Today I went blackberry picking with my mum and brother.
You will need to weigh your blackberries and the same amount of jam sugar or granulated sugar as the blackberries.
Lets get started. First put enough jam jars in a sink of hot water and a bit of soap to get the labels of. you will need to put your blackberries in a pan with the juice of half a lemon.
The lemon is important otherwise the jam will not set.
Put on a high heat until it boils don't forget to stir it .
Then turn it down and let it simmer for 15 minutes then add the sugar stir it until it dissolves turn it up bring it to the boil. Boil without stirring until it reaches 105 degrees [setting point]. If you don't have a sugar thermometer put a plate in the freezer, then put a drop of jam on it, let it set, then put your finger on the jam and if it crinkles its ready. If not, it's not. Now to sterilise the jars and lids put the jars and lids in an oven on 100 degrees for about 1O minutes take them out and put the hot jam in the hot jars and then you are done.
Saturday, September 5, 2015
Thursday, August 6, 2015
A day at stonehenge
Yesterday I went to Stonehenge. It was very busy and we had to walk a very long way to get to the stones.
Stonehenge was built in 2,500 bc in the neolithic years in Wiltshire, England. It was originally used to celebrate the winter solstice.
Sarsen are the stones standing upright on the outside of the circle and they are from the Marlborough downs. Lintels are the stones that lie across the top of the sarsens. Blue stones are the stones in the middle of stonehenge witch people believed would heal sickness they are from the Preseli hills. You can tell if something is a blue stone by chipping a bit of and dipping it into water because it will turn blue with white freckles. Trilithons are the stones in the middle with lintels on top.
Sometimes you would be buried in a barrow which is a place to be buried you would be buried with everything you own (e.g. your gold, jewels, weapons and sometimes your pets). There are barrows around Stonehenge one of them is called bush barrow which would be a very special place to be buried.
There are other stone sculptures around the place like Lanyon quit, St. Lythans burial chamber, Rudston Monolith. People still have rituals at Stonehenge.
I am annoyed they have closed it of to the public it would be better if it was free for everybody but it is looked after better closed off though they might have gone too far by putting a rope around it so you can't touch the stones or run around them.
Stonehenge was built in 2,500 bc in the neolithic years in Wiltshire, England. It was originally used to celebrate the winter solstice.
Sarsen are the stones standing upright on the outside of the circle and they are from the Marlborough downs. Lintels are the stones that lie across the top of the sarsens. Blue stones are the stones in the middle of stonehenge witch people believed would heal sickness they are from the Preseli hills. You can tell if something is a blue stone by chipping a bit of and dipping it into water because it will turn blue with white freckles. Trilithons are the stones in the middle with lintels on top.
Sometimes you would be buried in a barrow which is a place to be buried you would be buried with everything you own (e.g. your gold, jewels, weapons and sometimes your pets). There are barrows around Stonehenge one of them is called bush barrow which would be a very special place to be buried.
There are other stone sculptures around the place like Lanyon quit, St. Lythans burial chamber, Rudston Monolith. People still have rituals at Stonehenge.
I am annoyed they have closed it of to the public it would be better if it was free for everybody but it is looked after better closed off though they might have gone too far by putting a rope around it so you can't touch the stones or run around them.
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