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I'm in the process of making the GYO (April issue) Rhubarb and Ginger jam.

It tells me to put the ginger in a muslin bag during cooking then take it out and chuck - I don't have a muslin bag or anything closely resembling one - could I
a) just chuck in chunk of ginger and remove at end
b) use an enclosed spoon-type tea strainer

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Suzie

Oh Piskie,

just fish it out at the end and compost it, thats what we do. Its easy to find at the end.

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updated Monday 28th April at 11.50hrs

Hah! you say that PW but when the OH puts pieces of ginger in dhal, they always seem to disappear, until they reappear on my spoon - yuck! Can't see how a lump of ginger will really cause a problem piskie, unless like me you don't like eating the stuff!

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Manda.

Yet Nature is made better by no mean
But Nature makes that mean; so over that art
Which you say adds to Nature, is an art
That Nature makes.

see that was my thinking PW but Snowdrop said 'well it says a muslin bag, so best you get one' and I was like 'yer well woteva coppa ' - always by the book that boy what what

drop, fish out, compost it is

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Suzie

you could always blend it first and just leave it in so it doens't end up on sbp's spoon

Tie a bit of string to it - easy innit?!

Not blue string though, a la Bridget Jones.....

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Resistance is fertile

That's quite an in-depth knowledge of Bridgette Jones Paul, something you want to share with us...?

*LadyWayne had to explain to me what you meant by the way. Honest.

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A simple dude trying to grow veg.

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Improvise, girl - have the Forces not heard of hankies?

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Hazel
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update Thu 03/07/2008...planning ahead...

ah see now Hazel hun - I said to SD can I use a hankie and he said 'nope, tis cotton not muslin'......

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Suzie

Why does it need to be religious cloth?

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i thought that too initially

Didn't the old style dried processed peas(marrowfat) have a muslin bag in the box?
Can you still get them though?

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oooooh pease pudding yum - oops sorry where were we - good idea BW

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Suzie

Would these be of any use?

Muslin Bag - Small Pagan Magic - Online Shop

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It didn't seem to bother my Seville Orange Marmalade which I made in January....

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Hazel
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update Thu 03/07/2008...planning ahead...

I use a jelly bag. Useful for wine making too

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cheers Hazel and Flums - I'll not be influenced by him again hehehe

Jam is made and it takes delish and looks reet good too

Next question:
How soon can one eat home-made jam?

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Suzie

As soon as the homemade bread is ready silly

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OK, how about the funny little bag that comes with the washing tablets? There's a new one in every box - we've got lots we haven't used and they are recycled for things like collecting together small bulbs, keeping labels in which always fall out of their packets....don't see why