Well, we've always been cooking with gas in this house. However, today we had to get our gas service turned off while workers switched the lines to our house to modern, plastic ones. They promised us it would only take a few hours and then the gas company would be "right out" to turn it all back on again.
The workers showed up at 7 am. At around 11:30 they shut off the gas, finished their part, and moved on. They said the guy would be there shortly. Well, he showed up around 6:30 pm. So, for that time, we were without a stove, a dryer, and hot water. Couldn't have been a more awkward time as I had started a batch of pickle relish in the morning and went and bought a half bushel of peaches for canning.
All I managed to do tonight was to finish the pickle relish: Grandmother's Golden Relish in The Ball Complete Book of Home Preserving. Instead of red and green peppers I used green peppers and red and yellow onions. It's very sweet! I got 8 and a half cups of relish. Tomorrow I'll do what I can with the peaches.
This relish won first place at the Topsfield Fair!
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