Beth & Ben's Crafts

Follow our adventures in homemade bitters, infusions, cordials, liquers, digestivos, and canning

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The calendar and the flowers say it’s fall but the weather and the produce ⁦@EvanstonMarkets⁩ say it’s still summer: Swiss Gourmet apples, tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, haricot vert, lima beans, corn and cantaloupe.

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and two jars of strawberry jam and six of rhubarb ginger jam. It was a good season!

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two jars of strawberry syrup…

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strawberry rhubarb gin cordial…

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strawberry rhubarb vodka…

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one quart of rhubarb sauce…

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17 lbs of rhubarb and 10 quarts of strawberries results in one rhubarb and four strawberry rhubarb pies…

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Summer ⁦@EvanstonMarkets⁩ in full swing: cherry tomatoes, baby artichokes, season’s first corn, green beans, last English peas, tomatoes, baby dill, English muffins, and cucumbers.

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A hot week has changed what’s on offer ⁦@EvanstonMarkets⁩. But the farmers managed to squeeze out one more week of strawberries and rhubarb. By the end of this week, we will have used 10 quarts of strawberries and 17 pounds of rhubarb!

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⁦@EvanstonMarkets⁩ #LyonsFarm rhubarb always makes the most beautiful, vibrant rhubarb sauce!

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Spring is turning into summer ⁦@EvanstonMarkets!

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First jam of the season!

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Pickling and preserving season has begun!

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A sure sign that summer is on the way! And ⁦@EvanstonMarkets⁩ starts on Saturday!

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Something new for the season vodka and gin with cranberries and aromatics.

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It’s been a few weeks since we have been to ⁦@EvanstonMarkets⁩ Summer is in full swing. Lisianthus, sunflowers, heirloom tomatoes and cherry tomatoes, sweet cherries, cakes, dill, French market carrots and corn

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This week ⁦@EvanstonMarkets⁩ lots of surprises! More strawberries and rhubarb, both of which I thought were finished. Ramier cherries, heirloom tomatoes, extra sweet cherry tomatoes, Parisian market carrots, English peas. baby Harukei turnips, baby zucchini, protea onions

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The haul from two weeks ago became more strawberry rhubarb vodka, more strawberry syrup, strawberry rhubarb pie, and a first time experiment in strawberry preserves that turned out pretty well.

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Early summer is in season ⁦@EvanstonMarkets⁩: a surfeit of strawberries, sweet cherry tomatoes, heirloom tomatoes, Swiss chard, baby squash, English pease, radishes, last of the season rhubarb and peonies. Lots of work to do!