Yesterday was a very "fruitful" day! First, my daughter and I went strawberry picking, which yielded 8 pounds of strawberries for us. We went strawberry picking about a week and a half ago, and I froze them plain, as well as 4 pints in simple syrup. We were going through them pretty fast (for smoothies), so I thought we should take advantage of them before the end of strawberry season.
Then in the afternoon a friend put out the word that her cherry tree had a broken branch, did anyone want to come pick sour cherries? So we headed out to pick cherries! We got almost 5 pounds, and this is the result:
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Well, at least the crack in the board is in focus (!).
It's a stormy afternoon, hard for taking pictures! |
It took a lot of work to pit all those cherries (even with a pitter), but the jam is so amazingly good! I'm thinking about going back early next week as I was invited to, and getting enough for another pie and a few more jars of jam.
I still have strawberries in my fridge to put up. I'm just going to freeze them, so that isn't too much work! I just need to do it!
2 comments:
I'm enjoying hearing about your preserving. It may inspire meto do more this year :)
So jealous!
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