No, I don't mean preserving in general, we'd hardly survive without
doing lots of it.
What I mean is preserving grape vine leaves for making dolmades. We
really like dolmades and did the grape leaves yesterday.
Spent hours picking the perfect leaves, snipping off the stems,
washing, blanching, tying them in rolls, sterilizing jars, packing
rolls in jars, making brine, pour over rolls, BWB processing jars.
Most of the afternoon got us a grand total of three jars, about 70
leaves each.
We could have gone to the local Mediterranean market and bought a jar
of 100+ preserved grape leaves, ready to go for CDN $2.89
Maybe I'm just getting lazy in my old age ;-).

Ross.