We’re taking the “Two For Tuesdays” theme rather literally today and posting twice for the event… one post from each of us….
One of our fruit and vegetables stores is selling baskets of the most fabulous peaches. They’re exactly right for eating NOW. You know the kind. When you bite into it, you can’t stop the juice from running down your chin and arms.
I was raving about the peaches to my sister and she casually mentioned that she had made peach jam last year.
me: [awestruck] You know how to can??
she: [casually] I took a course.
me: I’ve always been terrified of canning. [whistfully] I wish I knew how….
she: [casually] Do you want to make jam this weekend?
me: [jumping up and down and squealing] Are you kidding?? Yes!! How many peaches should I get? do you want to make apricot jam too? we love apricot jam! there are apricots now too. we have some jars already. how many jars do we need? what do [more non-stop incomprehensible ectatic babbling]
So we jumped on our bikes and peddled furiously through muggy thick air the short distance to the “expensive” vegetable store that always has really good fruit in the summer. (We got spectacular sour red cherries from them a couple of weeks ago.) I got a basket of incredibly fragrant peaches (no idea what kind but they had reddish skins and were so ripe they were almost bursting) and some apricots. The tiniest apricots I’ve ever seen but they smelled the most like apricots of all the apricots at the various nearby produce sellers. Then I got some jam jars and a packet of liquid pectin because it was the only pectin that wasn’t laced with fructose and dextrose. (continue reading…)















