tweaking recipes
April 8th, 2010 — 11:50pm
All the grapes were overdue for picking.
I was swimming in kilner jars,
not having a clue what
to do with seventy
pounds of fruit.
Jams were
not
setting.
The internet
advised using apples
to increase the pectin,
but the apples weren’t quite
ripe. So, you climbed the tree
and started to thwack the apples down
with a stick. I couldn’t stop laughing
as the apples rained down upon
my head. The apples were
bruised and tart, but
in the end,
the jam
set.