Who wants to guess how many bags of peaches are in my dad’s freezer?
The answer is:
Too fucking many
This is gonna make … a lot of jam …….
So, I managed to fit all but one big bowl of peaches into the two stock pots …
An hour and a half later, here they are simmering away …
How long is it gonna take to reduce them to jam, you ask?? Fuck if I know at this size lmao
In case you were wondering, it is, in fact, longer than 5 hours, as I am still stirring this jam over the oven 🙂 🙂 🙂
Oh and also there was another large bowl of peaches in the other fridge that I did not see until later, so I did not in fact fit ALL the peaches into the stock pots
On a brighter note, the whole house smells like a Victorian Christmas dinner
Hello again friends, it is currently REAL JAMMING TIME and I have been in stirring hell for seven hours
Went through two whole containers of pectin and a bunch of cornstarch already and things are looking just PEACHY
So, uh, the first stock pot alone yielded 272 ounces, so I … may have accidentally made about 68 8oz jars of jam …… and I only had 36 jars …
Guess I’m going back to the store tomorrow … and going to have to join the local farmers market to sell them …
Anyway, TEN CONTINUOUS HOURS OF WORK LATER, here I am at around 3am sealing my first batch of jars … (entire other stock pot of jam lurks ominously in the background)
God, it’s like when you overestimate how much pasta you’re gonna end up with, only 300% worse
So I woke up today after sleeping like a log to fibd my dad had already gone back to the store (which is like 30 min away) and gotten me more jars because he saw that I needed them
As you can see one of those pachages is the wrong size jar (4oz) so we’ll see if I can fit all the jam into these suckers (plus the two 8oz ones I had leftover)
My dad also put all the jars of jam in the fridge, although since they were all properly sealed (aw yeah) was totally unnecessary lol
He said he accidentally dropped one on the way to the fridge but I checked and it amazingly A) didn’t break, and B) remained properly sealed, so hats off to Ball corp, and also me I guess
Update: WE BE JAMMIN’
Spices I used for this recipe:
-Cinnamon
-Nutmeg
-Ginger
-Allspice
-Vanilla Extract
The combination worked out very well!
Gotta can the rest of it after I eat tho 😛
So, I FINALLY managed to can all the jam, except for like … 6 oz of it, so I made shortbread cookies to use that with 😉
Altogether I did end up with 72 jars of jam, 12 of which are the 4oz size though. What the fuck am I gonna do with all this jam, jesus christ
Anyway, thanks for coming to my jam-filled TED talk guys, take care
The ‘It’s A Wild Animal’: For some reason believes that their cat, which has been domesticated for over 10,000 years, is actually still a wild animal. Will argue that cats should be free and wild because it’s ‘natural’. Probably won’t be able to explain why this doesn’t apply to dogs.
The ‘My Cat/s Lived X Years’: For some reason believes that because their own cats beat the odds, the danger of the outdoors is nonexistent. Likes to ignore the statistical information that shows on average that cats allowed to freeroam outdoors have a shorter lifespan than cats who aren’t.
The ‘My Cat Hardly Ever Kills’: Generally believes that whatever their cat brings back represents how much they are killing when cats actually do not bring back most of their kills.
The ‘My Cat Hates It Indoors’: Probably hasn’t done much to look up ways to convert outdoor cats into happy indoor cats. Probably also doesn’t provide their cat with enough stimulation and enrichment indoors.
The ‘Keeping Cats Indoors Is Cruel’: Probably doesn’t provide their cat with enough stimulation and enrichment indoors. Occasionally also just enjoys the perk of not having to scoop litter boxes. Basically, just wants to let the outdoors stimulate their cat rather than putting any actual time into doing so themselves. Will pretend they didn’t hear you if you bring up catios, cat harnesses, and cat fencing.
The ‘I Live In The Country’: Seems to have forgotten that wild animals exist. Probably doesn’t realize that some birds of prey are big enough to fly off with a cat.
The ‘I Don’t Live On A Busy Road’: Basically plays Russian roulette with their cat. Because it probably won’t be hit. Probably.
The ‘We Don’t Keep Cats Indoors Here’: Apparently thinks that where they live does not have any of America’s dangers and is, in fact, some sort of cat utopia.
me: accidentally hits my lock screen button while watching youtube
youtube: you wanna get youtube red?? you fucking dumbass?? you really think you can play videos in the background without youtube red?? you fucking useless bastard.
