{"id":5851,"date":"2023-08-13T01:17:17","date_gmt":"2023-08-13T01:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.malak.ca\/blog\/?p=5851"},"modified":"2023-08-13T02:27:39","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T02:27:39","slug":"making-stewed-rhubarb-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malak.ca\/blog\/index.php\/2023\/08\/13\/making-stewed-rhubarb-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Stewed Rhubarb — Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I picked up making stewed rhubarb<\/a> because my mom always liked using the rhubarb grown in her garden to make stewed rhubarb<\/a> and rhubarb chutney<\/a>. (Ironically, for this post, and often enough, I use rhubarb purchased from the grocery store!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Note that this recipe effectively needs to be done over two days, or at least with a pause of several hours (roughly equivalent to a minimum of “overnight” ) between preparing the rhubarb, and beginning to stew the rhurbarb.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Note that I also am using the “packing in mason jars and heat-processing” method to preserve the stewed rhubarb, and to allow for the making of larger amounts of stewed rhubarb at once; once the heat-processed jars have cooled, the stewed rhubarb is ready to eat.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Making the Stewed Rhubarb:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Day one:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

After buying some rhubarb at the grocery store, some mise-en-place was done by taking out a cutting board, a mixing bowl, a measuring cup, a kitchen knife, and a kitchen scale:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Cutting board, mixing bowl, measuring cup, kitchen knife, and kitchen scale taken out<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

To avoid confusion a bit later on, the tare weight of the mixing bowl was measured and noted (instead of using the tare function on the kitchen scale):<\/p>\n\n\n

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Tare weight of bowl measured<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The rhubarb purchased earlier was taken out (yes, it is a bit shabby!)<\/p>\n\n\n

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Rhubarb taken out<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The elastics and labels were removed from the rhubarb bunches:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Elastics and labels removed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

I began to wash and rinse the rhubarb:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Washing and rinsing rhubarb<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Washing and rinsing rhubarb<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The rinsed rhubarb stalks were brought to the cutting board:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Rhubarb brought to cutting board<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The rhubarb stalks were trimmed:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Trimming rhubarb stalks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Trimming rhubarb stalks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The trimmings were placed in a kitchen waste bucket for later disposal in a municipal composting programme:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Trimmings placed in bucket for composting<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

If the rhubarb isn’t completely fresh, or especially typical (in my experience) for commercial rhubarb purchased at the grocery store, sometimes there is some minor damage to the stalks to be removed:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Stalk damage to be removed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The stalk damage was removed (and while my name can be found on my — this — website in several places, I have blacked it out from my knife, on which I had inscribed my name years ago):<\/p>\n\n\n

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Stalk damage removed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The trimmed rhubarb stalks were piled up …<\/p>\n\n\n

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Trimmed rhubarb<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

… and the rhubarb stalks were rinsed again to remove the last of the bits:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Rhubarb rinsed again<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Some stalks were laid on the cutting board for chopping:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Rhubarb laid out for chopping<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The rhubarb stalks were chopped using a slicing motion against the grain:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Rhubarb chopped<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

As chopped rhubarb started piling up on the chopping board, it was transferred to the mixing bowl:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Chopped rhubarb transferred to mixing bowl<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The rest of the rhubarb was chopped, and transferred to the mixing bowl as it was produced:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Chopped rhubarb transferred to mixing bowl<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The bowl of chopped rhubarb was placed on the kitchen scale and weighed:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Chopped rhubarb weighed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The weight was noted, to be used in a moment:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Chopped rhubarb weighed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

A large pot and wooden mixing spoon were taken out:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Pot and wooden spoon taken out<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The chopped rhubarb was transferred to the pot:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Chopped rhubarb transferred to pot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Chopped rhubarb transferred to pot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

