{"id":177,"date":"2013-10-28T14:45:21","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T14:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/?p=177"},"modified":"2013-10-28T14:45:36","modified_gmt":"2013-10-28T14:45:36","slug":"sludge-splat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/2013\/10\/sludge-splat\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Sludge Splat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/500D_1733.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-176\" alt=\"500D_1733\" src=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/500D_1733-1024x682.jpg\" width=\"604\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/500D_1733-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/500D_1733-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/500D_1733.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/500D_1730.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-173\" alt=\"500D_1730\" src=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/500D_1730-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>It <a href=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/500D_1731.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"500D_1731\" src=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/500D_1731-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>had all looked so easy.\u00a0 The recipe for the scrumpy said chop up some ginger,\u00a0 squeeze four lemons (I had two and a half, but hey, who&#8217;s counting?).\u00a0 Then add a kilo of sugar.\u00a0 Then add the strained apple juice to the mixture.\u00a0 I had carefully sterilised a fruit strainer (for making jam) and this was the mixture, ready to go and looking good.\u00a0 I had carefully sterilised two jugs and another tub to move things in to as well.\u00a0 I looked very organised when I got to the filtering stage, but as you can see, it all went a little pear shaped.\u00a0 Thankfully my wife ran to the rescue and I mopped the floor afterwards with a slightly embarrassed expression on my face.<\/p>\n<p><em>(It was my intention to taste the blummin&#8217; stuff at some point before putting it away to ferment, but I was in such high dudgeon that I forgot.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll just be <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">patient<\/span>&#8230;)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/500D_1732.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-175\" alt=\"500D_1732\" src=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/500D_1732-682x1024.jpg\" width=\"604\" height=\"906\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/500D_1732-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/500D_1732-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/500D_1732.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It had all looked so easy.\u00a0 The recipe for the scrumpy said chop up some ginger,\u00a0 squeeze four lemons (I had two and a half, but hey, who&#8217;s counting?).\u00a0 Then add a kilo of sugar.\u00a0 Then add the strained apple juice to the mixture.\u00a0 I had carefully sterilised a fruit strainer (for making jam) and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/2013\/10\/sludge-splat\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Apple Sludge Splat<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[17,16],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","tag-bramley-2013-10-scrumpy","tag-scrumpy","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions\/179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}