Strawberry Picking!!! It was so much fun, we are going again this week...
so we picked 10 pounds of strawberries this day, then we went back when John got off work and picked again! 11 pounds that time! Then you may say "what did you do with all those berries?" well, let me tell you. I learned how to make jelly :-) yep! I washed, hulled and cut 20+ pounds of berries, made them into jelly, canned them myself and now I have...about....40 jars of strawberry jelly! (laughing) it's in the freezer, it's in the fridge, its everywhere! What was I thinking? So I guess I'll have to make some homemade bread to put it on! I already made biscuits from scratch and took warm biscuits to the neighbors with a jar of jelly...they loved it!
by the way, I dont' have a picture here, but since I was on the canning spree, I bought about 20 pounds of pickling cukes and made bread and butter pickles too! lets just say my fridge is full and if I was on the Oregon trail, well...we would have lots of jelly and pickles. I might have to barter one of my children for a loaf of bread though!
1 comment:
jarring jelly is a joy. we miss berry picking. and making jars of wonderful things. so proud of you. you can do everything! 5 kids, nurse, chineese, wow you really make it hard to live up to that sort of record. we will be in the states june 20
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