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Passing It Down

10/10/2014

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For the past two years, George has had our two oldest daughters in "cooking school."

We homeschool and do a lot of cooking so this was a fairly easy task. Our four youngest children can cook eggs or make grilled cheeses, but the 15 and 16 year olds have been in more intensive training; we sometimes call it Culinary Boot Camp.

They have learned much that I will eventually post about, but perhaps the coolest thing they've learned was taught to them by their grandmother - how to make and can jams, jellies and preserves.

Over the course of the growing season, we picked blueberries, figs, plums, pears, and mayhaws. With each harvest, a class would follow. They would take their trusty recipe notebooks and walk over to their grandmother's house. There they would spend the day learning, start-to-finish, how to preserve the harvest.

I know they will cherish these times spent with their grandmother for a lifetime. I love that they are learning an important skill that will follow them for a lifetime and will hopefully be handed down to the next generation.   --Melissa

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The book we use for most of our recipes.

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Bea Kunz link
3/19/2017 06:15:09 pm

OMGosh...I have had such fun reading this blog...I hope y'all are having as much fun as it reads like!! Love it!!

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