{"id":49,"date":"2010-06-07T19:14:27","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T23:14:27","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-02-01T23:52:25","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T04:52:25","slug":"cherry-jam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=49","title":{"rendered":"Cherry Jam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One of the better parts of having old DIY-ful hippie types for parents is getting do nifty things that people just don&#8217;t do anymore.  One of the better examples is the yearly ritual of making jam from the <a class=\"externlink\" title=\"Go to http:\/\/www.johnsonsnursery.com\/site\/Viewer.aspx?iid=3727&#038;mname=Article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.johnsonsnursery.com\/site\/Viewer.aspx?iid=3727&#038;mname=Article\">North Star Cherry<\/a> tree in my parent&#8217;s front yard.  The tree was productive this year (and not so much last year) so we ended up making somewhere around four gallons of the stuff over two days last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Onward, to Jam Making pictures:<br \/>\nPitting cherries, which is hand-staining and labor intensive:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/wp-content\/fp-content\/images\/pitting_sm.jpg\" alt=\"pitting_sm.jpg\"  title=\"pitting_sm.jpg\"  class=\"center\"  width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><br \/>\nTo make double-batch sized vats of cherries:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/wp-content\/fp-content\/images\/cherry_sm.jpg\" alt=\"cherry_sm.jpg\"  title=\"cherry_sm.jpg\"  class=\"center\"  width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><br \/>\nWhich get cooked down, sweetened, and thickened to make jam:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/wp-content\/fp-content\/images\/jam_sm.jpg\" alt=\"jam_sm.jpg\"  title=\"jam_sm.jpg\"  class=\"center\"  width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><br \/>\nWhich is then put into bottles:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/wp-content\/fp-content\/images\/jambottle_sm.jpg\" alt=\"jambottle_sm.jpg\"  title=\"jambottle_sm.jpg\"  class=\"center\"  width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p>Way better than the store bought stuff, and fun (if hot, tiring, and messy) to boot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the better parts of having old DIY-ful hippie types for parents is getting do nifty things that people just don&#8217;t do anymore. One of the better examples is the yearly ritual of making jam from the North Star &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=49\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diy","category-foodblogging","category-oldblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}