{"id":1528,"date":"2011-08-08T16:21:17","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T20:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=1528"},"modified":"2011-08-08T16:21:17","modified_gmt":"2011-08-08T20:21:17","slug":"those-berries-just-keep-coming-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2011\/08\/08\/those-berries-just-keep-coming-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Those berries just keep coming on!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been busy making jam and syrup lately. Our three-year-old raspberry and black raspberry bushes are doing great. Oh yeah, you’re not supposed to be able to grow black raspberries here in northern Minnesota. Ours are Bristol and are doing fine. Some years we do get a little winter die back, but usually they come through great. (I’ve had them for five years now, in less than ideal conditions, and no special care.) I’m pretty disgusted with the price of pectin this year; it’s jumped a lot since last year! Like a lot of other things. So I’m starting to boil down a lot of my jams instead of using pectin. I also ordered bulk pectin online, which is a lot cheaper than the little cute plastic containers that Ball has come out with. Or the really cute, cheap envelopes which make TWO, count ’em, TWO half pints! What will they think of next?<\/p>\n

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I put up a lot of jams, jellies, and preserves, along with syrups. No, we don’t eat that much toast and jam, but you can use it for lots of baking too. I top my cheesecakes with it, use it in cookies and bars, fill tarts with it, mix it with some pancakes (in the batter) for different flavored pancakes with fruit in them, and a bunch of other creative recipes. From past experience, I know that the harder times are, the more your family appreciates a few extra goodies! And times don’t look like they’re heading for the best future, do they?<\/p>\n

\u00a0I’m so thankful that we live here in the backwoods on our wonderful homestead! — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been busy making jam and syrup lately. Our three-year-old raspberry and black raspberry bushes are doing great. Oh yeah, you’re not supposed to be able to grow black raspberries here in northern Minnesota. Ours are Bristol and are doing fine. Some years we do get a little winter die back, but usually they come […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}