Sandy's Preserves Factory

Hullo... Cousin Astrid was here a few weeks back and she had fun picking fruit from the trees in the backyard... prune plums and pears... lots of prune plums... lots of pears. Good thing it was a rainy weekend.

I supervised while the humans cut up the pears... into lots of bowls...

Many bowls...

On the stove... we have the water bath ready to go on the right... and the stock pot has...

Pears burbling away...

And the soup pot has... pears steaming away...

Did I mention we have lots of pears?

 We also have some freshly made plum chutney... a perennial hit with anyone who tastes it...

Squeezo is ready to go and process the pears...

And over here we have the crock pot...

We have lots of plums so we are trying plum butter...

The plums have been cooking on high for 4 hours... now we are going to whizz them up (as Beanie would say)...

 There we go... now we cook them on low, without the lid, for a few more hours.... (many more hours)

And... at the end of it... what did we have...

Well we had some jars... but you're going to have to back up a bit...

Nope... back up just a wee bit more...

There we go!!! Whaddya think?

Not bad, huh?

We made apple sauce, pear sauce, plum chutney, plum butter and canned some tomatoes. Whew!!