You managed to get me to think fondly of both my maternal grandfather and my paternal grandmother at the same time. My grandparents are only a few years younger than your parents. My grandpa is a creature of habit and simple food choices. He will eat the same things everyday unless one of us goes over and makes him something else. My grandma was the gardener and she was always putting up bags of frozen fruit for future use. The list included raspberries, strawberries, rhubarb, pears, and peaches. She always stewed the rhubarb before freezing and often used it to make strawberry rhubarb cobbler, which I adored. I would happily eat a mixed berry jam or a strawberry rhubarb jam. My grandpa is my last remaining grandparent and time with him is precious.
I'm up there in age, still cook everything I eat. Few days ago I made apricot preserves, fruit from the farmer's market. My neighbors are mad with joy when I give them samples. I make small batches, though, like that better. Favorite snack today: homebaked whole-wheat bread, yogurt cheese spread on, apricot preserve on top.
Watching this in 2023 and I think your parents had the right idea about having a very well-stocked larder. It's how our ancestors survived and how people will survive in the near future as the powers-that-be systematically destroy food production and delivery (unless you're happy eating bugs, that is). We live on an island and our climate is not the best for year round food production. People ignore that at their peril. Supermarkets will empty within hours if, or more likely when, the excrement hits the fan. Anyone who hasn't been storing long shelf-life foods and other necessary and comfort items should start right now.
I don’t even eat jams or jelly due to high sugar content, but it is a great joy watching you make it! I believe you are the most industrious person I have ever seen! I enjoy your spinning and weaving videos, thanks for sharing!😀
I miss my dad and mom so much. They had long lives but I miss them. Now that we are genealogists, there are so many things I wish I had asked them. Yes, their generation knew about having to make do. Bless them.
We bought a fully furnished house complete with contents two years ago and I found Jam from the 1990's in the barn. It had formed a sugar crust on top of some jars, about 1/4 inch deep. My wife wouldn't touch it but |I have been enjoying it ever since. Preservatives is an appropriate word!
How lovely. My 96 year old Aunt still makes her jam, chutney and marmalde every year. She has cupboards and cupboards of it hidden all over her house 😊
I am a preserver too and still have a good stock of jams jellies etc in the cellar😊My mom put up everything and I have the same genes🥰 I never made rhubarb ginger jam must try sometime but raspberry jam is my all time favourite . Love these videos Kate,better than tv.
My mom would make strawberry-rhubard jam. Might be a combination you could try, if you find yourself in a similar situation again. Thank you for your lovely videos. I started at the beginning and have enjoyed your stories. I am on the island of Newfoundland, Canada. I understand your weather challenges.
Diannetimpani hello to you in Newfoundland! So happy you have you on board! Next summer I’ll have strawberries and rhubarb myself, rather than using up my mums stored fruit. That sounds like the sort of thing my youngest son would like. Not the one who forgot the custard!!! Thanks so much for joining me! Xxx
Though you may know this, there is what my mom called a pineapple rhubarb that is yellowish near the base. That was the one she used in the jam. The other she called a strawberry rhubarb for the same colour reason. So glad I found your videos. Thanks for you replies.
I can’t imagine anybody not liking rhubarb but everyone to their own taste. I love rhubarb pie my mom used to make it we made strawberry jam with rhubarb I’m sure you could use the raspberries with that it is more tired but it is so good God bless you for your video and all your work that you do for your father. May the Lord bless him.
Isn't it funny how people who lived through the war tend to hoard everything? When my granny passed away, it fell to my dad, my uncle and I to clean out her house, and oh my goodness. I'm sure she kept just about every plastic bag that came into her possession. Your jam looks amazing :-)
Sara S So true. My grandmother had a cellar with a thousand jars... Nothing went to waste for those who sadly went through a war. Even butter plastic containers were used and re-used as tupperware... I remember being a kid and my older brother telling me as a joke "let's go and visit grandma; someone has to eat all those sardines from the 40's"... We always laughed about it.
This reminded of my grandmother she saved every glass jar and plastic tub that food came in. She had garbage cans full infact that's where the hidden key to the house was always kept. In her later years she had the habit of locking her self out of the house. And all the family all knew it was in there too incase they needed to get in. I have to laugh because I'm not as bad as she was but it's so hard for me to throw away a perfectly good glass jar...lol
Your nice little project just got bigger and bigger and I'm glad it is you and not me. I love raspberries. With rhubarb, Mom would cook it with strawberry jello (gelatin mix) and when it cooled down we would have it over vanilla ice cream. (And eat with salty potato chips too).
