Okay, the filled jars of marmalade (all four tiny eight ounce jars) are sitting submerged in the titanic pan waiting for the water to reach a "rolling boil" so they can be boiled for ten minutes. Will it take half an hour for the water to boil so I can boil the jars for ten minutes?
Recipes always take longer for me than they do in the cookbook. What I mean is if the cookbook says "fry onions till golden, about ten minutes" it always takes me about twenty minutes. Is it me? Does the author have a much more powerful stove than I do? Do they assume all their readers are yuppies who have professional stoves in their home kitchens? It's probably me.
It took me four or five hours to make that marmalade. I really just looked at the hour and not the minutes when I checked my watch at the beginning. It was eleven-something o'clock. So each eight ounce jar of marmalade represents an hour to an hour and fifteen minutes of my time. I should sell that stuff for big bucks! Except I think I might have made pear ginger marmalade flavored cement. It was hard to tell if that was jam "flaking" off the spoon or a chunk of pear so I just kept cooking.
It tastes good. Fay and I enjoyed licking the spoons. I also discovered that Fay likes to eat lime rind. What a weirdo.
Forty-five minutes later, here are the little suckers in person:
However the marmalade comes out I still feel pretty satisfied with myself right now.
2 comments:
They look delicious. When is mine getting here?
What's the pink jar after the "candy" jar say?
It really sucks that you have to get a migraine when you are making delicious food.... that is just plain rotten luck.
I hope it is gone... I can't believe you can cook and read and type on a keyboard when you have a migraine. You must have some kind of tolerance for pain!
Thinking of you on this beautifully foggy day!
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