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Update on the dandilion jelly.
It had to be gently reheated and lots of pectin added to make it set.
Work out how much pectin you think you might need and use double that, would be my rough estimate.

Tastes sweet, a little lemony and as you'd expect, of crushed dandelions.

It's a very hot pan!
Need a long jamming spoon to keep stirring hand at a distance because of the size, 16" Swan Brand, aluminium.

Also try:
France 24,
Arirang

A half carrier bag of head/petals makes 11 cups of (quite dark looking) juice. So we multiplied the online recipe by about 3.
2 bags of sugar (10 cups)
6 tablespoons of lemon
A bottle of the only pectin I could find

Roll boiled for about 10 mins, it seems nicely scented

When ladled out it filled 11 standard bottles of jam

Fingers crossed it sets nicely

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It's very different from picking and chopping quince for jam. Can be done by one but nice to have help.

1. concentrated dandelion pollen gives me mild hayfever/asthma
2. it becomes ever more difficult to strip the petals as the heads dry and close; pick the largest heads and pluck their petals on the same day. Pinching & rolling the green partbetween finger and thumb opens & loosens the flower...
3. a green lawn at the end of the day will be yellow again next morning

Now I need to buy pectin.

MrsAndy has a large locked travelling chest which, since I met her in 1989, has followed us from garage to shed to garage.
Unopened until yesterday... let's say I was more than a little curious to see her past:

Oh well, vintage clothes from the 70's and romance novels.
Then, and note she was studying for Grade 8 piano in 1977, these were produced from the depths

Grand surprise

Anyone made dandilion tea or jam yet?
Advice to give?
Two hours of picking heads resulted in (backache and) a couple of carrier bags each a quarter full

I would add it was another lawyer who bequeathed the above shared ownership mess.
In hindsight it would have been better to sell and give the proceeds. The three sisters would have been initially displaced but would have had cash to buy.

When properties are bequeathed to a number of people but someone is living there... problems.

A house bequeathed in the mid 1970's to 4... one cousin living two doors down the road with his family(50% ownership) wanted to sell, the other three owners living in the house (close unmarried sisters sharing the other 50%) were pestered by him to sell up for nearly four decades but they refused; and chose to live there until they died, all octogarians. Good for them, it was their home. He had a lovely house and put his 3 children through the most expensive private schooling, so why be so nasty?
Money. Want it all, want it now, feel entitled.

You're right about wishes Daniel. Even written on a note. An aunt of mine left five dated & signed notes which her executors tried to fulfill as best as possible along with her watertight solicitor-witnessed and executed LWT.

If you want it done then it has to be written, witnessed and signed as your law requires.

We visited Birkheads Gardens today, the trees in fresh spring leaf. And spotted a hare in an adjacent field.

I'm the same with Cavatina, which on the film Deerhunter is slooooow.
(I try to imagine Cleo Lane singing it slowly)

Yup, minefield; knowing and loving my two sisters, I immediately sold them my third of our parents house; and, given they had cared for mum 24/7/365 for the last two years of her life so she could live in her home to her last day, offered them first and second choices of any furniture, crockery etc.

Over seven years later and we have still not sat down to divide mum & dad's jewellery...I'm guessing it's something to do with finality. I'd write a letter of complaint to the Executors, but they are...
My sisters

Younger sister moved back in, wanting to modernise and extend, while older sister wanted to preserve it almost as a museum. Work starts this summer. Probably.

Took six years for my sisters, bless'em, to decide on and erect a celtic cross gravestone.
By then we'd had two of my wooden crosses roughly carved with
'Mum & Dad'
Yet, a year later Mum's ashes-urn are still in the front bedroom. WTF?

I've half a mind to ask that my ashes are spread surreptitiously on the top of Mt Fuji 🤭

You'd think Wills were simple to write; it seems not. My wife's parents, and her elder sister, all barristers, all three died leaving a ****ing mess.

Ours are consequently very simple, daughters get half each. It's all been discussed, and letters of wishes for executors written detailing accounts and items of value.

I hope things get better for you Daniel.

Beautiful, tearfully beautiful. 'Wishing' sorrowfully was how I felt it.
(Maybe a teenytiny bit slower and maybe some slightly quieter/rubato bits and you will have me in tears!)

Lovely playing ShiroKuro

(Is that hand real? Doesn't match his head)