Yesterday my assistant principal, Ancsa, handed me a big bag of cherries after school that she had brought from her trees at home. I knew I wouldn't be able to eat them all before they went bad, so I decided to try to make jam.
The cherries were so soft and ripe that pitting them was just a matter of squeezing them.
After they were pitted, I cooked them with sugar, lemon juice and a bit of lemon zest.
My bag of cherries yielded two full jars and one small jar of jam. I gave one jar to Ancsa the next day and the other to my contact teacher Margo.
I kept the little jar for myself. Hooray for my first successful jam!
