Horseradish
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I've bought 2 sorts of jarred horseradish over the years: Cross & Blackwell and another from Branston.
Still, about as hard for me to find as Rose's Fine Cut Lime Marmalade.
So I got a few root pieces of horseradish from a Polish immigrant family. They taught me the preparation. Horribly potent goop.
Then I found a ridiculously simple recipe to make my own lime marmalade. Damn but that stuff is good.
Still, about as hard for me to find as Rose's Fine Cut Lime Marmalade.
So I got a few root pieces of horseradish from a Polish immigrant family. They taught me the preparation. Horribly potent goop.
Then I found a ridiculously simple recipe to make my own lime marmalade. Damn but that stuff is good.
MaC
Moderator
Funny you should say that; we found a very old (2008 date) jar of lime marmalade in the bottom of a box in the pantry just before Christmas..
It was absolutely delicious
and we thoroughly enjoyed it.
It was absolutely delicious
and we thoroughly enjoyed it.Good enough! My jar of Rose's had about a tablespoon of very dried lime marmalade gel in it (which I scraped out on the spot and ate).
Slice, soak over night and cook 2 dozen big dark green limes. Add _one_ drop of blue food coloring, the batch tends to yellow, the blue will keep it all green! Lots of pectin so it sets up very well by itself. I cut the sugar by 1/2, doesn't seem to make any difference but the lime taste is not choked by the sugar/sweetness. I do tire from slicing the limes, though.
Slice, soak over night and cook 2 dozen big dark green limes. Add _one_ drop of blue food coloring, the batch tends to yellow, the blue will keep it all green! Lots of pectin so it sets up very well by itself. I cut the sugar by 1/2, doesn't seem to make any difference but the lime taste is not choked by the sugar/sweetness. I do tire from slicing the limes, though.
MaC
Moderator
Cheat on dealing with the limes.
Use a potato peeler to strip off the skin in really thin slices. Squeeze the juice out of the fruits and use that.
I use my herb chopping scissors, like these, and slice up the skins into slivers.
Saves my aching hands and wrists enormously
Use a potato peeler to strip off the skin in really thin slices. Squeeze the juice out of the fruits and use that.
I use my herb chopping scissors, like these, and slice up the skins into slivers.
Saves my aching hands and wrists enormously
MaC
Moderator
Well yes, but I like to make, and I like to use as little extra sugar as I can get away with taste wise and still keep it sound, in my jams and jellies.
M
No, I can't buy lime marmalade. Last jar was decades ago, Robertson's, I recall. I use several limes per week in my kitchen. Imagine my delight to find a really simple recipe to make lime marmalade. I'll slice them, thanks. I like the visual of halves and quarters in the transparent green of the jelled juice. 90% is just 2mm slices.
Saint-Just
Administrator
W.A.I.T.R.O.S.E. 
None near, I have googledW.A.I.T.R.O.S.E.
Saint-Just
Administrator
How do you even survive?
If I see some next time I go I'll grab a couple and post them to you.
Britain and you can't find horseradish root? Best if you can get some going in the ground.
Your eastern European ethnic communities must have a "patch" out back somewhere to share.
Your eastern European ethnic communities must have a "patch" out back somewhere to share.
MaC
Moderator
A digging stick, or a wee trowel is easily hidden
Nice65
Explorer
TBH that looks like Dock leaves, horseradish leaves are longer, more pointy, and smell strongly of horseradish. Not that he’ll see this, but I think someone should advise it’s definitely horseradish. 
Those big leaves and growth habit sure look like the beast that grows outside my back alley fence!
I agree = crush a leaf and smell it. Digging up a kilo won't set the plant back one little bit.
Nobody has been able to dig up enough of mine to kill it.
I agree = crush a leaf and smell it. Digging up a kilo won't set the plant back one little bit.
Nobody has been able to dig up enough of mine to kill it.
Beachlover
Moderator
Horseradish?
Plantnet says 54% sure it's horseradish and 9% dock.
ElThomsono
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No idea if that's part of the ruse?
