Cooking, Quilting, and Other Creature Comforts: Crabby Apple Jelly

Monday, September 12, 2011

Crabby Apple Jelly

Three kinds of crab apples, and a bowl of highbush cranberry

Boiling the cranberry.

Straining the apple pulp for clear jelly

Mashing the crapapples into sauce for apple butter

Dripping the boiled sauce off the spoon to check for pectin development. Here it wasn't yet ready.
It took a lot of boiling.

Crabby apple jelly, and apple butter tinted with pink from cranberries. Yummy.

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Music Memories

My oldest daughter told me she is practicing piano again. It took me back many years.
Fur Elise. The Swan. The Homecoming. Those songs always remind me of warm spring days, early spring, before the grass is fully green, but the wind is wonderfully warm. I have the door at the farm open, and great gusts of balmy wind breeze through the house. I am baking something in the kitchen, and someone is practicing on the piano in the living room. Over and over the stanzas happen, a little farther, and a little better every time. The sweet notes of the songs mingle with the other senses, and it produces a feeling that all is well and as it should be. I do love those songs.

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Monday, September 12, 2011

Crabby Apple Jelly

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