I hate winter and that inspired me to talk about peaches…..because summer = peaches. True to Linden’s history of being the biggest export region of peaches to Europe in the 1930’s, we want to stock Joburg’s best home made canned peaches. If you understand the art of canned peach making (or simply want to use…
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100% organic Hartland honey on its way to the Whippet – Meet Linden’s local beekeeper
When Jaco spoke to Ursula, one of our friends, she mentioned her brother was a beekeeper, I then asked her where her brother stayed………Linden! I could not believe it, Linden has it’s own beekeeper and he lives in 8th street! I immediately set up a meeting to tell him about The Whippet story and asked…
So what has happened in the past 10 days? The Whippet is taking shape…
Firstly I have to appologise for being so quite – the last few days have gone by so quickly and The Whippet is taking on great shape, due to the great help from the people of Linden and everyone following the blog and us on Facebook. We have now received 1,200 visitors to our page…
First Architect drawings on its way! – What should we choose?
Dirk our architect is presenting the first set of drawings for the shop design to us at 16:30 today! What do you think we should go for?
How to make canned peaches – our 100 year old South African recipe.
Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring and because it has fresh peaches in it – Thomas Walker. I have a vivid image of Sunday lunches that fill the memory of my childhood… Sitting around the dining room table with my parents, my brother and myself enjoying…
Cappuccino anyone? What’s your favourite – you choose the Linden Blend………
Some like it skinny, others like it hot, some like it with wings, other prefer it in their favourite mug……yes I am referring to cappuccino. We all have a favourite , it also reflects the way we feel ….” skinny cappuccino for me please”. Coffee drinking in South Africa has exploded, we have moved from…
Hot Chocolate anyone? or should we call it Liquid Cocoa?
Making Liquid Cocoa is tough Joburg is freezing over and what better reason to attempt to create Joburg’s best hot chocolate – not the normal, milky, powder stuff you get charged R20 for, but a real decadent sip of the best liquid cocoa you can find. I decided to show you some of the photos…
History becomes our furniture?
I challenged the team in making sure that Linden truly runs through our veins, and what better way than through the use of photos. So I popped in to our local High School – Hoërskool Linden – after receiving the most amazing welcome from all the office ladies (Dankie tannies) – to get some photos…
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