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Making potted meats – the first step
We slaughtered another two cockerels last week and the roasted them. That, however, was not the end of the story. We are planning to make potted meat though, due to lack of time, the cooked meat is now in the freezer. I've never made potted meats before so I will be looking up recipes soon.
This is all part of our plan to revive old skills and ways of preserving foods that used to be used commonly before the invention of the freezer.
Until 2009 I was working in London, UK, but I gave it up to pursue a life of self-sufficiency. My aim is to grow or forage for all my food, produce my own power and live a healthier and greener lifestyle. I left London to return to my home village of Sunniside, near Newcastle, in the North East of England. I have a couple of plots of land there as well as the garden of my house. Our village is a commuter area for Newcastle but we are surrounded by countryside which we use for picking wild foods. My mission in life is to show that it is possible to live well without destroying the planet in the process. I am also keen to ensure knowledge of historic recipes and cooking is kept alive. I regularly try out recipes from old cookbooks using the food we have grown. I make videos about our progress and about how to cook home-grown foods. These can be viewed on www.youtube.com/jonathanwallace.
www.self-sufficientinsuburbia.blogspot.com
Source: http://self-sufficientinsuburbia.blogspot.com/2015/12/making-potted-meats-first-step.html
