{"id":156,"date":"2007-07-16T21:37:27","date_gmt":"2007-07-17T04:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/?p=156"},"modified":"2008-01-22T11:39:47","modified_gmt":"2008-01-22T18:39:47","slug":"more-blueberries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/2007\/07\/16\/more-blueberries\/","title":{"rendered":"More Blueberries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I made freezer jam out of my blueberries. It came out yummy! The pectin package, which has detailed instructions for making many kinds of jam, emphatically warned me that I shouldn&#8217;t mess with the fruit-to-sugar ratio or else my jam wouldn&#8217;t jell. But, seeing that they called for 4 cups of fruit, 7 cups of sugar, and a cup of corn syrup to prevent sugar crystals&#8230; I decided to mess with it anyway. I used 2 cups of sugar with my 4 cups of coarsely pureed blueberries, and my jam came out fine. It&#8217;s quite firm, too, it just has a lot of runny juice along with it. So it&#8217;s not so great for peanut butter sandwiches, though if you eat &#8217;em right away it&#8217;s OK. But excellent for other purposes such as a topping for pancakes or yogurt or ice cream or&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Even though my freezer was already laden with frozen whole blueberries, 3 jam jars and 4 yogurt cups full of jam, I decided to go blueberry picking again as I&#8217;d been invited by the K&#8217;s &#8211; GK and her daughters, M and A. Another friend, CO, came too. This time, the weather wasn&#8217;t nearly so hot, it was quite a cloudy day. The berry bushes were wilder, bushier, and more tangled. But, get this &#8211; the blueberries were twice as big as the ones I&#8217;d picked before, and those were big, too. Wow. I tried to restrain myself and not pick too many, because I&#8217;d run out of freezer space if I came back with another 6+ pounds of berries!<\/p>\n<p><img title=\"Team Blueberry\" alt=\"Team Blueberry\" src=\"http:\/\/sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/ImageUploads\/Berry1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Team Blueberry<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Berry Bush\" title=\"Berry Bush\" src=\"http:\/\/sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/ImageUploads\/Berry2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Gotta pick &#8217;em all!<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Victory!\" title=\"Victory!\" src=\"http:\/\/sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/ImageUploads\/Berry3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Victory!<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Bucket of Berries\" title=\"Bucket of Berries\" src=\"http:\/\/sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/ImageUploads\/Berry4.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Aren&#8217;t they Bluetiful?<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"They're Huge!\" title=\"They're Huge!\" src=\"http:\/\/sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/ImageUploads\/Berry5.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Left: normal-sized berry. Right: GI-NORMOUS berry. Told ya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made freezer jam out of my blueberries. It came out yummy! The pectin package, which has detailed instructions for <span class=\"more-text\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}