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Gotcha now Eldrick. Not thinking about making any at the moment. Have made wine out of pretty much anything and everything in my time.
Julia in Derbyshire

Freeze distillation is easier than the traditional 'copper kettle' if you want to make pocheen - that is what I'm saying.

In theory, of course :-)

Yes Eldrick, I do know it is illegal. But that does not stop it from being made, does it now.
As to you further point, can you please explain, as I seem to be wearing me thick head today
Julia in Derbyshire

Pocheen - as if! It is illegal.....:-)

Now, a funny thing...if you make a wine and ferment it out with high tolerance yeast - your end product is going to be around the 20% mark...

If, by accident, you should put some in the freezer and with a slip of the hand, the ice should be discarded ....guess whats left....:-)

Eldrick - May I offer you the first refusal on a carrier bag full of freshly picked,clean,grub free, empty pea pods. I can keep you supplied over the next few weeks with sufficient pods to make 10-20gallons of a nice light wine. Similarly, at regular intervals I can supply you with soil free beetroot boiling water, to make a nice light red, of the quantity of above. Sadly, these days, a poor digestive system precludes me from making and drinking wine. A mere tincture of Brandy taken daily, for medicinal purposes, is more to my tastes. By the way, have you ever made Pocheen.
I, also have a breadmaker I could not live without. After the bread has proved, I turn it into bread rolls, put onto a baking tray, inside a black bin liner, and put onto the patio table to rise. The bin liner creates it's own climate in the sun (when we get any).
I have just made a dish of sugar free jelly from tea bags, using up the last of our early strawberries.
Many thing can be made from 'nothing'
Julia in Derbyshire

you were right Eldrick as ever - been looking for mushrooms this morning, only found three, BUT when I say only three they actually weigh one and three quarter pounds!!! I would prefer smaller ones, but these look good anyway.

AManda

What an excellent idea. I almost wish I hadn't stopped smoking!

I have a load of land I could use....I will have a look at this and see what I can do. Excellent!

We grow tobacco on our allotment.........curing it is a lot of fuss as a sweat chamber has to be built etc

Oh hasn't perfected it yet and it smells a bit like wet dog when you smoke it.......it doesn't taste much either but at least it isn't loaded with nasty chemicals.
( I buy mine from the shops.............lol )

Some fifty years ago, my teacher used to grow his own tobacco, and smoked it in a pipe.
Julia in Derbyshire

hmmmmm - interesting........how many elder bushes will I need to get a regular 40 fags a day?? lol

Mary

L/wick..

If it all goes wrong,,,,,,Ill contact you from the *other side*----ha ha,,,

I think it is actually poisonous - the bark of the elder bush, anyway!

Give it a go and let me know how you get on :-)

Only kiddiinnggggggggggggg

Now about this culltivating of elderflower fag bushes,L/wick....what the process,,,,,is it legal.how many fags to a bush,,,,,
but more so is it profitable,,,,,,,,,:}}

Yes, there is a high sugar content, but if you left it to ferment longer.....:-)

But then it would lose its fizz I suppose.

eldrick, only just seen this thread, you have taken me back to my childhood, my mother used to make elderflower champane, used to drink it by the bottle full , lovely... not now , to much sugar in it.

*shoves and elbows her way to the front*

Listen up everyone - I was first in to offer myself to Eldrick!!

I dont know - go away from the pc for a couple of hours and everyone is trying to steal my pitch!!!

Oh - and I am in a group on facebook called "yes, I am from Somerset - no, I dont drive a bl**dy tractor!" lol

I used to work with the wife of a couple who lived off the land in Wales -in fact the wife wrote a few books.

It was hard work and they had to go and find part time work to pay for certain bills.

But you are right in that we could all live quite freely off the land. Only thing is I could not trap an animal kill it and eat it and I am not vegetarian - a bit hypocritical I know. lol

Good on you.

Tina x

I also have chooks, ducks and guinea fowl and grow walnuts, chestnuts, pecans, hazelnuts, apples, pears, plums, figs, mulberries, oranges, lemons, limes, cumquats, tangellos, mandarines.

Morning All

As well as all the goats, rabbits, kanagaroos, wombats, possums, crocidiles, echidnas and koalas I eat here, I also grow and forage for Australian Mountain Pepper (Tasmanica Lanceolata) - the greatest spice known to mankind!

xxx mick

yeah, yeah, whatever, of course you are dear.

How many paper rounds did you do in your teens?