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Daisy loves lemons, she won’t get the scurvy
I have piles of beautiful lemons. So I decided to make the lemon cheese (lemon curd). This is how Mum’s recipe, scribbled down in 1981 read. It is certainly spotty and dog eared and up for interpretation. juice of 8 lemons sugar to taste 1 oz butter 1 tblsp cornflour 2 eggs, whipped Make in…
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He got Cold Feet on The Farmy.
Yesterday we had glorious sunshine and not a breath of wind. This morning sitting in my high up studio, the sky still black all I can hear is wind. One of the challenges I have set myself, for these pages, was that all the images, every day, were to be from the farmy, our gardens…
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Sweet cold farmy day.. we love the farmy days.
Snow. Light Powdery snow. We had another snowy day yesterday. But it is still too dark outside for me to see what happened in the night. We have no street lights in the country so there is no way of knowing without going out. Some farms have enormous lights that light the whole yard…
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Time and motion. Multi-tasking. Do it once-do it right. Do it your way.
But how do you manage all that they say. You have a farm and all those gardens and all the cooking from scratch, baking bread, chopping wood, old fashioned stuff and your husband works, you write a daily blog and you are inherently lazy. Well, people don’t actually say I am inherently lazy, I mean…
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Spring Garden Planning and making Paper Pots for the Seedlings.
I HATE PLASTIC! Oh you knew that. I did not need to SHOUT then. But I hate plastic! So I refuse to buy plastic pots for the hundreds of seedlings we grow each year. It kind of defeats the purpose you know. So I make paper pots. They hold together remarkably well when packed in…
The Kitchen's Garden 