Austin Durant - I'm not able to do anything about your BB submission, but I have to ask -- is it loquat season in California, or are these older pictures? Our loquat season here in NZ is just drawing to a close, so I wouldn't have thought you all would be getting loquats for 4-6 months yet!
He whai take kore noa anō te kupu mēnā mā nga mahi a te tangata ia e kōrero / His words are nothing if his works say otherwise
The blackbirds have been sampling my plums and knocking them off the tree, so it was time to make some plum sauce. Not pictured:bucket of bird-pecked and partially rotting plums.
Recipe:
* 2 parts plums
* 1 part brown sugar
* pinch or two of baking soda (these were unripe, and the battery acid tartness needed to be cut down a bit! Still ended up plenty acidic)
Fill hot jars with boiling sauce. Put in bottling pan. Once it reaches a rolling boil, let boil for 10 minutes.
As proper bottling jars are $2+ each, I have re-used storebought jars. I save my proper bottling jars for my tomatoes and pickles. Anything that might get gifted goes in a re-used jar! The smallest jar is 300mL, so easily above 1L of finished product.
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Plums cut and put to the boil
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Jar filled with appropriate headspace, jars in waterbath, and finished labelled jars
He whai take kore noa anō te kupu mēnā mā nga mahi a te tangata ia e kōrero / His words are nothing if his works say otherwise