Text reads: "at some point in your life you will be boiling fruit, water, sugar, and lemon juice in a pot to make a syrup or jam. The instructions will tell you to simmer for a certain period of time. Your timer will go off and you will look at the pot and go "hm this doesn't look thick enough, maybe I'll let it go for another 10 minutes". This is the devil speaking. It's only so liquid right now because it's at boiling point. It will thicken when it cools down. Learn from the follies of my youth and do not let this happen to you."
The real lesson to be learnt here is that cookery is in fact the devil whispering directly into your brain and making the fire seem yummy.
Fruit is best consumed in its whole, fresh, ripe, raw form, and if you need to cook it, something isn't right.
I agree but this is definitely tropic-dweller privilege speaking here lol
Perhaps so. If I needed to survive the winter in finland, I'd probably make jam too.
as a swede, seeing the fruits people consider "boring" in the tropics makes me weep profusely
we have okay mangos, whoop de doo
Fruit is best consumed in its whole, fresh, ripe, raw form, but if I miscalculated how much my family likes fruit based on hour much I line fruit them I'm damn well going to cook the rest instead of letting it spoil. Fresh fruit is best, fruit compote is second best.
I also prefer fresh fruit, but at least around here, we dont have them year round, so I jam anything else I'm not able to feast upon during harvesting period lol