Sudokuaholics Anonymous 3

But before I go, I think it's time . . .

To quote others, "Woo-hoo!"

Becky, Fig jam has a lovely flavour. All jams are sweet because of the large amount of sugar. (equal quanties of fruit and sugar!)
I have just made four jars of plum jam tonight. ( I think what we call jam you call "Jelly" )
Hi to you all. Sorry I have not looked in for a couple of days.

June, do you put almonds in your fig Jam?

Maen Sudoluland! coffee is on. Tea and choccie upon request. Join me in a cup YS:1373_ys_19.jpg]

that should be a cup, not all those letters.

GAIL, I am like Julie, how can you read one chapter of any good book and put it down? I get sucked in, and want to see what is around the next corner, over the next hill! Keep on reading and reading and reading. hubby hates for me to get into a new book. he knows he would not be seeing much of me till it is finished.

Well, that was the case all my life, till arthritis in my hands, now I cannot hold the book long, and must sit at table or desk to read. Now, it is how long can my backside endure that chair till I must get up and move.

Is it a CP if it takes you an hour and a half to post all 5?

BRENDA, Horray for the new job for hubby, Hope this will be a good change for both of you! Glad you made it back, we been missing you.

Stella, I also mailed the late card, hope Bryana gets it when she gets back to school.

OK, another couple of MIA's. has anyone seen dvD? and Ruby? think it has been a long time since a message for both of them! Should we send out search parties?

BECKY oven is all clean now, I spent a day Monday on the cleaning, work/rest, but it is clean. Now, with all the fire and smoke in oven, the smoke alarm did not go off! but since I have cleaned it, EVERY TIME I open the oven door, off goes that alarm. I was doing so much cooking other day ( cookies for hubby, cornbread, warming the turkey breast from aforesaid turkey) I got tired of the noise, and having to go fan the air with a towel. I got out the lectric fan and pointed it up onto th e alarm. did i say all this before? beginning to sound familiar hehe.

Make that 2 hours to post a CP! I gave you all ample opportunity, it is not my fault!

On Jams and jellies. . . .

Here in the USA, both are made from fruit and sugar, but there is a difference in consistancy and look of them. some fruits are only traditionally made into jelly, apple is one, never seen a apple jam.


My information on cooking is for home canning of the products.

Grapes are made into both Jelly and Jam. In the making, the boiled fruit for jelly is strained through a jelly bag, only the juice is used. the resulting product is clear and has a sparkle, and translucent. Jelly is judged by it's clarity, no fruit pulp is wanted, would make it "cloudy" . It has a tougher consistancy, does not spread as well as jam,

Jam is fruit and juice both used. the hot mixture is put through a press of some type, and very small pieces of fruit pulp is with the juice. The color is beautiful, deep rich and opaque. The consistancy is much easier to spread, bread and toast are not torn in spreading it.

Then there are preserves. large pieces of fruit and sugar are cooked to a certain temperature, There are large pieces of fruit identifiable in the product.

My father made fig preserves. whole figs, and if not too ripe, they remailed whole figs in a sweet thick fig flavored syrup, yummy on biscuits. he also made water mellon rind preserves, ( sweet) with whole pieces of the sliced rind in a syrup. Pear, apricot, pineapple and strawberry perserves more like a thick jam with smaller pieces of fruit.

when I home cook Jams, I use a gricer, a cone shaped metal container, point down, with a wooden "pusher" that forces the bits of fruit through small holes. When I make jelly, a jelly bag is inserted into the gricer and no pusher is allowed, let it drip and drip and drip. of course, it takes more fruit to make jelly than to make jam or preserves.

I love plum preserves, big pieces of fruit, espically when made from the dark dark, I think damsom plums. I made with a reduced sugar recipe and it is more like a condiment for meats, espically pork, chicken and turkey. My daughter and niece call it Plum Good Preserves and ask me to make more.

Learned all about making Jams first year we were here in the country! Had some basics from helping my Mom, but had to learn all the recipes. I got a book . . . Reason for the making of jams and preserves, there were fruit trees on the property. and that spring, there was an abundance of EVERYTHING. O " put up" over 100 pints of jelly, jam and preserves and froze a lot of juice for use the next year even! Guess what every one got for christmas that year??

Hi MizT I think you have mistaken me for Becky who's husband has a new job. My husband has his own company and if he has a new job hasn't told me about it I posted yesterday about my daughter starting a new placement, she is in the final few months of her Post Graduate Certificate of Education.

Brenda, yes, that was BECKY I meant to say, OOOPS! thanks for the heads up on that.

