What to do, while off injured? Make various preserves of course.

[Glaucus]

while now I am totally bored of tv, pc and getting sick of reading.
decide that after a year of very little cooking, be a good opportunity to get back in it.
And to do something I've wanted to do for ages, make and bottle my own preserves and sauces. So order 48 jars and 48 sauce bottles.






So far decided to make:
Onion marmalade
My BBQ sauce
Roasted pepper and chilli sauce
Maybe a lemon curd as never made anything like that before.

So if anyone has any awesome recipes then suggest away.

If anyone is thinking yum, I will be looking to send a collection of the finished lot out, for donations to Wiltshire air ambulance.

To start with Onion Marmalade(this one is from the River cottage handbook):

4kilo sliced onions
200ml olive oil
400g brown sugar
300g redcurrant jelly
600ml cider vinegar
100ml balsamic vinegar
salt+pepper




that's a lot of onions:


Part way through, what I imagine will be a very long sweating and caramelisation process.


been sweating down for about 30mins with a lid on, now loads of liquid in it.


So it's time to add the sugar and jelly


Been reducing down for about another 30mins


Time to add the vinegars


Been reducing for another 10-15mins, now ready to pot


Boil your jars and lids for 10minutes



Pot whilst jars and marmalade are still piping hot, this next stage shouldn't be needed for this recipe, but I will need to do it for the sauces, so i thought it can;t do any harm and will make sure there's nothing in the jars. Place the jars with lids only 1/2 on in a few cms of water place in a reasonably low heated oven for around 30-40minutes.


Was hoping to get 10 of each, but as you can see this only made 7.