Big day

Today I made my own vanilla extract, jelly and cracked wheat bread. Not bad for a Fried Cook.

I'll know in a week if the vanilla extract will work. It looks like a lab specimen right now.

I'll know tomorrow if the cracked wheat bread is going to work. It's currently on a slow rise in the fridge. Since the Small Fry and I are going to the Zoo tomorrow, it won't be baked till after 2. We'll see.

And the jelly. The jelly! My friend Peg demystified this elaborate canning process of jelly making. It's still an ordeal, but one I am ready to tackle now. She set me up with cans, lids, Sure Jell and crab apples. Just need a shoestring and pillow case. More about that to come.