Monday Mix 7/24/23

Happy Mondays, everyone! Hope you all had a nice weekend. I spent it doing more testing for my Kneading Conference workshop (always doing things at the last minute around here!), and making some of my friend Camilla Wynne’s red currant syrup, which I plan to use in all the cocktails I’ll be drinking on my August break, which starts after this Wednesday’s posts.

Speaking of which, while it does not include her syrup recipe (which you can find in her book Preservation Society Home Preserves), Camilla recently shared a couple of (as-ever) excellent posts on preserving summer fruits over at Kitchen Projects:

Kitchen Project #108: To preserve or not to preserve

Hello, Welcome to today’s edition of Kitchen Projects, my recipe development journal. Thank you so much for being here! For today’s edition, I’m thrilled to hand you over to the brilliant of Camilla Wynne, our resident preserving expert (and author of two preserving books,

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and this one, from April:

Kitchen Projects: A Field Guide to Preserving

Hello, Welcome to today’s edition of Kitchen Projects. It’s so wonderful to have you here. As summer hurtles towards us, so does the promise of fruit, fruit everywhere; Picking up punnets of berries to take to the park, peaches that explode as you bite into them, roadside cherries that stain your fingers, mangoes that leave the memory of stickiness on you…

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See you all in a few days, when I’ll have an excerpt from Maurizio Leo’s book, The Perfect Loaf, all about maximizing (or minimizing) pucker in your sourdough breads.

—Andrew