim too. Bland apple taste, bitter, tough and resembling bog rolls and cricket bats. But there must be a bushcrafty way of making it taste better even if it means adding something from the shops ie. adding glucose powder to the liqid or once dehydrated maybe imerse in sugar/water solution and dry out again. Perhaps i'll write to Heston Blumenthal he'll sus it out.

 

[jon r]

mine was bad taisting too. The fruit leather turned out a nice colour, thats all i can say, although when squishing the fruit with my hands at the start all i could think of was the fact that it looked like fox crap.

 

[spamel]

Oh there is a definite way of making it better, that is throwing it into the nearest hedge and vowing never to try something so ridiculous ever again!

I was dissapointed. I really wanted it to be nice.

 

[john scrivy]

I left my bit of fruit leather on my bird table for a week even the birds thought it Cr-p