Raspberry jam is my favourite 😋 I grew up on raspberries, picked by my dad and served in a bowl with a bit of cream on top. My grandmother taught me how to make rhubarb Kuchen which is a German pie of sorts Splendid childhood memories 💚
HOWDY 💜🇺🇸👩🎤 WHAT A SPLENDID IDEA. THIS IS MORE THAN A ONE PERSON TASK. WHEN I WAS IN COLLEGE A GIRL FRIEND AND I DECIDED WE WOULD BUY FLATS OF STRAWBERRIES AND CANNING JARS. WE SET OUT TOGETHER TO ACHIEVE THIS TASK. BOY ... OH. BOY WERE WE EXHAUSTED AT THE END OF THE DAY. THEY WERE DELICIOUS BUT NEVER AGAIN. WHEN I WAS A KID WE HAD A APRICOT TREE IN THE FRONT YARD AND MY DEAR MOTHER WOULD CAN THEM EVERY YEAR. GOODNESS KATE I CAN JUST SEE YOU IN MY MINDS EYE.. THIS WILL CERTAINLY MAKE YOUR DEAR DAD VERY HAPPY WHEN YOU ARRIVE BACK AT HIS HOME AND START BRINGING IN THOSE PRECIOUS JARS OF TENDER LOVING CARE. JARS OF RED RUBY JEWELS AND EACH ONE INDIVIDUALLY SHOWING A FANTASTIC LABEL AND DECORATED WITH FABRIC AND RIBBON. NICELY DONE KATE Signing off Scott's wife Vickie
Hi Kate. I love your lifestyle. You are so beautiful and sweet to watch making anything and everything out of so many home grown items. I think the world needs to be just like you. your demeaned is so loving. Caring and so happy. I wished I had you close to me. It would be so lovely to spend a month with you to not have a card in the world. Oh I can go on and on. Love ya. Diana
Of course, there is always Raspberry Gin/Vodka to make!! Gorgeous colour too, especially if you get fed up making jam. Blackcurrants make the most delicious Cassis too - if you have a glut of course - all of these are just lovely liqueurs to give a presents, or to add to a glass of Prosecco on Christmas morning, or any celebration. I make lots of liqueurs like these; have you seen the price of these gins in the supermarket!!
I love rhubarb, it’s very hard to find the bulbs for and it’s expensive and woody in the supermarket. I must check the green grocers again. I haven’t made jam in quite a while, I must get stuck into it as I’ve plenty of jars and seals.
Yes I inherited that Depression Era mentality from my mom. I do love to make preserves though! The strawberries here are wonderful (from Plant City, FL). I didn't know to sterilize jars in the oven though!
Having a bunker full of food is a great idea. Food shortages are predicted partly because of all the nasty sprays that are killing off the bees. I say rotate what's there and keep it stocked.
👵💜🇺🇲- got a bunch of blackberries - put infreezer for further consideration- made a cobbler- yum- some rather pathetic blackberry honey butter- and am out of jam- so there you go- thinking of you all- xox kit
check out 'Posy Gets Cosy', Alicia Paulson's webpage, for her Rhubarb Custard pie!!! (she loves Liberty fabric too, and is a knitter and quilter--you two are kindred spirits)
I just found you here in 2024 in the USA. I would love your recipes for these jams.
You managed to get me to think fondly of both my maternal grandfather and my paternal grandmother at the same time. My grandparents are only a few years younger than your parents. My grandpa is a creature of habit and simple food choices. He will eat the same things everyday unless one of us goes over and makes him something else. My grandma was the gardener and she was always putting up bags of frozen fruit for future use. The list included raspberries, strawberries, rhubarb, pears, and peaches. She always stewed the rhubarb before freezing and often used it to make strawberry rhubarb cobbler, which I adored. I would happily eat a mixed berry jam or a strawberry rhubarb jam. My grandpa is my last remaining grandparent and time with him is precious.
I'm up there in age, still cook everything I eat. Few days ago I made apricot preserves, fruit from the farmer's market. My neighbors are mad with joy when I give them samples. I make small batches, though, like that better. Favorite snack today: homebaked whole-wheat bread, yogurt cheese spread on, apricot preserve on top.
Watching this in 2023 and I think your parents had the right idea about having a very well-stocked larder. It's how our ancestors survived and how people will survive in the near future as the powers-that-be systematically destroy food production and delivery (unless you're happy eating bugs, that is). We live on an island and our climate is not the best for year round food production. People ignore that at their peril. Supermarkets will empty within hours if, or more likely when, the excrement hits the fan. Anyone who hasn't been storing long shelf-life foods and other necessary and comfort items should start right now.
