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| Homemade Blueberry Jam |
When I was a kid, books were sacred. You were not to write
in them, tear out pages or harm them in any way. So the first time I
wrote a note to myself in the margin of a cookbook, I felt guilty. But I
felt I had a good reason. I had made this particular recipe before but
had forgotten that I didn’t like it. So when I absentmindedly made it
again and still didn’t like it, I vowed to remind myself so as to not make it a
third time.
Soon enough I was writing notes on almost all the cookbook recipes
I used. I would tell myself that I left out a certain ingredient or I
added a few new ingredients or I found a shortcut. Over the years this
habit has proved very useful.
Making blueberry jam is a perfect example.
