Grapes
Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2018 2:35 pm
We started grape harvesting today.
I picked several bunches which produced 5.6 Kg of stripped large grapes for turning into raisins, and 1.6 Kg of small grapes for juicing. More to pick tomorrow but the dehydrator can't handle much more than 5.5 kilo.
Today's large grapes will turn into a shade under a kilo of raisins.
We need 3 Kg of raisins, and the same weight of sultanas later when the white grapes are ripe, to last a year for my daily fruit bun for my lunch, plus Christmas mincemeat, Dundee cake, Christmas puddings, hot cross buns, etc.
The small ones produced 1.4 litres of juice which will be slowly reduced to a syrup for sweetening stewed fruit and making some dried apricot jam.
I picked several bunches which produced 5.6 Kg of stripped large grapes for turning into raisins, and 1.6 Kg of small grapes for juicing. More to pick tomorrow but the dehydrator can't handle much more than 5.5 kilo.
Today's large grapes will turn into a shade under a kilo of raisins.
We need 3 Kg of raisins, and the same weight of sultanas later when the white grapes are ripe, to last a year for my daily fruit bun for my lunch, plus Christmas mincemeat, Dundee cake, Christmas puddings, hot cross buns, etc.
The small ones produced 1.4 litres of juice which will be slowly reduced to a syrup for sweetening stewed fruit and making some dried apricot jam.