| Archive for Downsizer For an ethical approach to consumption |
| Rob R |
Keeping lemonsI usually stick a half lemon in the fridge and it dries out pretty quick, so I tried putting them in an old yoghurt pot with resealable lid and it got pushed to the back of the fridge & forgotten about. I cracked it open last night after several weeks in there and it's as fresh as the day it went in! Any idea how long you can keep lemons this way? |
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| vegplot |
Several weeks apparently. | ||||
| gz |
I put some lemons on the freezer when I was marmalade making- defrosted and used two in the pear and rasberry conserve, erm....last week?or so 
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| Nick |
Lemons dry out, but I can't remember anything ever growing on one. So, I'd imagine they're pretty stable if kept in a non-drying out way. | ||||
| Sherbs |
Didn't people use to salt lemons to preserve them at one time?
Sounds disgusting to me but I have this vague memory of a reference to salted lemons. |
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| Nick |
Yep, and they are delicious, in a tagine. | ||||
| Rob R |
Mine are going in lemon & lime marmalade, like the last lot but this time I won't use half the limes and have to substitute them with a grapefruit.  Still, it tasted good, just the grapefruit overtook the lemon & lime flavour a little.
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| vegplot |
Add some oil, chillis and pickles, leave for a few months in a cool cupboard. |
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| sean |
How to make preserved lemons, by me. | ||||
| Sherbs |
Beginning to wonder if it wasn't here I heard about them in the first place. | ||||
| yummersetter |
Really? One of the vilest smells is a mouldy lemon in the back of the fridge, on a par with rotting mouse underneath one. You obviously have superior housekeeping skills |
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| Nick |
Perhaps I just drink more gin. | ||||
| Rob R |
But if they're kept in the fridge then they do dry out, so perhaps a wet lemon doesn't decay? I may sacrifice a lemon in an air tight container in the back of the fridge for several months in the interest of Downsizer food science. |
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| sean |
If you hadn't installed a woodburner you wouldn't need a fridge. Will no-one think about the poor polar bears? 
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| Rob R |
Remind me to never visit you in winter... nor summer.
As it happens Ixy was thinking about them yesterday- did you know there is only one polar bear in this country? How cruel is that, where are the polar bears rights people now? |
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| sean |
I've got a woodburner *and* CH. And a fridge. I was relying on you to save the planet.
On the polar bears I assume that there's only one because we've stopped keeping them in zoos and this one is the last survivor. |
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| alison |
~Where is it? | ||||
| yummersetter |
Lonesome Mercedes | ||||
| Rob R |
Engineers build new home for polar bear in the Highlands | ||||
| Rob R |
But you live in Devon, which is practically on the Med. what do you need CH for. 
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| sean |
I don't really use it, it's just there. | ||||
| Rob R |
This stove has one disadvantage- I don't want to go outside now. 
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