My cousin, Dora, has a
few grape vines and every year she grows a patch of strawberries and harvests some clumps of grapes. There’s no profit
in the venture so it’s done mainly just for the heck of it. Some get eaten fresh but most end up as grape
jelly and strawberry jam. The only
problem is that when she’s stirring the brews on her kitchen stove the sugar
laden boiling water has a tendency to bubble up and burn her wrists. Well yes, she uses mittens but what she
really needed was a longer handled stirring spoon. So she asked the old Woods Roamer if he’d
make her a spoon for concocting jellies and jams. The project took a few minutes and what you
see in the photos is the result. Go out
and cut a branch and make a spoon. Used
one of my crooked knives for most of the preliminary carving and then some
sandpaper starting at 60-grit and ending up at 500 grit. Top it all off with some food-safe mineral
oil and walla….a long-handled
stirring spoon. I’ll get the first jars
of jelly and jam, of course.
