--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 208 HOME & GARDEN Ref: EED00002 Date: 10/03/97 From: HELEN PEAGRAM Time: 01:16pm \/To: KELLY CRUISE (Read 1 times) Subj: Re: Question about pickles -=> Quoting Kelly Cruise to All <=- KC> Okay, I've got a question.... If I wanted to make my own cucumbers, KC> how would I go about it? Mostly, I'm interested in making sweet KC> gerkins. KC> Kel This recipe uses other things as well as gherkins, but works well with just gherkins and they are delicious. ---------- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.05 Title: Mom's 4 Day Pickles Categories: Preserving, Relishes, Pickles Yield: 24 servings 3 qt Gherkins <-=OR=-> Same amount small cukes 2 Cauliflower 1/3 c Pickling salt 8 c Boiling water 3 1/2 c White vinegar 5 c Sugar 2 1/2 c Water 3/4 oz Allspice buds 1 oz Cassia buds 1st Day: Wash and slice cucumbers or gherkins into slices. Wash and break up cauliflowers into bite size pieces. Put vegetables in a crock. Cover with brine made with salt and boiling water. Double amounts of brine if necessary to cover vegetables. 2nd Day: Drain brine and replace with fresh brine. 3rd Day: Drain brine and replace with fresh brine. 4th Day: Drain well and rinse vegetables. In a large kettle, bring to a boil vinegar, sugar and spices. Place 1/4 tsp alum in each PINT jar. Fill with pickles and pour pickling solution to fill jar. Keep 1 month before use. ----- WWWWW ( * * ) +-----------oOOO---^---OOOo-------------+ | The Mom | | INET: mom@hwcn.org | | | |NETMAIL: The Lunch Box (1:244/426) | +---------------------------------------+ --- Blue Wave/Max v2.30 * Origin: Salata * Redondo Beach, CA * 310-543-0439 33.6k (1:102/125) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 208 HOME & GARDEN Ref: EEE00000 Date: 09/21/97 From: JERRY KASSEBAUM Time: 06:16am \/To: JIM VENEDAM (Read 1 times) Subj: Air potatoes JV>If I remember as I shoot by the Sanctuary, I'll see what they JV>have on the plant. You trying to turn it into a new beer? Now there's an idea! I had potato vodka once. But I don't think air-potatoe vodka would be legal. If you could ask my question at the Sactuary, I would appreciate it. --- * SLMR 2.1a * e-mail kassebaum@juno.com --- WILDMAIL!/WC v4.12 * Origin: The Dark Side Internet Services -Ftp/Gopher/Archie- 1:3603/361.0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 208 HOME & GARDEN Ref: EEE00001 Date: 09/21/97 From: JERRY KASSEBAUM Time: 06:18am \/To: MARILYN BOISSONEAULT (Read 1 times) Subj: Air potatoes MB>Ok I found the info in my book. The air potato is of the Thanks for the info! MB>So hopefully you haven''t been experimenting with cooking them MB>yet. OoooOOOOooh! My belly! Nope, not yet. --- * SLMR 2.1a * e-mail kassebaum@juno.com --- WILDMAIL!/WC v4.12 * Origin: The Dark Side Internet Services -Ftp/Gopher/Archie- 1:3603/361.0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 208 HOME & GARDEN Ref: EEE00002 Date: 10/09/97 From: DORIS DIGNARD Time: 08:28pm \/To: HELEN PEAGRAM (Read 1 times) Subj: Re: HELLO [2/2] HP>I tried that method but found I had more trouble with freezer burn and since >I usually use only 1 pepper at a time, it works better for me. As they say, different strokes for different folks. Doris Dignard dorisdignard@better.net doris.dignard@capcanada.com * 1st 2.00 #9125 * Fashion: Something that goes in one year and out the xt. --- PCBoard (R) v15.3 (OS/2) 5 * Origin: FidoNet: CAP/CANADA Support BBS : 416 287-0234 (1:250/710) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 208 HOME & GARDEN Ref: EEF00000 Date: 10/05/97 From: MARIA EDELHAUSEN Time: 11:23pm \/To: SANDRA PEAKE (Read 1 times) Subj: WELCOME!!!!!!!! Hi, Sandra! On 25 September 1997 Sandra Peake wrote to Jim Evans: JE>> Would you mind telling me what is a "Passieflora Caerulea"? JE>> Thanks, Jim SP> Blue Passionflower. It actually grows wild 100 miles north of here on SP> the leeward side of Georgian Bay. (I don't think she meant to include SP> an "e" in the Latin name -to wit, Passiflora. :-)) SP> ...Sandra... That's it Sandra! Thanks for your reaction, mine has in the meantime also reached you I think. Do you mean the state Georgia by saying 'Georgian Bay'? Greetings Maria --- FMail/386 1.0g * Origin: A Passionflower freak -Lanaken/Belgium +32 89732917 (2:292/127.17) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 208 HOME & GARDEN Ref: EEG00000 Date: 10/10/97 From: KELLY CRUISE Time: 10:56pm \/To: HELEN PEAGRAM (Read 1 times) Subj: Question about pickles >This recipe uses other things as well as gherkins, but works well with ust >gherkins and they are delicious. Thanks Helen. I'll stash it away for use later! Kel ... QMPro 1.53 Support Operation Lifesaver on your layout..... --- FMailX/386 1.0g * Origin: The King's Realm! (805) 495-2830 (1:102/1024) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 208 HOME & GARDEN Ref: EEH00000 Date: 10/10/97 From: SANDRA PEAKE Time: 12:14pm \/To: TRUDY SACK (Read 1 times) Subj: Tomatoes TS> TA> I missed out on Big Boy/Girls, Rutgers, etc. and had to go TS> TA> with the JetStars) TS> I planted jet stars this year...as I was late getting a garden started. TS> I am very disappointed in their taste. Very mealy texture. Fall off TS> the vine before getting red. I never had a red one on the vine...always TS> had to finish them off on my counter. I have so many big tomatoes tho. TS> They did yield huge fruit, but the taste just wasn't up