ARIEL'S NO-BUGET COOKBOOK # 5
I read a few comments last night, from people lamenting that they had hard, or unripe pears; and indeed some of these pears from hybrid trees can be as hard and as tasteless as turnips. They sure weren’t like that when I was a lad! Before the days of freezers and fridges, our ancestors had to store produce in other ways; by drying, smoking, salting etc, or turning fruit into jam ( jelly ) or other preserves. I can remember that, when I was about seven years old, we moved to a larger house, and... Sign in to see full entry.