Canvolutionaries, Unite!
Sarah B. Hood didn’t intend to write a canning cookbook. This despite the fact that every summer her kitchen lives in the shadow of “a little tower of empty jars and boxes of full jars” and that her gooseberry ginger jam has won first prize at Toronto’s Royal Agricultural Winter Fair.
“I felt initially a little frightened when I volunteered,” Hood says, “as though my credentials might be a little slender — until I realized that I was the nine-year-old who tried to make dandelion wine from an antique recipe and attempted to dye fabric with flowers.”
Hood’s new cookbook, We Sure Can! ) and lengthy, thoughtful introduction is the giveaway that this is a brainy how-to. She even gets a bit heavy-jelly when looking at the potential malaise of modernity and how the canning community acts as an antidote, or at least helps strike a balance, with our increasingly virtual lives.
“On one hand we have the ability to connect with people in an almost imaginary sphere that we live in most of the time, presenting ourselves in almost imaginary ways, with avatars and multiple names,” she says. “But I think the corollary to that is that people want something concrete and go back to find things that put people together.”
To that end, Hood even suggests putting up jam as a DIY wedding memento, not only because at $2 to $3 a jar it’s both less expensive and more likely to be enjoyed than many other favours. Could the jamming bridesmaids shower be the latest trend, coming soon to a hipster wedding party near you?
Indeed, since the economic woes of 2008 there have been umpteen trend articles chronicling the supposed neo-jam movement or “canvolution,” as it’s been coined. But for Hood it’s more than just sentimental hipsters being willfully Luddite, or taking their aesthetic fetish for decorating with vintage Crown and Mason jars to the next logical step. “It’s a trend,” Hood concedes, “but I think it’s part of a bigger picture.
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Will anyone come out in support of the great British blancmange? Felicity's perfect panna cotta. Photograph: Felicity Cloake for the Guardian Panna cotta, as someone once memorably pointed out to Angela Hartnett in an early series of the BBC's Great
She chuckles recalling her childhood attempts at blancmange using the recipe from the side of a corn starch box, “because that's what they do in Little Women when someone's ill.” Hood is also hooked on a series of TV shows about Victorian farming.
Finally, I'll like to bookend this week's offerings with a Chinese pudding, a coconut milk dessert that is like the classic blancmange but with decidedly Oriental influences such as the addition of sweetened red bean paste.
Once exciting molecular gastronomy seems to be headed in the same direction, along with fusion cooking, packaged cake mixes and stodgy blancmange. While the food world appears fairly capricious at first glance, if you study trends you will notice that
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