Apples and oranges and other food

I did finally get my elderflower cordial steeped and strained (through a sieve to remove the floating petals and then through a freshly-laundered handkerchief to remove the rest of the bits) and bottled, but I have to say it didn't taste at all the way I remembered, and I'm not sure I like it. ( Read more... )

After fishing them out of the cordial bowl, I used all the so-arduously-acquired citrus slices to make A Florendine of Apples and Oranges ("very popular in Georgian times"), which is basically whole slices of oranges and lemon poached in syrup before being baked with cooking apples and spices under a pastry lid. ( Read more... )

I also constructed -- with rather more success -- a poor man's solyanka( Read more... )

As usual, I substituted the 'marinated berries' of the topping with home-made chutney, which amounts to the same thing ;-D

( Russian cooking )