Experiments in Canning

We were shopping at Sam’s club a while ago and found that they had persimmons on sale for a really good deal. I also picked up a 3 pound bag of cranberries. I initially picked up one bag, and as we were eating those persimmons I had the thought, to try to can them. So I sent Kyle back for some more. I also got a couple of 3 pound bags of cranberries. I started by making some cranberry jam, and some spiced cranberry jam. I really can’t tell any difference between cranberry jam, and cranberry sauce though.

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Then I made some persimmon jam. The recipe I found online called for a lot of lemon juice and as soon as I poured it in the whole pot smelled like lemon. I think if I every try to make persimmon jam again, I will reduce the lemon juice slightly to hopefully get more of the persimmon flavor.

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My last experiment was to can persimmon slices. This experiment failed, big time. During the canning process the persimmons created this think slime in the jar. When we opened a jar and tasted them, they just tasted like they had gone bad. 🙁

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Getting Ready for Baby

We are getting closer to baby’s arrival, and it’s time to be making preparations. So last night Kyle moved our giant bed over about a foot, and I put the bassinet together. The little ones were attracted to the bassinet when they saw it this morning.

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In between pulling Adam out of the bassinet, I unpacked other newborn baby stuff into the drawers of the dresser to get ready for baby. 🙂