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Strawberry jam aka syrup
Jul 7, 2008 | 5:35 AM PST
Tags: Strawberries , jam , canning
My daughter and I bought a beautiful flat of strawberries from the berry farm down the road and made our very 1st batch of jam. But alas they turned out to be more like strawberry syrup. We got the recipe off the internet which called for pectin but it said you only had to bring it to a boil, add the rest of the sugar, bring back to a boil and boil for one minute exactly. Needless to say we won't use that recipe again. We figured it cost us $1.90 for each 1/2 pint jar of syrup (HA) because we had to pay $22 for the flat of beautiful fresh berries and the jars from Walmart. I guess we need to find a new recipe. We were being lazy and didn't want to cook the berries for 30 to 60 minutes. Well it was a learning experience for sure.
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Jul 7, 2008 | 5:35 AM PST
Tags: Strawberries , jam , canning
My daughter and I bought a beautiful flat of strawberries from the berry farm down the road and made our very 1st batch of jam. But alas they turned out to be more like strawberry syrup. We got the recipe off the internet which called for pectin but it said you only had to bring it to a boil, add the rest of the sugar, bring back to a boil and boil for one minute exactly. Needless to say we won't use that recipe again. We figured it cost us $1.90 for each 1/2 pint jar of syrup (HA) because we had to pay $22 for the flat of beautiful fresh berries and the jars from Walmart. I guess we need to find a new recipe. We were being lazy and didn't want to cook the berries for 30 to 60 minutes. Well it was a learning experience for sure.
So happy the weather is warming up
May 31, 2008 | 7:18 AM PST
Tags: weather , shade gardens
We had a frost here Wednesday morning on the 28th of May. Luckily nothing was hurt except for some coleus in the window boxes. i looked up the record highs and lows for that day in history and found out that it was 32 degrees back in 1907 and the high was like 91 in 1912. Or something like that. I came across this website from thriftyfun.com when I linked to an article about lamium imaculatum. It looks like a good plant for the shade around my daughters tree where nothing grows.
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May 31, 2008 | 7:18 AM PST
Tags: weather , shade gardens
We had a frost here Wednesday morning on the 28th of May. Luckily nothing was hurt except for some coleus in the window boxes. i looked up the record highs and lows for that day in history and found out that it was 32 degrees back in 1907 and the high was like 91 in 1912. Or something like that. I came across this website from thriftyfun.com when I linked to an article about lamium imaculatum. It looks like a good plant for the shade around my daughters tree where nothing grows.
