House In Order, day 26

[cjsmith]

Fridge Purge!

Ham from 2004. Onion dip from 2003. Yogurt from February (a guest had left it). Homemade jelly that seemed to be crystallizing, or something... something terrifying, anyway. I don't know what it was but I got it out of there.

Plus some progress on a Not-So-Ancient Unfinished Project: transform a pair of geta into replacements for my rapidly dissolving post-op shoes. So far, I have pulled the Y-shaped strap out.

Comments

[therobbergirl.livejournal.com]

My mother always scolded when my father or I tried to throw away crystallized jam or honey. It's wasteful, you know - if you just heat the jar for a while, it turns back into jam/honey. *shudder*

I dunno about jam, but it really is all right to do it with honey. Honey's crystallization has nothing to do with its age, but its temperature. When I lived in a very cold house in Berkeley that none of us could afford to heat, we had to microwave the honey almost every morning during the winter.

Jam, though, that's a new one on me. It can't be the chill because it's supposed to refrigerated once you open the seal. I've had some old jam before, but it molded. For some reason, that creeped me out, seeing mold on jam. It was just ... wrong.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

New one on me, too. It had indeed been refrigerated. I'm not SURE this effect wasn't mold, but it was... crunchy, delicately crunchy, like the insides of chocolate liqueur candies that have sat for a while. I figured it was the sugar separating and crystallizing. Maybe. Best guess. Very, very odd. I wonder what I did wrong.