Local lady Keri Maxfield shared her Pickle Club idea using Facebook and inspired 15 picklers to meet up for a taste test and share evening at Old Main Brewery. Thanks is due to OMB management for accommodating the group in a function room and to Des Yeoman who showed us all how pasta can easily be made at home.There were tangy pickles, sweet pickles and hot pickles too. An especially delicious dried apricot jam is calling me for a late afternoon snack as I type. Some of the labels were highly professional, hinting at some very competitive personalities in the room. Lots of adorable bows adorned the preserves and each bottle of pickles had a recipe attached.
Keri’s thinking is to revive the recipes our grandmothers and possibly mothers used to preserve food, as prices for these treats rise. It may be time go back to the old ways and stop wasting. If you have a tree full of fruit in your garden, make jam. Brinjals on special? Pickle them!
Well done Keri on this initiative and we hope that by sharing this other Pickling, potting and preserving groups will pop up.
It is all about doing what you can, where you are, with what you have. So well done to those who presented their produce in recycled jars!
Pictured here, proudly holding her pickles is Bailee Guy.
Below L-R: pickled onions by Keri Maxfield, drying pasta by Des Yeoman and Nikki Stokes' hot cucumber pickle.
Food photographs by Bailee Guy 123 Photography.
