Gudrun Enger Channels Her ‘Inner Grandma’ Used As a Base for Marinara Sauce
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& New restaurants, recipe ideas, and profiles of local chefs. ■ August 6, 2008 A LSO INSIDE C ALENDAR 25 R EAL ESTATE 27 C LASSIFIEDS 32 SECTION 2 | | Photos by Veronica Weber/The Almanac Gudrun Enger, above, checks the temperature on a kettle of peach jam; at top, she uses a wide-mouth funnel to spoon peach preserves into a mason jar; at left, peaches and ginger, plus a dash of pepper, go into Ms. Enger’s homemade jam. WellPreserved By Jane Knoerle The home-canned tomatoes are often Almanac Lifestyles Editor Gudrun Enger channels her ‘inner grandma’ used as a base for marinara sauce. Peaches for jam and pickling cucum- e think of home canning as a when it comes to home canning bers are purchased at Webb Ranch in grandma thing. Picture granny Nostalgia for earlier times led Gudrun years later, she turned green tomatoes from Portola Valley. In high season, Webb also Whunched over a pot of splattering Enger of Menlo Park to make her first foray her garden into green tomato mincemeat. sells canning tomatoes at a lower price. jam, shooing kids and flies out of the steamy into home canning. “My two grandmas and “We use it for pies at Thanksgiving,” she Ms. Enger was making peach jam with kitchen on a hot August afternoon. my mom were all into freezing and can- says. She found the mincemeat recipe in the ginger on the day we visited. She also added Years ago, canning wasn’t a choice for ning,” she says. As a child, she went with her 1963 “Freezing and Canning Cookbook.” black pepper. “I like to experiment in my homemakers, it was a necessity. Trees on mother to U-pick farms near Watsonville to Preserving tomatoes and bread and cooking,” she says. She also makes nectar- the land were heavy with fruit. The gar- pick olallieberries for jam. butter pickles are now part of her reper- ine jam flavored with vanilla bean. den was ripe with produce that couldn’t When her own son was a baby, she toire. “Last year I did 40 pounds of toma- She uses no pectin in the jam, so it takes wait. If the family was going to eat well continued the tradition. “I put him in a toes in quart and pint jars.” She orders longer to cook. “I like the flavor and color in the coming winter, the harvest had to backpack, and headed to a U-pick farm. roma tomatoes from the local Com- when using a long-cooking method. The be preserved. I made olallieberry jam and gave away munity Supported Agriculture (CSA), a peaches seem to carmelize.” The fruits of that labor were stored in the most of it to my friends.” service that also delivers a weekly box of Her basic jam recipe uses 5-1/2 to 6 cups basement or fruit cellar. It was a point of That was the beginning. When a colleague produce to her home. of fruit to 4 to 5 cups of sugar and 2 table- pride to display gleaming jars of red tomatoes, at work at Stanford University brought in “Canned tomatoes are so high in sodi- green pickles, jewel-colored jams and jellies. plums, she made plum jam. A couple of um, I like to put up my own,” she says. See CANNING, page 23 August 6, 2008 ■ The Almanac ■ 21 AASHINSHIN OOMPANYMPANY CMENLO PARK (650) 614-3500 PORTOLA VALLEY (650) 529-2900C WOODSIDE (650) 529-1000 LOS ALTOS (650) 948-8050 PALO ALTO (650) 853-7100 SAN CARLOS (650) 598-4900 SAN MATEO (650) 343-3700 BURLINGAME (650) 340-9688 ■ ATHERTON ■ ❘■ PALO ALTO ■ Scheduled for completion in late Fall. This Rare opportunity on a quiet residential St. 3 luxurious villa boast 6BR/7BA, 2 half BA’s, 2 separate Tudor style homes. master suites. Paul Skrabo $1,775,000 Kristin Cashin $9,995,000 Charming 3BR/2BA home in sought after This luxurious villa boast 6BR/7BA, 2 half Midtown neighborhood location. 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