Mixed Fruit Jam

On the way home from picking up Mr. C from daycare, things got a little hairy, so we stopped at Brad's and picked gooseberries, raspberries, currants, blueberries, and cherries. Mr. C ate about a quart. From about 1/2 hour of picking and eating and chatting, here's the jam results. I followed Elizabeth David's recipe or rather inspiration, which pretty much says put it all in a pie plate in the oven coated with sugar of some kind for until it seems right.

Here my recipe:

1.25 cups brown sugar (because I am out of all other types of sweet thing)
2.25 pints fruit

oven at 425 for I guess it was about an hour and a half.

I canned the jars for 15 minutes in boiling water.
The yield wasn't much, but, oh how good it will tatest some time next winter when we can recall this bucolic day of sun and rain and music and fatigue and total bliss. Summer.

Jam

Managed to make preserves w/ all of those cherries, and one little 1/8 pint of jam (which was preserves cooked another 15 min). The jam is the little jar with darker contents. mmmm. The big jar in the back is preserves, but I have in mind making a pie with the contents for Valentines day....

Sour Cherries

Picked 2 gallons sour cherries from a friend's orchard yesterday for preserves.

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Cut little incisions about 1 cm all over the meat. Marinate leg in olive oil and a rub of fav spices and or chopped fresh herbs and olive oil, possibly soy sauce for as long as possible. Insert into a 450 oven for 1/2 hour then, turn it down to 400 for another 45 minutes to around 140 or so deg F temp.

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