Polish Pickled Mushrooms with Mustard Seeds – A Homemade Recipe
My family recipe for vinegar-pickled mushrooms with mustard seeds, carrot and onion, using bay boletes, porcini, slippery jacks or chanterelles.
Homemade Preserves
Pears in Plum Pickling Liquid – A Delicious Way to Use What Is Left
I had aromatic liquid left over from pickled plums and another 1.2 kg of pears waiting in the kitchen. Rather than pour it away, I refreshed it with vinegar and spices and made pears in plum pickling liquid.
Pickled Plums – A Traditional Polish Recipe in Sweet-and-Sour Vinegar
I make these homemade pickled plums over three days. The pitted fruit is covered twice with a hot, spiced vinegar mixture in a large jar, then transferred to smaller jars on day three. It is a flavour I remember from home, although my mum always left the plums whole, with the stones in.
Pickled Pears – My Grandmother’s Old Recipe
My grandmother’s sweet-and-sour pickled pears with cloves bring back memories of her pantry and the jars we shared. Here is the old family recipe I still use today.
Oven-Baked Plum Butter – An Easy Recipe with 2 kg of Plums
Make thick, intensely fruity plum butter in the oven with 2 kg of plums, sugar and cinnamon. An easy homemade preserve without hours of standing beside a saucepan.