Blackberry Jam
There are wild blackberry bushes all over the Wellington region. They are an invasive pest, and rather a nightmare because they form impenetrable thorny thickets. But they are good for jam.
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Hungarian Dress from the 17th to the 19th century
What was Hungarian court dress for women ca, 1800 as shown in Alex’s portrait, and how did it evolve from a style of dress worn by specific noble groups in what we now call Hungary to become díszmagyar: the formal court dress of Hungary under the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Recipe: Apple Butter in an old-fashioned pressure cooker
By popular demand, here is the apple butter recipe from yesterday’s post. There are MANY other ‘pressure cooker’ apple butter recipes on the internet, but I found that almost all of them use an Insta-pot or a Ninja or a ‘Fast-Cook-Please-Don’t-Explodalator’ (trying my best to imagine what Leonard of Quirm would have called a pressure cooker).