Dear friends:
Huge computer crash, again. Sissy very very ill, all family gone for last
visit. Am back. Rebuilt email accounts finally.
Ol'Whiskers still keeping me warm.
Cats got their shots.
Now for the good stuff:
Made some really nice grapefruit marmalade, using surejel recipe for
orange marm, avoiding bitterness by only using only fruit supremes and
strips of zest with dandy new tool which scrapes long skinny curls. You
know
the one. Very nice stuff, and very delicate. Unusual color, orangey red.
Made Rachel Ray's caponata (mostly) to test for canning: Followed recipe
mostly. Added more olives and leetle more tomatoes. Won't publish because
I'm always fiddling with the recipe or what I got that can go in it. But
tested out at pH 3.85 soup, and pH 3.99 mashed. I felt very safe canning
in
BWB. But then I got dandy calibrated test meter. Hooha! I mean, Yeeehaa!
Next time I'll top off the caponata with a bit of tomato juice because
it's like salsa and bits are above the soup line.
More later,
Love,
edrena
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