Little batch of jam

[koshergrl]

My daughter and I went out this am and she picked a tiny bit of berries....enough for a pint and a half of jam. I'm happy because I have made exactly zero jam for two years...the berries came ripe then the temp dropped and was wet, which meant the blackberries rotted and molded.

So we went out this am and picked a tiny handful of huckleberries (which don't rot but are tiny and a pain to pick and clean) and she added a couple cups of blackberries to the collection before she got hungry.

I pulled all the canning paraphanalia out for one full pint of jam, and a half pint which I didn't even process but put directly in the fridge. We go through a lot of jam....

But the cool thing is I used the Foley and it was great!!!!

 

[koshergrl]

Berries and pectin

Add sugar bring to a boil

Snoop is resting.

 

[Pogo]

I loooove huckleberries. I have a secret spot near here I've been waiting for a ripening.

You clean them though? What for? You think they get sprayed?

What's a "Foley"? Far as I know it means sound effects.

 

[chao$]

Never expected you to own a pit bull.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

Reminds me of when I was a kid,we'd pick dewberries and mom would make pies and jam.
Damn KG! Thats twice in one week you've made me wax nostalgic....thanks.

There was an old black women that use to tell us. Never pick Dewberries by the train tracks no matter how thick they were(and they were always thick)because the conductor and caboose man pee'd of the trains.
It didnt take us long to figure out she was picking them for herself,but I gotta admit she had us going for a season.

 

[koshergrl]

 

[koshergrl]

Never expected you to own a pit bull.

 

[koshergrl]

Here's a vid on cleaning berries. Blackberries are easy, I just spray them off. But huckleberries have bugs, spiders, sticks, leaves, stems....this workds well.

 

[Pogo]

Here's a vid on cleaning berries. Blackberries are easy, I just spray them off. But huckleberries have bugs, spiders, sticks, leaves, stems....this workds well.

Somebody's a sloppy picker
I never pick leaves and twigs -- just the berries. I have a ton of blackberries on my land here, and I never spray 'em.

Bugs are protein.

 

[HenryBHough]

Fireweed flowers make a nice, delicate jelly but it's a shame to waste 'em when ther COULD be used to make a nice wine.....

 

[koshergrl]

Fireweed flowers make a nice, delicate jelly but it's a shame to waste 'em when ther COULD be used to make a nice wine.....

I was all gung ho to make blackberry wine but then the berries rotted on the vine two years running. Now I've lost the motivation.

 

[skye]

Jam looks delicious!!!

You have a beautiful family koshergrl!

and...Snoop is adorable!

Thank you for posting!

 

[koshergrl]

That's my eldest and his babies. Snoop was his first, lol. But he lives with me now (snoop does).

 

[koshergrl]

Picked some huckleberries this am, enough to make a jar or so. The spider situation eventually gets to me...not to mention the mosquitoes.

I know the pic is blurry...the bushes are loaded.

 

[koshergrl]

I don't know why that's upside down ha

 

[koshergrl]

One pint and two halfpints of huckleberry jam and it looks yum.

 

[PoliticalChic]

One pint and two halfpints of huckleberry jam and it looks yum.

I went to Chinatown this morn.....trade ya' two char siu bao for a pint of the jam....

 

[koshergrl]

That's a good swap....we've already gone through the half-pint of bberry jam in the fridge....I might break into the huckleberry jam just to make sure it's not poison....

 

[koshergrl]

Omg, the huckleberry jam is divine.

 

[koshergrl]

I made strawberry jam a few years ago with local berries...one of the neighborhood boys ate a whole pint of it with a spoon. This stuff is good like that stuff was...