^_^ Yeah.. I have warm memories of my great grandmother and canning. I spent summers working at her farm when I was little. My favorite was blackberry jam. I'd spend hours out in the briars picking blackberries and then we'd make it into jam.
Until a few years ago, I had neighbors who had a really old orchard and I'd give them vegetables from my garden and they'd give me fruit from their trees. Anyhow, they had a quince tree and didn't even know the fruit was edible so they let me have all the fruit. Heh. In a year our friends went from saying, "Quince? What's that?" to, "Um... Are you going to make more of that quince butter this year?" :) (We gave a lot of it to friends (and our neighbors too, of course!) as christmas gifts. :) It's a little more coarse than apple butter and a little more tangy but it also has this undefinable spice flavor that we really enjoy. :)
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Date: 2007-10-15 05:59 pm (UTC)Until a few years ago, I had neighbors who had a really old orchard and I'd give them vegetables from my garden and they'd give me fruit from their trees. Anyhow, they had a quince tree and didn't even know the fruit was edible so they let me have all the fruit. Heh. In a year our friends went from saying, "Quince? What's that?" to, "Um... Are you going to make more of that quince butter this year?" :) (We gave a lot of it to friends (and our neighbors too, of course!) as christmas gifts. :) It's a little more coarse than apple butter and a little more tangy but it also has this undefinable spice flavor that we really enjoy. :)