The kids managed to pick over a gallon of raspberries so we made freezer jam. I tried to follow the recipe but simply cannot use that much sugar at once, so I put in less than a third of the sugar. It might make it a bit runnier, but hey, health is worth a little runny jam. Actually, I didn't think it was too runny and it was plenty sweet enough. We have twelve pints of jam.
Christina was begging to make bread yesterday and I put her off until today. Just as we were about to start an email came from my sister-in-law in Africa with a couple of recipes for Rosemary bread. We made the first one called Rosemary Olive Bread. We had several messy accidents... but the bread looks delicious. Can't wait to try it!
Steve sprayed the garden last night with some mild stuff. Didn't work. We picked salad and a great big savoy cabbage. We brought the veggies in the kitchen to clean and ended up dancing all over as the earwigs came crawling out and were running all over the place, even up my legs. We KILLED them all! Have to spray the stronger stuff tonight. I've never grown a big cabbage like this before. I think I am going to make cabbage pockets with it.
Raspberries
Posted by jrejhkids on Monday, July 7, 2008 at 03:22 - Link
The jam looks great. We picked our raspberries this morning and I canned 7 quarts, have enough to make four batches of jam, and we froze a little bit.
The cabbage looks great. Ours is just starting to form heads.