Congrats to your daughter also, and was sad to hear of her accident on first day of new assignment.

Also thank you for putting a stop to the TRICIA SHOW, beginning to think I was all alone and just talking to myself.

It has been a little quiet in here today. Stella is away enjoying herself skiing and I suppose the Australians are in bed.

We don't seem to get on here at the same time. Seems to be approx 30 minutes between our posts

Congrats to your daughter Brenda! Are teachers trained in schools in the UK? I am doing my DipEd and will have spent only 8 weeks in a classroom when I finish. When I start teaching I will have a different classification to teachers with experience.

Elaine is doing a Post Graduate Certificate of Education. She has an Honours Degree in Forensic science. She took a job for 1 months efore deciding to go back to University to become a teacher.
On this course she has already spent 9 weeks in one school(11-16yr olds) as well as being in University (Started in September). Last week she spent 4 days in a primary school observing lessons. Yesterday she started at another school (13-18yr olds) where she will be for 4 days a week until the end of June. When she will have finished her course and qualified to teach 11-16 yr old kids. She is teaching science a subject which is in great demand over here.

I'm not sure how much teaching time a student doing a Bachelor of Education degree have to do a 4 year course. I'm not sure how much of that time is spent in school teaching.

all.
Just a quick pop in before D#3 and I go last minute shopping before school starts tomorrow. YAY! Party time!
Re the book, I read another three chapters this morning, it was sort of a figure of speach, that 1 chapter before bed thingy. Before I started working full-time, I could always be found sitting on the bench on the front porch with a book in hand, reading as the world slowly shuffled past. Since 'retiring', I haven't really got back into the reading thing as much. I think I discovered that there is a world out there, so more often than not, I'm out experiencing things for real instead of reading about them!

Which is exactly how life should be lived Gail.

Hello ladies...I finally found my way back to these wonderful pages after being away for so long. For those of you that I have missed oneasy...a special hello, for the others....why didn't you grab me back here sooner....you all have been missed. Sully will be going back to work ( YEAAAAAA!!!) in a few more days so I should be able to find more time to drop in again!

Ok than Gail, when are you going to come fly with me, to add to that list of experiences? Wee just got two new planes for you to try out

Hi everyone.
Still no computers since the lightening strike at home.

vdV, know about lightening getting into computers, It happened here last summer and got bits and pieces of 4 different machines here! costly to repair/replace so much stuff. Lucky for us, our homeowners insurance did have a lightening damage coverage to pay for most of it. he was able to cobble together one compolete computer, printer from the bits not damaged, till all could be repaired. I am so lucky to have my on live in computer tech

I'm the live in tech at my place MizT, and yes our isurance covers the damage, but thay are slow to come up with the money, will need to ring them again.

Welcome back, vdV! We've missed you! Sorry to hear about the lightning finding your computers!

Hi and Welcome Back, Mamacita! You've been missed. Love your avatar of Angelique! Congrats to Sully for being almost ready to return to work!

Hi, MizT, Brenda & Gail! I don't mean to overlook you! Hope all is well! Brenda, so good to hear that your daughter wasn't hurt in her accident/tire blow-out! I hope she enjoys her new student-teaching position!

Oops! I missed June up above. Your jams sound lovely! I think MizT did a good job of explaining our (US) differences between jelly, jam and preserves. My Mom used to make grape and blackberry jelly. How I miss that home-made taste!

Hello to Julie, Mama, Gail, MizT, Suzy, June, MizT, vdV .. all on page 242
just back from Grocery Shopping.. always exciting SIGH!!
Congrats to Becky's Hubby on his new job..
Congrats to Brenda's Daughter on her new placement
Hi Cous !! long time no see..

OOPs said hello to MizT twice.. hehe..

Woo Hoo kids back to school tomorrow..

, ahh ... mine arent at school anymore !!

Another month before they are at Uni..

Hi peoples! Looks like lots of news from everyone. I had two whole pages to read.

Did everybody run away?

Hi Rena
just roaming around the site Rena.. but do need to go and put the rest of the shopping away and have some lunch..

What's for lunch today, Rolanda?

cheese and vegemite roll, Rena..

Enjoy your lunch. I'll be around for a while if you have time to chat a little later.

Hi, Rena and Rolanda! How's everything?

Hi Julie, how have you been?

Hi, Becky! We've been so busy here lately! We keep asking ourselves how we'd get everything done if we weren't retired. I think we'd be getting a lot less sleep (or at least I'd be getting a lot less).