Remember my bowl of wild grapes, harvested from the rose corner?
The juice spent some time in the freezer, but finally became a very small dish of not-quite-gelled-enough grape jelly.
It maybe more like heavy syrup than jelly, but it tastes awfully good.
Still, I pruned all the vines out of the rosebushes. It was a fun experiment, but not worth the hassle. Though it’s time to start planning for new acquisitions for the garden… grapes? Or maybe blueberries. I can tell it’s the middle of winter when the seed catalogs start showing up to tempt me.
While I’m here, I’ve got a pile of things that have been accumulating.
- Someone else who makes goals instead of resolutions.
- Photos of the Jane Bostocke sampler (1598) from the V&A Museum. Apparently if you visit you can see it up close and personal.
- A forthcoming book on medieval clothing:
Kleidung im Mittelalter; Materialien – Konstruktion – Nähtechnik: Ein Handbuch, by Katrin Kania. I saw the original dissertation this is based on, and if you are at all serious about costuming you will want this. - Rodrick Owen is teaching at The Mannings, East Berlin PA, April 10-11.
- Wooden fabric.
Wooden fabric
on Jan 7th, 2010 at 7:22 am
The wooden textiles are wonderful! Thx for the link.
on Jan 7th, 2010 at 8:12 am
oh! I can almost smell your grapes cooking! (I’ve had syrup like that too…used up some of it mixed with seltzer..sparkling grape juice!)
As always..wonderful linkage…thanks!
on Jan 21st, 2010 at 8:08 pm
The wooden textiles were really cool!
I, too, have had the syrup experience. For me it was crabapples–they made a gorgeous, luminous, magenta colored syrup. Despite the recipe, the pectin ostensibly contained in said crabapples did not manifest.