So nice you rescued all these beautiful bags of berries!!
I don’t even eat jams or jelly due to high sugar content, but it is a great joy watching you make it! I believe you are the most industrious person I have ever seen! I enjoy your spinning and weaving videos, thanks for sharing!😀
I miss my dad and mom so much. They had long lives but I miss them. Now that we are genealogists, there are so many things I wish I had asked them. Yes, their generation knew about having to make do. Bless them.
We bought a fully furnished house complete with contents two years ago and I found Jam from the 1990's in the barn. It had formed a sugar crust on top of some jars, about 1/4 inch deep. My wife wouldn't touch it but |I have been enjoying it ever since. Preservatives is an appropriate word!
❤️❤️❤️ all the goodies! My mother was a hoarder too! The Great Depression ruined that generation…
How lovely. My 96 year old Aunt still makes her jam, chutney and marmalde every year. She has cupboards and cupboards of it hidden all over her house 😊
Alison Collins ha ha!! It’s in all of us I guess!
Yes I like rubarb and ginger. Salivating about now and having a little chuckle too. Bless your folks. So special.🍒🍐🍓
My parents and grandparents were like that too - think it was from living through depression and the war. What a marvelous plan!
Yes, my Mom especially and of course my grandparents.
What a fantastic idea. A wonderful way to remember your mum and celebrate your dad’s skills😀
I am a preserver too and still have a good stock of jams jellies etc in the cellar😊My mom put up everything and I have the same genes🥰
I never made rhubarb ginger jam must try sometime but raspberry jam is my all time favourite .
Love these videos Kate,better than tv.
when i have too much rhubarb i always combine it with strawberries for jam. Excellent!
Yes, I kept yelling, " put the rhubarb and raspberries together".
I am a bit of a food hoarder myself! I'm sure your father will love the finished product!
Firefly Hollow I think he will, I think he will enjoy giving it to visiting grandchildren 😊
My mom would make strawberry-rhubard jam. Might be a combination you could try, if you find yourself in a similar situation again. Thank you for your lovely videos. I started at the beginning and have enjoyed your stories.
I am on the island of Newfoundland, Canada. I understand your weather challenges.
Diannetimpani hello to you in Newfoundland! So happy you have you on board! Next summer I’ll have strawberries and rhubarb myself, rather than using up my mums stored fruit. That sounds like the sort of thing my youngest son would like. Not the one who forgot the custard!!! Thanks so much for joining me! Xxx
Though you may know this, there is what my mom called a pineapple rhubarb that is yellowish near the base. That was the one she used in the jam. The other she called a strawberry rhubarb for the same colour reason. So glad I found your videos. Thanks for you replies.
I can’t imagine anybody not liking rhubarb but everyone to their own taste. I love rhubarb pie my mom used to make it we made strawberry jam with rhubarb I’m sure you could use the raspberries with that it is more tired but it is so good God bless you for your video and all your work that you do for your father. May the Lord bless him.
Isn't it funny how people who lived through the war tend to hoard everything? When my granny passed away, it fell to my dad, my uncle and I to clean out her house, and oh my goodness. I'm sure she kept just about every plastic bag that came into her possession. Your jam looks amazing :-)
Sara S yes, there are plastic bags, half a million! And yes, it’s a wartime thing. I was toning it down in this video! Ha ha ha!
Sara S
So true. My grandmother had a cellar with a thousand jars... Nothing went to waste for those who sadly went through a war.
Even butter plastic containers were used and re-used as tupperware...
I remember being a kid and my older brother telling me as a joke "let's go and visit grandma; someone has to eat all those sardines from the 40's"... We always laughed about it.
This was awsom Thank you
This reminded of my grandmother she saved every glass jar and plastic tub that food came in. She had garbage cans full infact that's where the hidden key to the house was always kept. In her later years she had the habit of locking her self out of the house. And all the family all knew it was in there too incase they needed to get in. I have to laugh because I'm not as bad as she was but it's so hard for me to throw away a perfectly good glass jar...lol
Your nice little project just got bigger and bigger and I'm glad it is you and not me. I love raspberries. With rhubarb, Mom would cook it with strawberry jello (gelatin mix) and when it cooled down we would have it over vanilla ice cream. (And eat with salty potato chips too).
My next door neighbor used to make raspberry and rhubarb jam. It was delish!!!
