Jammy goodness
Apr. 26th, 2024 08:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wiseheartBehold the jammies yummies:
Strawberry jam on the left, spicy apple jam on the right. Both absolutely delicious! And I figured out that I'm gonna make raspberry and blueberry jam out of frozen berries - they are a lot cheaper than fresh ones and one has to cook them for jam anyway, so...
But the real achievement of the day is that I've successfully applied for a new ID card. This new "government window", as they call it, is fantastic. I was in there for barely 30 minutes: 10 minutes waiting, then in another 20 minutes they took my photo and my fingerprints (all newly made ID cards have fingerprints nowadays), jotted down my phone number, explained me everything and wham! I was out of the door. I'll get a text message in about a week when the new card arrives to go and fetch it. Yay!
Still no cooking, so I used the time to pick up the long-overdue felt songbook again and started working on the book-binding. I hate that part; it's a killer on the fingers, sewing through so many layers of hard felt and double-sided tape. But I've sewn together the inner binding and pined on the individual pages, so that's progress. Tomorrow I'll go easy and seam the spine of the book with blanket stitch before attacking the really brutal part: the sewing in of the pages. But I'm on the way now, which is a relief.
Originally, this book ought to have been finished by Christmas as a gift for my friend Evie who has her birthday and her name-day on Christmas Eve (one does wonder what her parents were thinking when naming her), but there was so much else to do that I hadn't managed. I hadn't managed for Easter, either. But now I'm nurturing some tentative hope that it might be finished before the school term ends. *fingers crossed*
By way of social life I chatted with Evie and Elise on the phone, so today was a very good day indeed.
Strawberry jam on the left, spicy apple jam on the right. Both absolutely delicious! And I figured out that I'm gonna make raspberry and blueberry jam out of frozen berries - they are a lot cheaper than fresh ones and one has to cook them for jam anyway, so...
But the real achievement of the day is that I've successfully applied for a new ID card. This new "government window", as they call it, is fantastic. I was in there for barely 30 minutes: 10 minutes waiting, then in another 20 minutes they took my photo and my fingerprints (all newly made ID cards have fingerprints nowadays), jotted down my phone number, explained me everything and wham! I was out of the door. I'll get a text message in about a week when the new card arrives to go and fetch it. Yay!
Still no cooking, so I used the time to pick up the long-overdue felt songbook again and started working on the book-binding. I hate that part; it's a killer on the fingers, sewing through so many layers of hard felt and double-sided tape. But I've sewn together the inner binding and pined on the individual pages, so that's progress. Tomorrow I'll go easy and seam the spine of the book with blanket stitch before attacking the really brutal part: the sewing in of the pages. But I'm on the way now, which is a relief.
Originally, this book ought to have been finished by Christmas as a gift for my friend Evie who has her birthday and her name-day on Christmas Eve (one does wonder what her parents were thinking when naming her), but there was so much else to do that I hadn't managed. I hadn't managed for Easter, either. But now I'm nurturing some tentative hope that it might be finished before the school term ends. *fingers crossed*
By way of social life I chatted with Evie and Elise on the phone, so today was a very good day indeed.
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Date: 2024-04-27 01:38 pm (UTC)Hurrah, also, for a good stock of jam :) I made some strawberry and blackcurrant yesterday from the last of the frozen strawberries, and a handful of frozen blackcurrants to make up the weight — and it set perfectly, which made me think I should have thrown some blackcurrants into all the strawberry jam I made with those frozen berries that never got to better than a soft set!
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Date: 2024-04-27 05:03 pm (UTC)Forgot to ask: when you make jam of frozen berries, do you do it the same way you would with fresh ones? This will be the first time I'll try that, and I don't want to get the jam too watery.
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Date: 2024-04-27 05:23 pm (UTC)I don't completely thaw the strawberries — it is easier to just cut the green bit off neatly when still semi-frozen, and then weigh them to get the weight of sugar right and throw them and the sugar into the pan — to be honest I did it that way because they were much easier to handle when still only partially defrosted than when they defrost and go soft and mushy — but it worked just as well as the fresh ones have in the past.
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Date: 2024-04-27 02:40 pm (UTC)I love the notion of using frozen blueberries and raspberries for making jam. I am tempted to try that myself. Yum!
Ouch, my fingers are smarting, just thinking of how painful it is to sew through those layers. Good luck with it, and I hope it goes well!
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Date: 2024-04-27 05:50 pm (UTC)No fingerprints here, That´s why it takes less time to get it. But isn´t it strange that they send all those documents (passports, too) via mail?
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Date: 2024-04-27 06:29 pm (UTC)The fingerprints part is new; my previous ID didn't have it. I'm not sure I like it, but I can't change it.