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Kitchenware and garden tool seasonal favourites

At Odgers and McClelland Exchange Stores Duncan and Megan take care to select tools that you'll use in the garden and kitchen for decades to come. These are the goods you'll reach for daily. They are practical, elegant and beautiful. As one of our customers, Wendy, puts it they are "last-a-lifetime, hand-me-down" heirloom territory. Falcon enamelware, Fowlers preserving supplies, Stanley flasks, timber utensils, and Mason Cash ceramics seasonal favourites are go-to kitchenware essentials. You'll find pie dishes in multiple sizes, serving spoons and ladles, tea pots, baking and roasting trays, and serveware (plates, bowls, mugs, tumblers). Add to that gardening tools to make tasks easier from weeding fingers, secateurs, and classic trowels and forks, to potato harvesters, asparagus knives and our popular razor hoe multi-purpose gardening tool.

















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Preserving summer apricots for winter breakfasts

January 04, 2025

It feels good to be writing '1/25' with a permanent marker on the jars of the first batch of preserved apricots for the New Year. While not a great yield due to fruit fly, 10 bottles, it's still 'three weeks of breakfast fruit, only 49 to go' as Duncan sees it. We usually work our way through bottled apricots, plums, apple, and pear throughout the year. Every summer before bottling our first fruit I re-read some of our go-to references, including hand me downs from mum and dad, 1980s articles saved from The Land and Hobbyfarmer magazine. A game changer was a gift of the 1953 nineteenth revised edition of 'Fowler's method of bottling fruits and vegetables' by Joseph Fowler when managing director of Fowlers Vacola Manufacturing Co Ltd. This small book recommends the best sized bottles for different fruit and describes how to pack fruit and vegetables to achieve a 'pleasing result' when seeing bottled fruit through the glass. When I started following Fowler's instructions Duncan described my bottled fruit as 'CWA-worthy,' the highest compliment you can pay a preserver.