The life of a homesteader....
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All these many and varied posts from a man who posted last week that his life has become dull? If your life ever gets dull, BR, I'll eat all my shoes!
I'd rather eat the foods BR's showing. LOL
Canned the last of the apples today (phew) 25 pounds of apples and some sultanas plus a few cinnamon sticks and cloves equate to seventeen pint jars of apple pie filling
Apple pie filling by British Red, on Flickr
Harvested the last of the Haricot beans and set them to dry.
Bean Seed Saving by British Red, on Flickr
These are destined for the "perfect, home grown, baked bean" experiment.
Apple pie filling by British Red, on FlickrHarvested the last of the Haricot beans and set them to dry.
Bean Seed Saving by British Red, on FlickrThese are destined for the "perfect, home grown, baked bean" experiment.
Tried again today on the "we need to learn to grow cereals efficiently"
This time - hard red winter wheat (good for bread)
Hard Red Winter Wheat by British Red, on Flickr
Ridged Bed by British Red, on Flickr
Wheat in Soil by British Red, on Flickr
Only time will tell if this works for us...but I REALLY need to improve my cereal growing.
This time - hard red winter wheat (good for bread)
Hard Red Winter Wheat by British Red, on FlickrRidged Bed by British Red, on FlickrWheat in Soil by British Red, on FlickrOnly time will tell if this works for us...but I REALLY need to improve my cereal growing.
I had to look up soya beans to see if they were the same thing as soybeans. What were you planning on doing with them?
Cooking and eating them We are exploring many bean varieties to see which ones we most like, which store well dried, frozen, canned etc. Which work well with our favourite recipes and which are the best in (English type) baked beans.
We are exploring many bean varieties to see which ones we most like, which store well dried, frozen, canned etc. Which work well with our favourite recipes and which are the best in (English type) baked beans.
Cooking and eating them
Really? I've never seen soybeans offered as such for human consumption. Processed into oil, or as cattle feed, yes, but not as is for humans However if it works for you then I hope you have better luck with your crop next year.
The most common beans I've seen for baked beans are usually either Navy beans or Great Northerns. What's the difference in English type baked beans?
English type baked beans are usually made with haricots - but I think BR just meant he was going to cook them like the tinned baked beans.
Soya beans are very very widely consumed around the world and I'm pretty sure you'll have eaten them in the USA, Santa. They are often used as a source of 'vegetable protein' that is prevalent in much food.
Soya beans are very very widely consumed around the world and I'm pretty sure you'll have eaten them in the USA, Santa. They are often used as a source of 'vegetable protein' that is prevalent in much food.
We are trying haricots and dutch brown for the baked beans, the soya beans were intended for chillies and stews. They are nutritionally interesting and I can't see why not to eat them as a bean rather than making them into faux meat as so often happens.
Oh their nutrition is undisputed. It's the taste and texture that I've found wanting, but that's a personal thing. Like you, I'm no fan of the faux meats made from them.
Got the pressure canner full of "chilli con red" using up chillis and tomatoes, peppers and onions. Also working through the last of the rhubarb to can that with some ginger.
I am, quite honestly, bored with preserving by now. Its great fun and we get good food from it, but any job you have to repeat a lot in a short time frame gets dreary. Yesterday was wine and beer, last week was apples, this week the last of the fruit (barring pears) and greenhouse crops. It'll be done soon enough.
We are completely out of shelf space for home preserved items so another job on the "to do list" is to build some heavy duty wooden shelves sized correctly for canning jars
I am, quite honestly, bored with preserving by now. Its great fun and we get good food from it, but any job you have to repeat a lot in a short time frame gets dreary. Yesterday was wine and beer, last week was apples, this week the last of the fruit (barring pears) and greenhouse crops. It'll be done soon enough.
We are completely out of shelf space for home preserved items so another job on the "to do list" is to build some heavy duty wooden shelves sized correctly for canning jars
Second attempt at growing my own bread!
Gone for a high gluten, short stemmed modern Winter variety this time. Lets hope I do a little better
Germinated Wheat by British Red, on Flickr
Gone for a high gluten, short stemmed modern Winter variety this time. Lets hope I do a little better
Germinated Wheat by British Red, on Flickr
