I have not posted since November. Primary reason is that garden things were pretty much done, hunting was done, and I have posted before about the things we were doing, which in December is primarily eating the things we grew/caught/killed prior to that month.
So here we are in a new year, and what am I doing? Still making jellies and fruit preserves. This is not one day’s work in the picture above, but is about half of what I have done, and does not include all that was given away for holiday presents. We got a lot of cherry preserves done, along with a wonderful hot pepper/sour cherry jelly which is already nearly gone, after giving away most of that as gifts. (people expect it)
As an FYI, 8 lemon drop peppers pureed into a standard batch of sour cherry jelly. Cherries were a mix of Nanking and North Star.
I have about 2 gallons of fruit and purees to work through yet, so maybe another 24 pints to go. Will end the year with about 60 pints put away, which I feel is a good amount, even if I was a bit late finishing it up.
Fruit list is as follows: Sour Cherries, Wild Blueberries, Strawberries, Blackberries, Raspberries, Currants, Raspberries, and Mangoes (they were on sale and I could not resist)
