When I made jam with Mary, she showed me how to skim the purple foam that formed on the surface of the boiling fruit. “It’s fine to eat,” she said, “it’s just that it’ll form sugar crystals in the jam.”
She put it in a little jar and sent it home with me, and I spread it on toast for breakfast this morning.
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