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Aug. 30th, 2020 10:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
luzula1) My teaching starts tomorrow. It is a course I have never taught before, with first-year students, and all online. Wish me luck...
2) I have picked a total of 7.5 liters of lingonberries, quite near my home! Truly it is a wonderful year for berries. I thought lingonberries naturally had a lot of pectin in them, so I did not use jam sugar for my first batch (= sugar with added pectin). But the first batch of jam ended up very loose and did not gel at all! I have ordered some pectin now and intend to re-boil the jam, because ten jars of lingonberries in juice is not what I wanted.
But now I made a second batch, also with no added pectin, and it has gelled up very nicely. It is a mystery...I did add more water the first time, but still. ETA: Upon reflection, it must be the water that made the difference--I actually followed a recipe the first time that said to add a few deciliters of water, and the second time I added almost nothing.
3) Look at this very beautiful pattern! It is the instructions for an 18th century ballroom dance.
2) I have picked a total of 7.5 liters of lingonberries, quite near my home! Truly it is a wonderful year for berries. I thought lingonberries naturally had a lot of pectin in them, so I did not use jam sugar for my first batch (= sugar with added pectin). But the first batch of jam ended up very loose and did not gel at all! I have ordered some pectin now and intend to re-boil the jam, because ten jars of lingonberries in juice is not what I wanted.
But now I made a second batch, also with no added pectin, and it has gelled up very nicely. It is a mystery...I did add more water the first time, but still. ETA: Upon reflection, it must be the water that made the difference--I actually followed a recipe the first time that said to add a few deciliters of water, and the second time I added almost nothing.
3) Look at this very beautiful pattern! It is the instructions for an 18th century ballroom dance.
