7 thoughts on “Don’t Be Careless!”

1. Didn’t know one could be careless about sugar. Sugar is sugar. Never thought brands were very different. We’re loyal to the price.

2. Not entirely clear about the differences between canning and preserving, even though my grandmother, mother, and wife all canned. Or preserved. Whatever.

3. You made me curious, kevinf, so I Googled. There *is* actually a difference in meaning — it depends on the amount of sugar used, appropriately enough. In preserving, the ratio of sugar to fruit is anywhere between three-quarters to equal parts. In canning, it’s anything up to one-third sugar. (Don’t ask me what it is when the sugar is between one-third and three-quarters the amount of fruit … get another cookbook, I suppose.)

   I had no idea they were technically two different things.

4. It makes sense — “preserves” = jams and jellies, which have a high sugar content. I’d never thought of the difference in terms of the verbs, though, only the resulting nouns.

5. Yes!! The “true” sugar!

6. It’s about time you show up to approve of this ad, Grant. I posted it especially for you!

7. Sugar, like money, is fungible. I learned that word in law school. My wife still swears by C&H though. And she’s the Physics Teacher. (Chemistry, not so much).

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