There was some overnight rain amounting to 3.8mm with it remaining dry for the rest of the day. It wasn’t too pleasant a day as there were plenty of clouds about and it was pretty cool. The wind was strong to gale force in the afternoon.
Yesterday’s harvest from the plot included a few cranberries.
This little lot weighed in at 181 gms. I decided to convert them into a compote to use with some yogurt but I wasn’t too sure about how much sugar to add. I reckon for fruit that might be considered a bit on the sour side half the fruit’s weight in sugar is usually plenty adding considerable less for sweeter fruits.
After adding the sugar the cranberries were warmed steadily to allow the sugar to dissolve and the berries to soften as they were fairly solid when picked. Once they had cooled a little I had a little taster and it was difficult to imagine any sugar had been added at all. They were still really tart so I decided to go for jam making levels of sugar adding half the weight of the fruit again. The berries were warmed again just to dissolve the and the taste test repeated. They tasted better but I’m sort of glad we haven’t lots of berries to use up. Perhaps we picked them a little too early?
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