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
3 responses to “Grapey”
The wooden textiles are wonderful! Thx for the link.
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!
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.