Lemon Marmalade Extravaganza

When you have lemons ....make Marmalade!

(And use Meyer Lemons !)

A summer wedding prompted

 this marathon of Meyer Lemon Marmalade making 

The facts:

9 batches of marmalade to make 132 4 oz jars

Took 81 lemons= 9 lemons each batch

22.5 cups of sugar= 2.5 cups each batch

27 cups of water = 3 cups water each batch

We used the wonderful Pomona's Universal Pectin

and used only 5 or maybe 6 boxes total!

Follow their directions!!!

It's a wonderful pectin and I will never use any other.

and it really helps to have Chef Jay's kitchen available!

It took us a total of just 6.5 hours from start to finish

Notice please I am now allowing myself a beer! Whew!

Here's a photo of the marvelous pectin!

Used so little sugar compared to other

dextrose laden pectins- which made

our Marmalade much healthier and tastier.

So- where's the sunshine and lounging chairs????

Happy Weekend everyone!

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Magpie Tales #115....

image by Manu Pombrol

There once was a man from Mars
Who loved to read in glass jars
Not a Mason, a Ball or a Weck
What the heck?
I prefer the ones made by Kerrs
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This Weeks Favorite Photos!

A traded in clunker spotted in the back of a car lot...

not for sale....

OUr new chickens- they don't have names yet-

we just call them "the girls"
My all time favorite photo of myself!
Taking a photo of my foot with a butterfly on it.
This was taken by Doug at Hamma Hamma cabin.


Sign spotted in Lake Oswego storefront.
Shouldn't a psychic know where the good spots are?

Close up of just made pickles

I made 28 jars the other day-had to wait for

the hot spell to be over.....