Storing & Making Your Own Food

Vegetable growers are interested in what they eat - they know what's involved in actually producing their own food and this section provides general advice on what to do next.

Although we have a large recipe section, the basic techniques can be a found in here along with more general articles about food.

• Storing the Surplus - How to Freeze Vegetables, Foods and Blanching Time Chart
• Storing the Surplus - Potatoes and Root Vegetables
• The Spudbin Potato Store
• Making Butter How to Make Your Own Butter
• Making Cider - How to Make Your Own Cider
• Bread Making - Baking Bread at Home
• How to Bake Bread at Home - Method
• Shaping the Loaf - Different Shapes you can Make
• Chorleywood Industrial Bread Making Process
• Making Pastry - How to Make Pastry
• Basic Guide to Making Pastry
• Making Filo Pastry
• Making Cheese Pastry
• Making Choux Pastry
• Making Flaky Pastry
• Making Fleur Pastry
• Making Hot Water Pastry
• Making Potato Pastry
• Making Puff Pastry
• Making Rough Puff Pastry
• Making Short Crust Pastry
• Making Suet Pastry
• Making Cheese at Home, How to Make Cheese
  • Making Cottage Or Curd Cheese
  • Making Cheese Introduction
  • Making Cheese Equipment
  • Making Cheese Ingredients Pt 1
  • Making Cheese Ingredients Pt 2
  • Making Cheddar Cheese at Home
• Bottling & Canning at Home
  • Bottling (Canning) Preparation
  • Bottling (Canning) Methods
  • Bottling (Canning) Time Charts
• Drying Food
  • Drying Herbs
  • Drying Fruit & Vegetables
• Making Jams & Sweet Preserves, Conserves
  • Making Jam & Jelly - Equipment
  • Making Jam & Jelly - Ingredients
  • Making Jam & Jelly - Methods
  • Making Marmalade
  • Making Fruit Butters & Fruit Cheeses
  • Making Fruit Curd
• Preserves
  • Making Chutney - How to Make Chutney
  • Making Pickles - How to Make Pickles
  • Making Relishes - How to Make Relishes
  • Making Sauces & Ketchups - How to Make Sauces & Ketchups
  • Making Flavoured Oils and Vinegars
• Making Your Own Home Made Sausages by Gardenfarming Sue
• Home-Made Sausage Ingredients: Meat, Fat & Rusk (Fillers)
• Home-Made Sausage Ingredients: Liquids, Flavourings, Casings (skins) etc.
• Home-Made Sausages: Equipment, Processing & Cooking
• Ethical Meat for Sausage Making
• Raising Your Own Pigs
• Wild Food
  • Wild Foods by Stephen Watts
  • Everything Is Food!
    • Edible Plants by Stephen Watts
    • Edible Plants - Trees by Stephen Watts
    • Edible Plants - Fruit Trees & Shrubs by Stephen Watts
    • Edible Plants - Blackberries by Stephen Watts
    • Edible Plants - Perennial Greens by Stephen Watts
    • Edible Plants - Herbs by Stephen Watts