A Learning Experience

Like I mentioned earlier, after spending all afternoon in the kitchen making some delicious jelly and syrup, my mother and I learned a few things. For instance, when the juice boils over don't lift the pan off of the burner. The following is a result of what could happen. This is what we scraped off of the burner. We also learned that burning choke cherry juice smells very bad and causes a plethora of smoke.

We also leaned that when something sticky runs over the stove and down the oven that is can actually get inbetween the glass by going through the vent. My mother's stove still has pink streaks from the juice that we can't get to until we take the oven apart...which we have yet to do.

Sad thing is that we actually did the same thing twice! The second time we were slightly more prepared, but it still made a much bigger mess. We were just able to keep it off of the burner a little better.

This is what my hands looked like after I got done squeezing all of the juice out of the chokecherries. They were purple for a couple of days and they burned too. I think that the cheese cloth hurt my hands or something. So from now on we decided that we will stay out of the kitchen and stick to sewing. (And one more thing, buying your own jelly and syrup is much cheaper too! Even though our berries were free.)