I’ve been trying out a dairy-free and grain-free diet recently, and it’s very hard to come up with a good dessert recipe! Thanks, Deborah, for giving me something to bring to my sister, Deborah’s, thanksgiving dinner!

Yes, I hope to make my own elderberry jelly this year. The fruit is quite seedy and you need a lot of it to get enough juice. But the jelly I’ve had is delicious!
Around here the plants grow on stream banks and the fruit is ripe in late August. In the next week or so I’ll be scouting out a good stand of bushes. Summer fun!

Apricot jam is just about my favorite. Soon, I’ll be knocking on the door of a neighbor who has a gigantic apricot tree- I pick the fruit and share the jam with them.It’s perfect!!