Cordials, concentrates, syrups and squashes – there’s many names for these sweet and often fruity additions to good old fashioned tap water. In this video we preserve some of our summer harvests into concentrated sugary treats for quenching our thirst (and brightening up our G&Ts) on hot summer days.
We’ll show you how to make four different drinks: a simple orange squash, strawberry lemonade concentrate, watermelon syrup and cucumber and mint cordial.
All this takes place in our new (but still temporary) processing kitchen with some fancy new kitchen equipment.
We’ll show you the whole making process and wrap things up with a taste test full of descriptive words at the end. Stay tuned to see what happens…
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Can you please advise where I can purchase the book you referring to. I have tried to get it but cannot find it anywhere. Thanks
Should have peeled the cukes. As I'm sure you're aware, the skin of mature cucumbers is extremely bitter. Hope you'll try again, after adjusting your recipe. I've found that regular spearmint & peppermint don't stand up well to simmering. I was hoping the Moroccan mint was different. My 30 year old mint plants didn't survive the -10°F temps we had winter of 2020. I miss having refreshing mint tea in summer.
I have never made cordial you have made it look easy. Do you have a recipe for a combined fruit cordial. I could not find one on YouTube, also could you tell me the name of the book you are referring to. Thanks in advance.
I froze my orange juice not sure that was a good idea! I need to investigate pasteurising, thankyou
Loved to learn this! Cant wait to try, dont think we make cordials in pt, more syrups and similar drinks, thank you!
Does anyone know if demijohns are easy to find and buy in Portugal? They were filmed at 1:10 into the video. I have some lovely ones that can't make the trek over when we move but would love to buy some locally.
If you have any apples the cucumber and apple might work.
I have chocolate mint growing in my garden and it makes great tea. I think that I might try doing something like that with it too 👍. Thank you for sharing.
Rhubarb with the strawberries. Marriage made in heaven. If you don't have rhubarb, get some. This is my best culinary tip ever.
Just ordered the book. Thanks for the info
The acid in the lemon juice would have bleached the mint and cucumber green, just like it lightens a cup of black tea…
have you tried bread and butter cucumber pickles? Its delicious and ready in 2 days
Where is the recipe? Please post it 🙂
Awesome I’m going to try doing some myself
Thank you for sharing 😁
I just want to remind you, the fact that you didn't put the lemon juice with the cucumber and mint, makes a big difference in that taste. The other thing I will certainly experiment with those suttle tastes together, is to put fresh mint in the end serving as well as experiment to cook the water and sugar and just add the cucumber, mint and lemon after the cooking process to the hot syrup of sugar and water. That way one preserve the suttle taste of the cucumber, lemon and mint. It is certainly a delicious tea. We drink it often in the Karoo, in South Africa. Very delicious and helps a lot in our hot arid climate. Sorry, don't know the spelling of sutle? What will ginger do to that tea? With the lemon of course?
Great to see you in the house, thanks for giving me a glimpse of that Portuguese wooden door!
Fun! Learning many new ways to use fruits and vegetables, Brilliant. Looking forward to seeing your new setup!
Any idea where to purchase parts for refrigerators? Just arrived in Portugal and my parent’s fridge needs a motor As soon as possible.
Hi guys. You need to try to infuse vodka with mint and cucumber it's divine.
I think you need to take out the watermelon seeds. they would be bitter.
Hi- Thanks for shouting out about my book – hope it brings you years of joy.
Try the cucumber cordial with the same recipe but don’t cook it. You’ll have to keep it chilled and use it within 2-3 weeks. But it should have a flavor that is crisper and less tea like.
You could definitely do with a recipe book stand to keep that gorgeous cookbook looking nice. If possible wall-mounted. Maybe make yourself one? Could be industrial, or rustic, for example:
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Could you go into detail of your current Solar setup.
You seem to have done very well with the sizing on panels and Battery set if your running power tools all day as needed I.E Kaylie with the Hammer drill
Originally, in England, a cordial was a medicinal syrup to mute the flavor of the medicine; usually syrup of poppies that was added to the sweet, fruit flavored syrup. I had no idea the Brits called (Aussie) cordial "squash". If you get a lug lid that has lost it's grip, you can tighten the lugs with pliers; just don't squeeze too hard. You could make fruit leather from the watermelon pulp.
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Maybe the lemon juice for the cucumber will stop oxidising and will be lighter in colour
What make is your induction cooker 😃 Alway look forward and enjoy your videos 🌻🐈🤗🇬🇧😎
I had heard about cordials in books that I’ve read, but I had no idea what they actually were. I thought it was a liquor of some sort. Thank you for the tutorial video on making cordials.
Very interesting being as the watermelon wasn't ripe I didn't think it would have any flavour. I will try this out on a bought watermelon out of curiosity watch this space 🤞🤞