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When my kids were younger, I made just about everything. There was no bought bread or jam in our house (at the time, of course, they didn't appreciate it - now if I manage to make a batch of bread my oldest daughter seems to know and shows up and snitches one!).
If I made crabapple jelly, I could never keep it! My son loves it! Now that he has his own family and his in-laws found out how he loves crabapple jam/jelly they make sure they have some for him. I don't rem. ever trying apricot jam. Might have to get my things out and next time try that - sounds so good!!!!
38558Now this does sound like Christmas Time in Australia!!!
I can smell it now..... apricot jam simmering in a country kitchen. Boy, Oh Boy!!! does that bring back a stack of hot, sticky memories... :}
We can't get a decent apricot tree to grow on our property. We do have a decent orchard which is the mecca for every parrot in the area, though. Does that count???
I go crazy for apricot anything, but jam is way up the top of the list. My marmalade is now far below, either.
AlmaG.
by vickiannette
08 Dec 2011
You are right about the sticky bit Alma, will have to wash my floor again!!!
17214Ooh! Vicki - that's my favourite jam too! Funny I just love the Angas Park apricots and buy them here in Newcastle. I've just sent a pack of their goodies to my sister in Tumby Bay for Christmas. A great company to deal with if you want to send hampers. Love Chris
by pennifold
08 Dec 2011
I sent Julie the $80.00 one - it's yummy!
I'll add the web address:
http://www.angaspark.com.au/hampe...
by emily16838
08 Dec 2011
Oh Chris you make eeverything fun...now I want that pack of goodies..... thanks for making me smile
234256I have also just made a stack of both apricot and 3 fruit marmalade (orange/ lemon and grapefruit). I make the apricot in the microwave but unfortunately have yet to find a good recipe to make marmalade in the same way. I will be taking a load up to Johannesburg when we go for Christmas. Sarah
by vickiannette
08 Dec 2011
Well done making it micro, I wouldn't have thought of that. But it would take too long with 7 kg
253108I make pineapple/apricot jam each year, almost didn't get any this year the dear ate all the fruit off the trees...lol!
by vickiannette
08 Dec 2011
don't have to worry about the deer, but one year the Hereford bull ate the tomatoes [that was funny]
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360439Apricot jam is my favorite. Yum. I believe airyfairy
it was that was recently making some too.
37638I get my apricots ready for jam and then freeze it until it is cooler to cook it
76409where do you live I will come and buy a jar or two! Love homemade apricot jam!
24342mmmm - sounds good. My mother always did canning and making of jams. I only did what we call "freezer jam", and used the wild strawberries that grew on our land in North Carolina. Tiny little berries, but oh so good.
by vickiannette
07 Dec 2011
I still do some 'canning', but I call it bottling because the fruit is put in Vacola Jars with rubber rings and clips. Then cooked in a special big pot/drum thing to seal properly.
44813I'm with you and just finished off a jar or apricot jam. Only I didn't make it and yours probably tastes a lot better. My grandparents and my parents had lots of fruit trees (minus the one my brother mowed over on the tractor) and several types of berries. Now I have to get to our berries before the deer eats them all.
by vickiannette
07 Dec 2011
I had to buy the apricots, but we do have a huge mulberry tree which nearly always gives us more than we can eat. They will be ripe in a couple of weeks.
by vickiannette
08 Dec 2011
The mulberries are black when ripe, and red when not. they grow on a tree, not a vine and silk worms eat the leaves [but we have not had any silk worms since my children were at school in the 1980's
by dlonnahawkins
08 Dec 2011
Oh - I ate mulberries when I was little back in Nebraska - my mother used to fuss at us, for we got that purple stain all over our clothes, and feet. Mmmm - fond memories of good things to eat.
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