Raspberry jam is my favourite 😋
I grew up on raspberries, picked by my dad and served in a bowl with a bit of cream on top.
My grandmother taught me how to make rhubarb Kuchen which is a German pie of sorts
Splendid childhood memories 💚
Can't wait to see those finished jars. I hope you save a jar to put in the bunker.
Lynn Marie than bunker! Toilet rolls!!! 😳😂
If we all lived like you do, there would be so much less waste and pollution in the world!
So inspirational. I enjoy your videos!
Love rhubarb crumble plus custard and a dollop of whipped cream. You will have lots of delicious jam. Yum.
HOWDY
💜🇺🇸👩🎤
WHAT A SPLENDID IDEA. THIS IS MORE THAN A ONE PERSON TASK. WHEN I WAS IN COLLEGE A GIRL FRIEND AND I DECIDED WE WOULD BUY FLATS OF STRAWBERRIES AND CANNING JARS. WE SET OUT TOGETHER TO ACHIEVE THIS TASK. BOY ...
OH. BOY WERE WE EXHAUSTED AT THE END OF THE DAY. THEY WERE DELICIOUS BUT NEVER AGAIN. WHEN I WAS A KID WE HAD A APRICOT TREE IN THE FRONT YARD AND MY DEAR MOTHER WOULD CAN THEM EVERY YEAR.
GOODNESS KATE I CAN JUST SEE YOU IN MY MINDS EYE.. THIS WILL CERTAINLY MAKE YOUR DEAR DAD VERY HAPPY WHEN YOU ARRIVE BACK AT HIS HOME AND START BRINGING IN THOSE PRECIOUS JARS OF TENDER
LOVING CARE. JARS OF RED RUBY JEWELS AND EACH ONE INDIVIDUALLY SHOWING A FANTASTIC LABEL AND DECORATED WITH FABRIC AND RIBBON. NICELY DONE KATE
Signing off Scott's wife Vickie
Such a lovely idea.
Hi Kate. I love your lifestyle. You are so beautiful and sweet to watch making anything and everything out of so many home grown items. I think the world needs to be just like you. your demeaned is so loving. Caring and so happy. I wished I had you close to me. It would be so lovely to spend a month with you to not have a card in the world. Oh I can go on and on. Love ya. Diana
Of course, there is always Raspberry Gin/Vodka to make!! Gorgeous colour too, especially if you get fed up making jam. Blackcurrants make the most delicious Cassis too - if you have a glut of course - all of these are just lovely liqueurs to give a presents, or to add to a glass of Prosecco on Christmas morning, or any celebration. I make lots of liqueurs like these; have you seen the price of these gins in the supermarket!!
I love rhubarb, it’s very hard to find the bulbs for and it’s expensive and woody in the supermarket. I must check the green grocers again. I haven’t made jam in quite a while, I must get stuck into it as I’ve plenty of jars and seals.
WOW...I lo e making jam❤❤
I don’t care for raspberry jam, but I love rhubarb jam! 😁
Lovely to have that beautiful memories lost my mum two years next week miss her so much lost my dad 35 year ago very hard
Yes I inherited that Depression Era mentality from my mom. I do love to make preserves though! The strawberries here are wonderful (from Plant City, FL). I didn't know to sterilize jars in the oven though!
Having a bunker full of food is a great idea. Food shortages are predicted partly because of all the nasty sprays that are killing off the bees. I say rotate what's there and keep it stocked.
Wish I had some of that jam, I would make just rhubarb jam by itself
Love rhubarb and ginger jam unfortunately don’t have much success growing rhubarb. Raspberries, on the other hand, last from one year to next.
I was thinking strawberry rhubarb pie or jam
add some Jalepeño pepper next time--not too spicy but muy delicioso!
👵💜🇺🇲- got a bunch of blackberries - put infreezer for further consideration- made a cobbler- yum- some rather pathetic blackberry honey butter- and am out of jam- so there you go- thinking of you all- xox kit
Catching up on some older video's :)
have a freezer full of huckles and raspberries wild strawberries but don't have any domestic stuff in me trying!!
Hello Kate….Could you please direct me to which of your videos shows what goes into your green drink? Thanks so much. Bon
try rhubarb and apple pie ... yum
Kate. I'm sorry for the mispelled words. Demeaner and care not card have a wonderful day.
check out 'Posy Gets Cosy', Alicia Paulson's webpage, for her Rhubarb Custard pie!!! (she loves Liberty fabric too, and is a knitter and quilter--you two are kindred spirits)
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