A calculator app was started, and the net weight of chopped rhubarb was calculated by subtracting the bowl tare weight from the weight of the bowl filled with the chopped rhubarb:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Net weight of chopped rhubarb calculated<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Since my recipe is based on the Imperial system, the weight of 0.895kg (above) was converted to pounds, giving a result just barely shy of two pounds of chopped rhubarb:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Rhubarb weight converted to pounds<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Next, a multiplication factor for how many “recipe units” was calculated by dividing the weight of the chopped rhubarb by the base amount of three quarters of a pound:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Multiplication factor calculated<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The multiplication factor was multiplied by the required amount of sugar and lemon juice for per “recipe unit” of 3\/4 lb of chopped rhubarb: Half a cup of sugar, and half an ounce of lemon juice, resulting in 1-1\/3 cups of sugar, and 1-1\/3 ounces of lemon juice:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Multiplication factor applied to sugar and lemon juice required<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Sugar and a measuring cup were taken out:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Sugar and measuring cup taken out<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Measures on measuring cup<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Sugar was measured out:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Sugar measured out<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The sugar was poured onto the chopped rhubarb:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Sugar poured into pot of chopped rhubarb<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Sugar poured into pot of chopped rhubarb<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The chopped rhubarb and sugar were mixed with the wooden spoon:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Chopped rhubarb and sugar mixed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Lemon juice was measured out:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Lemon juice measured out<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Extra sugar was added to the lemon juice:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Extra sugar added to lemon juice<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The lemon juice and extra sugar were mixed:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Lemon juice and extra sugar mixed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The lemon juice and sugar mix were added to the chopped rhubarb and sugar:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Lemon juice and sugar added to chopped rhubarb and sugar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The chopped rhubarb, sugar, and lemon juice were mixed some more:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Chopped rhubarb, sugar, and lemon juice mixed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Chopped rhubarb, sugar, and lemon juice mixed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

A lid was placed on the pot of rhubarb, sugar, and lemon juice:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Lid placed on pot of chopped rhubarb mix<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The pot of chopped rhubarb, sugar, and lemon juice was placed in a fridge overnight:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Pot of chopped rhubarb mix placed in fridge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Day two:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Early the next morning, I checked on the pot of chopped rhubarb:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Pot of chopped rhubarb checked<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

As can be sort of be seen above and better in the following photo, a good amount of liquid had been drawn by the sugar from the pieces of chopped rhubarb:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Liquid drawn from chopped rhubarb<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The chopped rhubarb was mixed again with a spoon:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Chopped rhubarb mixed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The pot of chopped rhubarb was returned to the fridge until later that evening (after coming home from work.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That evening, a jar wrench, a jar funnel, tongs, a ladle, and a stainless steel flipper were taken out:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Jar wrench, jar funnel, tongs, ladle, and stainless steel flipper taken out<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Mason jars, a few more than I expected to need, and new lids and lid rings, were taken out, but kept aside for the moment:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Mason jars and lids taken out<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

A pot and trivet were taken out, to act as a boiling water bath soon:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Pot and trivet taken out<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The trivet was placed in the bottom of the pot:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Trivet placed in pot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The pot was filled with water:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Pot filled with water<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Pot filled with water<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The pot of water was placed on a burner on the stove:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Pot of water placed on stove<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The stove was turned on:<\/p>\n\n\n

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… and the lid was placed back on the pot:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Lid placed on pot of water<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Since I had placed the pot of water on a smaller burner, which proved to be a mistake, I still waited a bit before taking out the pot of chopped rhubarb, sugar, and lemon juice, and placing it on the stove:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Pot of Rhubarb, sugar, and lemon juice placed on stove<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

After waiting a bit more, having gauged the heating up of the pot of water, the burner under the chopped rhubarb mix was turned on:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Burner under chopped rhubarb mix turned on<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The lid on the pot of chopped rhubarb mix was removed:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Lid removed from pot of rhubarb mix<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

As the rhubarb mix was heating up, I of course mixed it to avoid burning:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Rhubarb mix being mixed while heating<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Rhubarb mix being mixed while heating<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The rhubarb mix began to boil:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Rhubarb mix beginning to boil<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

At this point, the rhubarb mix was taken off the burner, and since the water bath had not yet reached the boiling point, I brought it forward to the larger burner to bring it to a boil more quickly:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Water bath brought forward to larger burner on stove<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Fortunately, it was obvious that the water bath was “hot enough” to dip the (clean) bottle funnel to sanitize it:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Sanitizing bottle funnel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The bottle funnel was placed in the neck of a jar:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Jar funnel placed in neck of jar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The ladle was dipped in the hot water to sanitize it:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Ladle sanitized<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

