Apricot Freezer Jam

Thanks to a generous friend, I had a big bag of apricots for snacking and jamming over the weekend. This is a freezer jam doing its time on the counter before icy storage.

Apricot Preserves

How fortunate I am that a friend invited me over to pick apricots last week. Here are some of the pitted fruits macerating in sugar. I canned them as apricot preserves, adding only a little lemon juice after simmering them for a couple of hours. I also did an experimental apricot-lavender jam. No judgement call yet on success or failure for that project yet.