Saturday's pickings

And there was one more bag on the counter!

Done! (for now)

I just finished cleaning up the kitchen after my 81st pint of jam.  Most of the jam was apricot-pineapple, but I made a few batches of apricot-strawberry, 2 batches of apricot-cherry, and 1 batch of plain apricot.  The strawberry and cherry versions are ones that I've never tried before, but when I found some cherry juice and some strawberry puree in the freezer, decided to give them a whirl. They were VERY good!  (Besides, I had run out of pineapple!)  Trivia: I used about 50 lbs. of sugar!

I have just a few jars left, and I'm going to save them to make a batch of grape jam when the time comes.  For now, I'm DONE!

Very left: cherry-apricot.  Middle: strawberry-apricot.  Right: apricot-pineapple.

 

57 1/2 pints jam!

This is all the jam I've done so far this year!

My last batch on the stove.

Aren't they pretty?

Even after I spent the morning at the FHC, then went to the Orem library and to WalMart, (and am making tortillas for tonight's tacos very soon), I had time to make 2 more batches of Apricot Jam.  So pretty!
Oops!  Forgot an appointment at 4:30!  Rescheduled for 7:30

49 pints of jam

So far, I've bottled 49 pints of apricot-pineapple jam.  I plan on making 3 more dozen.  Off I go!

More apricots....

I canned 20 more pints of apricot-pineapple jam today.  I had to go buy sugar first.  I had 20 jars left, and knew I would want about 4 dozen more, but Sam's Club didn't have jars or pectin.  So I will get those tomorrow.  Five batches is enough for one day, right?

The apricot tree suffered some damage with the storm that came through on Saturday night.  This is a major break, but it shows you how heavy the apricots were! (The break is close to the trunk, and if you follow the branch that's laying on the ground up, you'll see it behind some leaves.)  The apricots on this branch are about ready to pick, so over the next couple of days those will get used.  Busy, busy, busy week!