I started ladling the boiled rhubarb mix into the jar until it was filled:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Ladling boiled rhubarb mix into jar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Jar filled<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

A lid and ring were brought to the jar, and screwed onto the jar (oops, I forgot to take a picture of this second part):<\/p>\n\n\n

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Lid brought to filled jar and screwed on<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The rest of the boiled rhubarb mix was transferred into jars, and lids were screwed onto the jars:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Filled jars with lids screwed on<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

At this point, the water in the water bath was finally starting to boil:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Water bath starting to boil<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Using the jar wrench, the filled jars were transferred to the water bath:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Filled jars transferred to water bath<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Filled jars transferred to water bath<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Once the water had come to a rolling boil …<\/p>\n\n\n

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Water bath coming to a rolling boil<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

… a timer was set to 15 minutes …<\/p>\n\n\n

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Timer set to 15 minutes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

… and the lid was placed back on the pot with the water bath and filled jars:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Lid placed on water bath<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

At this point, the water was boiling so vigorously, that water was splashing out of the pot! <\/p>\n\n\n

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Water splashing out of boiling water bath onto stovetop<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

After 15 minutes had elapsed, the filled jars were removed from the water bath using the jar wrench:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Removing filled jars with jar wrench<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The now heat-processed jars were placed on the the cutting board:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Heat-processed jar placed on cutting board<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Heat-processed jars placed on cutting board<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Hot water collecting on the jars was soaked up with a towel:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Water on jars soaked up with towel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The jars were moved apart from each other to allow for some ambient cooling for a few moments:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Jars separated to facilitate ambient cooling<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Then, the still-warm jars were moved to a fridge to complete cooling.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Jars moved to fridge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

At this point, I changed tack a bit and printed out some labels for the jars, modifying another label template I have for my pickled eggs<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Printed labels for jars of stewed rhubarb<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Scissors, a hole punch, and some elastics were taken out:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Scissors, hole punch, and elastics taken out<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Four labels were cut from the sheet:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Label cut from sheet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Label cut from sheet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Labels cut from sheet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

A date code (in this case for 09 August, 2023, the day I filled and processed the jars) was written on the back \/ inside of each label:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Date code written on backside of label<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Date code written on backside of labels<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The labels were folded over onto themselves:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Label folded over on itself<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Label folded over on themselves<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

I should note at this point at which the print is more legible, that I live in Montreal, where French predominates, hence the labels are in both English and French. As it happened in the picture above, the folded labels with the English showing were upside down because that’s how I inadvertently happened to flip them over. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I then picked up the labels, piled them one on another, and crimped the folds:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Labels brought together and folds crimped<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

A hole was punched through the labels on the end opposite to the fold:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Hole punched through labels<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Hole punched through labels<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

On each individual label, the end near the hole was folded over:<\/p>\n\n\n

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End near hole folded over<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Ends near holes folded over<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Ah here, the English labels are right side up. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An elastic was threaded through the hole of a label:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Elastic threaded through hole in label<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The elastic was looped into itself, and loosely tightened to allow for it to at once hold the label, as well as have a loop to use to go around a jar’s neck:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Elastic looped into itself<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

… which was repeated for the other three labels:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Elastics looped into themselves<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The following morning, the cooled (and fully sealed) jars were removed from the fridge, and brought to the workspace where the labels were:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Cooled bottles brought out<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Labels were looped around the jars:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Label looped around jar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Labels looped around jars<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

These jars will be kept to be donated to my church’s fall fair, along with a few jars of my pickled eggs<\/a>! (And, Mom will receive any which don’t sell. \ud83d\ude42 ) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I picked up making stewed rhubarb because my mom always liked using the rhubarb grown in her garden to make stewed rhubarb and rhubarb chutney. (Ironically, for this post, and often enough, I use rhubarb purchased from the grocery store!) Note that this recipe effectively needs to be done over two days, or at least … <\/p>\n

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