Mmmm. Avocado and tomato, a splash of olive oil and vinegar, salt, pepper and eat. Damn I'm good.
Also this weekend was plum harvest. We have four Italian plum trees. These babies are tasty sweet. We have so many I have to give them away at work. Wish I knew how to make plum jam. 
Monday, September 17, 2007
What we're eating.
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Those plums look great! Preserving is hard, but rewarding ...
That was a tasty snack.
Kay, tell Michelle how to can those plums.
Nik -- how do you feel about boiling and dish washing? There's no canning without lots of boiling and dishwashing. If you get past that there's also peeling and pitting ...
I'm a dishwashing motherfucker, so that part's covered. In a pinch I can even boil. And the eating, of course, I don't mind.
It's the peeling and pitting that don't sound so great.
grandma used to make raspberry and blackcurrant jam and preserves. Separately not together. It did involve about a full day of boiling and lots of sugar. It also requires jars that vacuum seal. It was wonderful, jam and preserves that lasted all year. However, as you work, you would have to realize that that would mean you would lose a weekend. Grandma didn't do it anymore after she started working. Also, the plums seem to be damsons.
me again. I just wanted to point out that what I meant was, after Grandma got a job outside the house. She worked harder in the house than anyone I have ever met at any job at any level. Life was different back then.
How do I? ...Make Jam & Jelly
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Making Jams and Jellies
Plum Jam
without added pectin
2 quarts chopped tart plums (about 4 pounds)
6 cups sugar
1½ cup water
¼ cup lemon juice
Yield: About 8 half-pint jars
Procedure: Sterilize canning jars. Combine all ingredients; bring slowly to boiling, stirring occasionally until sugar dissolves. Cook rapidly to, or almost to, the jellying point (which is 8°F above the boiling point of water, or 220°F at sea level). Stir constantly to prevent sticking or burning. (See Testing Jelly Without Added Pectin.)
Pour hot jam into hot, sterile jars, leaving ¼ inch headspace. Wipe rims of jars with a dampened clean paper towel; adjust two-piece metal canning lids. Process in a Boiling Water Canner.
Table 1. Recommended process time for Plum Jam in a boiling water canner.
Process Time at Altitudes of
Style of Pack Jar Size 0 - 1,000 ft 1,001 - 6,000 ft Above 6,000 ft
Hot Half-pints
or Pints 5 min 10 15
Who you calling a damson?
I brought a bag of plums with me to work today and ate about eight of them. Do you think I will have "repurcussions?" Or is that just prunes? Or are they the same thing?
yum, fresh fruit right off the tree, I am so jealous. I check my fig trees every day, and there are currently a bunch of figs growing, but they will probably ripen while I am away and fall off the day before I get back. right now they just look like carbuncles. Oh well, next year. I have one orange on my orange tree, nothing on my peach tree. sigh.
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