What produce/ingredients did you buy or obtain today (2025)?

I'm still sneezing and blowing my nose so DH, who did not get my cold (not yet anyway), went to Dollar General for me and bought nine 6-packs of 16.9 oz Cokes. They were on sale 3 for $10 and then I had a digital coupon for $5 off $25 (which is why he had to buy 9 of them to use the coupon). That will keep us in rum and Cokes until sometime in May. He also picked up several boxes of facial tissues because I have gone through 3 boxes in just a couple of days. Hoping the sinus issues stop soon, it's way worse than my regular allergies.
 
3½kg homegrown grapes. They don't look much, but their taste is amazing, and so complex. It's not the supermarket grape taste of sugar and nothing else. So they are now washed and simmering away in my preserves pan, to be made into grape molasses for breakfast through winter (it will add to the existing fig molasses).


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msmofet said:
Do tell please.
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Barriehie said:
Yes please! Is it like a compote except thinner and sweeter?
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Any fruit molasses is just the fruit boiled in water, crushed and add much flavour extracted from the flesh/pulp extracted as possible, so wash and boil a couple of times and then boiled down to a thickish syrup. I've been making it for over a decade now. There are loads of options and you can purchase date molasses and grape molasses, plus many others online. It's mostly a Mediterranean way of extracting flavour and sweetness from things that would quickly perish in the heat of the Mediterranean.
 
SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
Any fruit molasses is just the fruit boiled in water, crushed and add much flavour extracted from the flesh/pulp extracted as possible, so wash and boil a couple of times and then boiled down to a thickish syrup. I've been making it for over a decade now. There are loads of options and you can purchase date molasses and grape molasses, plus many others online. It's mostly a Mediterranean way of extracting flavour and sweetness from things that would quickly perish in the heat of the Mediterranean.
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Thank you!
 
Roughly 3kg of red grapes has given 1½L of grapes molasses. I don't strain mine through a fine cloth to remove the stuff that came through my fine sieve. We find it holds a lot of flavour. This is the thickness of honey and just as sweet.

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Typically we'd put a tablespoon or so on porridge in winter in place of straight sugar.
 
SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
Roughly 3kg of red grapes has given 1½L of grapes molasses. I don't strain mine through a fine cloth to remove the stuff that came through my fine sieve. We find it holds a lot of flavour. This is the thickness of honey and just as sweet.

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Typically we'd put a tablespoon or so on porridge in winter in place of straight sugar.
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All this banter about fresh fruit molasses' so I'm going to have to make some. What I can't find to buy here is pomegranate molasses and I'm too cheap to buy it online. I can get organic juice and boil it down like you mentioned.
 
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