Preserving class Sunday 20th of June 2pm to 6pm at ORTO Farm, Blampied.
I love foraging, I love growing and I want to make the very most of what I find and what I grow.
Preserving for beginners offers all the skills needed to preserve the taste of summer, the cool of winter and the red of autumn.
This class is jam packed with information.
In many preserving classes you are taught one to two recipes but rarely taught all the principles that underpin those recipes. Without an understanding of the principles you are left always wondering if what you have done will last, if it is safe and safe to share.
Preserving is easy, that is why so many home makers get involved, it is also very rewarding.
There is a great deal to learn initially and at first it can seem overwhelming, but once learned it is deeply gratifying, empowering and something valuable to share with others.
This is what you will learn in class:
• Acidity; it’s role in preserving, how to measure pH and what the pH should be
• How to determine the acidity naturally found in raw ingredients
• Elevation; how elevation affects preserving times, how to determine if you are at elevation and how to adjust for elevation
• Raw Pack and Hot Pack method
• The role of sugar, salt, heat, time, and acidity
• How to sterilise jars and when not to pre sterilise jars
• How to accurately pack food into jars
• Preserving Organisations and their recipes
• How does the Australian Fowler’s method differ from the The National Centre for Home Food Preservation
FOUR PRESERVES
We will make four preserves. They will be:
Jam – Hot Pack
Raw fruit packed in jars with sugar syrup – Raw Pack
Pickled gherkins – Raw Pack
Tomato puree for pasta dishes – Hot Pack
You will work in pairs to make one of the above preserves
These recipes will use either low acid or high acid foods giving us the opportunity to use our newly acquired preserving principles!
This class is for 8 students.
It’s a hands on class and you will be asked to partake in a range of simple activities, culminating in the preparation and preservation (by working in pairs) of the four recipes outlined.
Join me if you can! Much huge care, Mara
I would like to book for 2
Hello Alison! Very wonderful! Please visit the workshop tab on my home page to purchase tickets and for all details. Thank you a million, Grazie, mara
Hi Mara, l first met you (via email) through the Community Voice video project last year.
l’m interested in your preserving class please. Can you let me know if there a cost and if you have any places left please?
Regards Lyn
Ciao Lyn! Lovely to receive your message! Very lovely…there is a cost to the class which is $250…please visit the workshop tab on the home page of this website if you wish to book and for all details…much care, mara
Hello! and thank you and yes….I sent you an email…let me know if you got it. Much huge care, mara
Hello Mara, I am interested in this class but hoping to find out times and cost please. Kind regards, Mel
Hello Mel thank you very much for your interest …please go to the Workshop Tab on the home page to book a ticket. The class cost is $250…thank you very much.