Thursday, July 24, 2008

oh what do you do in the summertime...

Oh what do you do in the summertime when your neighbor brings you a box of apricots fresh off of her tree?



Do you make lemonade? NO, Do you sit in the shade? No!
Do you make Apricot freezer jam?? HECK YEAH!

First you Puree' the fruit




Then you stir in the sugar and lemon juice and pectin and pour into containers




Then you put all the yummy containers in the fridge to set up and then into the freezer!!! MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM





So, yes, in the midst of packing up, I found enough tools to do the freezer jam. I could NOT let them go to waste! And freezer jam is SO easy to do. I have done raspberry freezer jam, strawberry/peach/banana freezer jam and now apricot freezer jam!!
So this being Pioneer day, I thought I would put all that good heritage to use and make and preserve some fruit. My kids eat it like it is candy! So good in the winter.
So let me know what you do in the summer time!!

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

YUMMY! That jam looks good enough to eat ... on your homemade rolls that is!!! Oh, how I miss your cooking!

Blass Family said...

That Jam looks so yummy!!! I made freezer jam once yeah umm not so good! I will have to try again!

Brittany said...

Your freezer jam is the best! And I remember Nick and Caitlyn eating it like it was candy. How in the world did you find time to do that?

Jaime said...

I love that you have your camera ready to show us each step of the jam making process. It makes me grin! I think you should take more though & you could make a flip book of it :) That is wonderful that you made jam. Homemade is the best!