to snuff. That might be a weather-stress problem, Trudy. It's a tad unfair to judge varieties on a single growing season. Especially THIS growing season! I haven't talked to a single home gardener who has raised his usual bunch of large lovely, insect-free tomatoes this year. Not one! This encompasses all types of soil, varieties, and growing methods. Something so universal has to be weather related. I was dismayed at the amount of slug, mouse and cricket damage to my fruits, followed by those little two-tone black beetles that typically infest damaged fruit. Especially to Brandywine, that thin-skinned excellently flavoured heirloom. I had to pick them green to avoid insect damage. The only whole tomatoes I managed to harvest ripe were some thick-skinned paste types, like Viva Italia and Crimsonvee. Even my longtime favourite Heinz canner, which I have raised for 20 years, did more poorly than usual. The funny thing is, they were all mulched, which normally gives me decent fruits. Not this year! :-( As far as that goes, I find the taste of most very early tomatoes unacceptably acid, whereas later ones have much better flavour and texture. But even the worst fully ripe homegrown early tomato is better than the supermarket green baseballs sold as imported winter tomatoes. :-) ...Sandra... --- * QMPro 1.52 * Actually, I -AM- a rocket scientist ;it doesn't help. --- WILDMAIL!/WC v4.12 * Origin: The Fire Pit BBS Paris Ont (519)442-1013 (1:221/1500.0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 208 HOME & GARDEN Ref: EEH00001 Date: 10/06/97 From: THURSTON ACKERMAN Time: 04:48pm \/To: JUDITH HEATWOLE (Read 1 times) Subj: Jet Star up date JH>I'm looking for a sweet tomato and a tart tomato; and basically JH>I'm searching for thin, tender skins. Don't need the commercial JH>thick-skinned, pasty ones. Got any suggestions? I am old enough to have a soft spot for Rutgers, but Big Boys can work well also. We grow most of ours now for the noontime salads (trying to control our weight without great success 8-) By tart tomatoes I hazard your are looking for cooking types which generally indicates the Italian plum types. Our family is grown now so we don't do these any more; but we do miss the glorious aroma produced during the canning process (and it was a great way to engage the children in the process to the satisfaction of all 8-). I am of the opinion that seedings started in our own six packs work better then those forced sets offered in the markets and hope we are well enough this spring to start our own again (besides it helps to dissapate the winter doldrums with the promise of spring soon 8-) Ciao, Ack. --- * SLMR 2.1a * The cow ate bluegrass and mooed indigo..... * Origin: SKYLINE BBS (617)361-1242 U.S.A. Mail Feeds Available. 1:101/580) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 208 HOME & GARDEN Ref: EEH00002 Date: 10/09/97 From: MARIA EDELHAUSEN Time: 09:29pm \/To: JIM VENEDAM (Read 3 times) Subj: hibiscus - lantana Hi, Jim! On 29 September 1997 Jim Venedam wrote to Maria Edelhausen: JV> I had to think about it for a minute.... When I put the Christmas JV> lights up, the leaves are still there, so they don't lose their leaves. Then I suppose that you have the hibiscus Rosa Sinensis (not hardy) in your garden, or should it even be the hardy hibiscus Syriacus? JV> Yes. The Lantana lives thru the winter. The branches are quite JV> woody, so I imagine they'd survive a frost, maybe even a freeze. Maybe, because they are really woody that they could have a freeze, but when I let my lantana in containers outside for a freeze they will die. JV> These two bushes are becoming a nuisance to me. I have a "hedge" JV> behind my pool as a screen. There is about 15 feet of Cardinal Latin name please, suppose it could be "Erithrina crista gallii" but I'm not sure. JV> Plant which grows to about 6 feet. It has big leaves and loads JV> of red flowers all summer and fall. (The flowers look something JV> like salvia). The plants have spread easily from the one plant JV> my neighbor gave me. They do die off easily in the first frost, JV> but the roots live and come back in the spring. When I'm right in guessing the Latin name, I can tell you that mine in the pot is just opening now the third flower of this year, which makes me already very happy. JV> frisky to keep neat. Grow every which way. They also seed JV> themselves everywhere. The flowers interested me when I first JV> saw them. A flower made up of circles of smaller flowers, all JV> multicolored. Yes in your nice climat those plants are really doing well. Where they all of the same color? I've here several colors (all in pots) : white, creme, pink, red and orange. The changing of the colors from red to yellow and then red again as final color is really wonderful. JV> I have two 1 gallon pots of the orange lantana that I'm going JV> to plant somewhere at my mothers house. I've seen them in some JV> commercial plantings. They grow low, and from a distance look JV> like huge beds of marigolds. Didn't know that there was a real low growing lantana. Don't think it will be necessary for us here to get that kind of lantana, because cut the plants for about 5O% when putting them in the greenhouse for the winter. That we do to save place and because they even loose all their leaves. Greetings Maria --- FMail/386 1.0g * Origin: INTRO/BBS-Lanaken/Belgium- 24h on line +32 89732917 (2:292/127.17)