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Blueberry Season!
Aug. 7th, 2013 09:27 amWell.
I was going to get ten pounds of these really lovely organic blueberries. Then I lucked into 25lbs instead, but they are super, super ripe.
PRocessing for the farm, I ended up trying this blueberry basil jam recipe: http://www.loveandoliveoil.com/2011/08/blueberry-basil-preserves.html . I didn't follow procedure (dumped it all in a pot except pectin, boiled the hell out of it for about 5 mins, added pectin, 1 min boil, canned it) and it was super, super tasty but set really hard. Like, the lids popped off some jars in the canner and the jam just sat there, super jars. I mean, it was nice and jammy, not like a jello-texture, but still.
So I came home and did it minus pectin. It turned into a lovely thick syrupy stuff. It'll be pancakes/oatmeal/gin'n'tonic fodder come winter.
So at the moment I'm just short of 5 cases into my goal of one jar per winter day. I'm doing some blackberry picking later this week, I'm only halfway through the blueberries, and I need to do a bunch of green bean pickles, zucchini relish, and turnip pickles. Oh, and later on, sauerkraut.
In other news, it's so humid here the basil just will. Not. Dry. Argh! I go through about a 1L jar of dried basil per winter, and if I can't get it to go, I'm in trouble.
I was going to get ten pounds of these really lovely organic blueberries. Then I lucked into 25lbs instead, but they are super, super ripe.
PRocessing for the farm, I ended up trying this blueberry basil jam recipe: http://www.loveandoliveoil.com/2011/08/blueberry-basil-preserves.html . I didn't follow procedure (dumped it all in a pot except pectin, boiled the hell out of it for about 5 mins, added pectin, 1 min boil, canned it) and it was super, super tasty but set really hard. Like, the lids popped off some jars in the canner and the jam just sat there, super jars. I mean, it was nice and jammy, not like a jello-texture, but still.
So I came home and did it minus pectin. It turned into a lovely thick syrupy stuff. It'll be pancakes/oatmeal/gin'n'tonic fodder come winter.
So at the moment I'm just short of 5 cases into my goal of one jar per winter day. I'm doing some blackberry picking later this week, I'm only halfway through the blueberries, and I need to do a bunch of green bean pickles, zucchini relish, and turnip pickles. Oh, and later on, sauerkraut.
In other news, it's so humid here the basil just will. Not. Dry. Argh! I go through about a 1L jar of dried basil per winter, and if I can't get it to go, I'm in trouble.
