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Preserves

elderflower syrup image sasasunakku

*Short trips are awesome. I’ve always been a quit-my-job-and-travel-until-my-money-runs-out kind of person but living on The Continent (an anachronism I know, but it nevertheless (or therefore?) amuses me) has awakened me to the pleasures of three-day jaunts.

*In extremely rural mountain villages in valleys in the Bregenzerwald there are people whose houses were built in the shade (Schattasitta in dialect or Schattenseite in high German) and those whose houses stood in the light of the sun (Sunnasitta or Sonnenseite). Both are prejudiced against the others and ne’er the twain shall meet!

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powidl pictureIt took me a long time to make this Powidl (pronounced: po-viddle), a thick Austro-Hungarian plum butter. I don’t mean that it’s an especially time-consuming process (it is, but the hands-on time is negligible) or that it’s difficult (it’s laughably easy). It’s more that sometimes (ok, constantly) I ramp up the difficulty factor of things in my head far more than necessary. It was this: the idea of preserving stuff scared me a little.

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