jam – Orangette https://orangette.net Fri, 25 Dec 2015 03:26:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 The satisfaction https://orangette.net/2014/10/the-satisfaction/ https://orangette.net/2014/10/the-satisfaction/#comments Tue, 07 Oct 2014 23:02:00 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2014/10/07/the-satisfaction In early September, a kind reader in north-central Idaho left me a comment. Her name was Michele, and her Italian prune plum tree was promising a bumper crop: did I want some? This kind of thing does not happen all the time, or ever, so I said (yelled) yes. That is how it came to pass that last week, a box showed up on our stoop, containing almost ten pounds of plums cushioned in bubble wrap. I hauled it to the table and let it sit there for a couple of days, admiring it like an expensive flower arrangement, patting it softly like June’s head, before getting down to work over the weekend, freezing a pound of halved plums for…

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]]> https://orangette.net/2014/10/the-satisfaction/feed/ 71 You don’t forget https://orangette.net/2011/07/you-dont-forget/ https://orangette.net/2011/07/you-dont-forget/#comments Mon, 18 Jul 2011 03:14:00 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2011/07/18/you-dont-forget I may be too late for strawberries. I worry about that. But on the off chance that you can still get them where you live, and that they’re still worth eating, I will say: you should try this. And hurry. If it helps to get you out of the chair – because I can see that you’re still sitting there; I have powers – repeat after Melissa Hamilton and Christopher Hirsheimer: “a conserve of soft berries in a barely set syrup.” A conserve of soft berries in a barely set syrup! A conserve of soft berries in a barely set syrup!!!!!!! GO. Before we start, I should admit to a problem, and that problem is jam. I love to make…

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