A few notes from this week. What to do with about 2 pounds of apricots that never really got sweet enough to eat? Grab that packet of pectin from the pantry and make some freezer jam.
Which would have turned out perfectly, but I forgot that you have to follow the recipe EXACTLY. I’m never that exact when cooking so now I have some not quiet set apricot jelly/syrup. It is good on toast, waffles and as a sauce for fruit salad.
After Mark got all of the pork back from the butcher he cut up about 40 pounds of lard for me to render for my soap making. In two bouts of lard rendering in my gigantic pot outside I now have about 25 pounds of lard. Hand milled soap is on the horizon. In preparation for more soap I ordered more fragrances from my fav online source: Bramble Berry.
Lastly, you just have to love Google images and the stuff you can find. I wanted to see how big my ewe’s udder should be close to lambing. Yes, I admit to my continued obsessing over my ewe’s and our first lambing. So after looking at numerous images I can rest assured that even though Snowball is huge she is not truly bagged up.
