Raw Cherry Jam

I had made raw cherry jam the other day.

Easy!

Wash your cherries. (we had just picked ours of the trees and had spiders and dust, etc. to deal with) YOu see here I had Bings and Raniers. Use whichever you like.

Set them out on towls to drain.

Pit them. YOu know, te kids and I (mostly I) did about 130# of individual cherry pitting. Oh my back! I love my little cherry pitter though. It screws on a jar to catch all the messy pits.

Here's where the pictures stop- I didn't take any more, sorry.

After you pit your cherries, as many as you want for raw jam, mash them up. I used my VitaMix blender. You can really make it smooth, or leave it chunky like I did. Drizzle in honey to taste, with a squeeze of fresh lemon and a tiny pinch of salt. You can use this fresh now, or keep it for a couple weeks in the fridge. The honey is a natural preservative. I also made a bit to freeze so I can thaw some out and use it whenver I'm in a hurry and don't want to make it fresh again.

After you pit those nice cherries, freeze them and you can thaw them out and make fresh raw jam whenver you want.

Cherry Picking & Bummer Lamb

We got a Black Belly bummer lamb today from a friend. This little boy got away from his mamma and thru a fence. He was gone so long she forgot him and wouldn't accept him back. Bummer! He didn't like the replacer formula at all, so my friend Dave offered him to me. I brought him home and immediately milked Glory into a bottl and mixed fresh warm goat milk with some colostrum I had saved for just such an occassion and he promptly gobbled it down once he got a good taste. He loved the goat milk!

Ben helped me feed him his bottle. He's already asking me not to butcher this sheep when he's older, but...he's a boy, and we don't need any more "pets"!

Here's Ben and J. loading cherries. We picked bings and raniers early this morning at a U-pick farm and brought home about 120 lbs. Yum! We were allowed to eat while we picked, and everybody had their share, but Ben and I both came home with belly aches. We ate a little more than our share *U*

Lovely!

We weill wash, pit, and freeze most. Eat alot raw, and of course make some goodies like muffins, cobblers, etc. but also make some into raw jam, fruit leather, and dehydrate a bit too.

The kids worked hard!

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