Plum Good Summer!

Well readers, if you have been keeping up with me on Facebook you are aware of the bumper crop of plums I’ve had this year.  I have harvested 138 pounds of fresh, juicy, sweet delicious plums from just one tree.  It’s been about four years since we have had a good crop of plums and in all the years I’ve had the tree we have never had a crop this good.  One of the first things I wanted to plant when we moved to the country was a plum tree.  When I was a little girl, my grandmother had a plum tree right outside her back porch door.  Every year she would make the best plum jelly you ever ate.  I wanted to be just like her in many ways and so I planted the plum tree with the intentions of making jelly for my family just like she had made for hers.

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My freezer is now stocked with 7 gallons of juice ready to be made into jelly.  It takes four cups of juice to make a batch so my dad and I figured that there is enough to make at least 56 pints of jelly.  Needless to say, everyone in the family, everyone that’s a friend of the family and maybe even a few strangers will be getting a jar of jelly from the Davis kitchen this fall. 

My niece and I were joking around the other day about how I could greet people with a jar of jelly.  A jelly for any occasion if you will.

“Merry Christmas, have some jelly"

“Congratulations on the job promotion, have some jelly”

“Past your exam, have some jelly”

“Having a bad hair day, have some jelly”

“Happy Anniversary, have some jelly”

“Sink clogged, have some jelly”

Well, you get the picture.  I could start an ‘any occasion jelly’ business.  Celebratory Jelly, Sympathy Jelly, New Baby Jelly, Bon Voyage Jelly.  Jelly for all your special needs.

I will begin the jelly making process as soon as my new Ball Jam and Jelly making machine arrives in the mail.  Just ordered one today thanks to a link sent to me by my sister in law who is also expecting her supply of jelly in the near future.  As soon as the machine arrives and I make a trip to Sam's for 100 pounds of sugar, those jelly jars will start rolling off the assembly line real soon.  Stay tuned for pictures and recipes!