# Today is a tragic day for me **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 22, 2015, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-a-tragic-day-for-me/715718 "2015-03-22T22:00:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2015, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-a-tragic-day-for-me/715718/21 "2015-03-23T19:31:03Z")
> [@August\_West](#): > > I’m down to 2 jars myself, and am on strict rationing, but there’s no way they are going to last until the next batch is ready, in fact they’ll probably be gone before I get the seeds in the ground. > > Every year I make V-12 juice (homemade V-8, but with more stuff) and it is just my favorite thing. I made 24 quarts of vegetable juice last fall, thinking it would hold us over until spring. Turns out my 4-year-old boy loves the stuff and it was gone by January. Very sad. We strictly ration ourselves to one quart of peaches a week, because a week without peaches is life without meaning. ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2015, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-a-tragic-day-for-me/715718/22 "2015-03-23T20:40:29Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Very sad. We strictly ration ourselves to one quart of peaches a week, because a week without peaches is life without meaning. You and my grandmother would get on well. I remember calling her last year and she told me she’d just finished canning 52 quarts of peaches - “A quart per week!” She’s still a canning machine at the age of 84. Last November she gave me 2 bushels of Cortland apples, she knew my apple trees were nearly fruitless last year and she wanted me to be able to make applesauce for the kids. 2 bushels of apples make a _lot_ of applesauce! ---
**Author:** ![InsomniaMama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ad7895/32.png) [@InsomniaMama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InsomniaMama)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2015, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-a-tragic-day-for-me/715718/23 "2015-03-23T22:31:57Z")
Homemade applesauce is the bomb. No comparison. Now I want some. All out over here. ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2015, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-a-tragic-day-for-me/715718/24 "2015-03-24T13:33:46Z")
I should start a thread on “stuff your grandma taught you”, because I had no idea that Cortland apples make the best applesauce, I just used whatever was growing on my trees. My grandma has learned a few things in her time and I’m trying to learn as much as I can, while I still can. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2015, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-a-tragic-day-for-me/715718/25 "2015-03-24T14:25:56Z")
> [@InsomniaMama](#): > > Homemade applesauce is the bomb. No comparison. Now I want some. All out over here. We make pear sauce out of the Asian pears on our tree. Beats applesauce hands down. ---
**Author:** ![Why\_Child](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b782af/32.png) [@Why\_Child](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Why_Child)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2015, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-a-tragic-day-for-me/715718/26 "2015-03-26T00:23:46Z")
> [@Moonlitherial](#): > > \ > On the other hand does anyone want strawberry jam? Strawberry lime (amazing but so much of it) or strawberry banana (I was suspicious but this is delicious although too sweet) or strawberry rhubarb or just plain strawberry? > \ Yes, yes and yes!! Have asked my friends and co-workers if they have ever heard of strawberry-banana jam, and 3 people have asked me to get the recipe!! (I am not a canner of jams, (or anything, truth to tell,) but I actually would pay the shipping on a jar of the strawberry banana, if you were serious! 😃🆒) ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2015, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-a-tragic-day-for-me/715718/27 "2015-03-26T01:22:23Z")
> [@Moonlitherial](#): > > On the other hand does anyone want strawberry jam? Strawberry lime (amazing but so much of it) or strawberry banana (I was suspicious but this is delicious although too sweet) or strawberry rhubarb or just plain strawberry? You anywhere near Chicago? I’ll make any reasonable drive 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Moonlitherial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2015, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-a-tragic-day-for-me/715718/28 "2015-03-26T14:08:05Z")
> [@Why\_Child](#): > > Yes, yes and yes!! > > Have asked my friends and co-workers if they have ever heard of strawberry-banana jam, and 3 people have asked me to get the recipe!! (I am not a canner of jams, (or anything, truth to tell,) but I actually would pay the shipping on a jar of the strawberry banana, if you were serious! 😃🆒) > [@zoid](#): > > You anywhere near Chicago? I’ll make any reasonable drive 😉 Sorry, that was a little hyperbole. I do have enough to last another year or so but it’s good for at least that long. As an apology I give you the very easy recipe that we used for the [Strawberry Banana.](http://www.kraftrecipes.com/recipes/certo-strawberry-banana-jam-56102.aspx) We added 2x the banana requested but based on the taste it would be good with the recipe amounts as well. ---
**Author:** ![Iggins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Iggins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggins)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2015, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-a-tragic-day-for-me/715718/29 "2015-03-26T21:17:18Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Today I ate the last of the home-canned dill pickles. I dumped the remaining debris through a strainer so I could pick out the last morsels of deliciousness and add them to my spicy salami sandwich, and then. . .they were gone. :😭: No more until late summer, and no more _really_ good ones for 6 months to a year after they’re canned. Worse yet, the sweet pickles disappeared a few months ago. > > Where did we go wrong? Why did we make so few? How can I continue living? ☹ Since you are in Portland, you can tide yourself over with a very local pickle shop - they have a booth at the Downtown Farmer’s Market. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-a-tragic-day-for-me/715718.md?page=1)