Sunday, July 11, 2010

Grandmother's Two Coo Apricot Preserves

15 minutes at Larriland farms yielded 16 lbs of apricots. We did have the help of two expert pickers: Caroline Conner and Meredith Toering.



Caroline called Grandmother Conner (Isaac's Great Grandmother) to get her apricot preserve recipe: apricots, sugar, and patience. Grandmother's preserves are the best!

Here we are washing, pitting and cutting.



Matt almost got himself kicked out of the kitchen for wanting to take too scientific of an approach with something that was clearly an art. :)



One of the two pots...


When Isaac eats something he loves or is excited about he coos. His first taste of the preserves earned two coos!



Yummy!


And as a bonus: Isaac's first (and I'm sure not last) marker disaster.

4 comments:

Caroline Belle said...

yay! Such happy times!!!

Michael and Kim said...

Wow! Can we come for dinner? :)

Crissie said...

Thanks for these great pictures...please please please tell Matt to not eat all the preserves so we can try some. :)

& it is confirmed yet again that I will never ever buy markers....so I say now. :)

Ivy said...

that is great... especially matt cooking with his lab coat on. :-)