Sunday, September 26, 2010

9-26-10, Day 21

To Landlocked:
CORN RELISH/PEAR-GINGER PRESERVES






Canning.  Cross if off my life list (if I had one).  All the pleasures, the alchemy of cooking with the added benefit that it improves with age.  Behold the beauty of it, gleaming in the sun like precious jewels, as it sings to you of summer bounty through the long winter months.  I propose giving your beloved a jar of amber colored jam instead of an engagement ring.  My friend, Deborah, from Madison WI is a genius in the kitchen and under her tutelage I made corn relish and pear/ginger preserves.   The sterilizing, the hoo ha that I’ve scorned…I now bow to the effort for the pleasure of it and for the results.  


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