Martha Stewart Horse's kitchen tip #1
By The Horse
@TheHorse (238275)
Walnut Creek, California
June 25, 2016 8:56pm CST
If you have a friend who gives you a paper bag full of apricots from his tree, and you eat two or three apricots a day, and are delightfully regular, not to mention happy with the taste, and then realize after five days that you still have half a bag of apricots left, and that they're starting to go soft, then do not attempt to put the paper bag containing your remaining soft apricots into the garbage without supporting the bottom of the bag.
This has been your Martha Stewart Horse kitchen tip of the day.
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@marguicha (230334)
• Chile
26 Jun 16
Maybe what I would have done is to support the bottom of the bag, turn it in the sink and see if there are some that could be turned into jam. I make jam with the apricots that fall off the tree and cut off the bird eaten pieces.
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@JamesHxstatic (29410)
• Eugene, Oregon
26 Jun 16
Who knew? Just because the bottom of the bag was a little wet, who knew? This is a timely tip in peach and nectarine season.
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@JamesHxstatic (29410)
• Eugene, Oregon
26 Jun 16
@TheHorse And our gratitude is yours.
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@ElizabethWallace (12069)
• United States
26 Jun 16
Okay, Martha, that is a wise tip. But here's another from your tale. Put half of the donations into a glass container in the refrigerator when you arrive home with the donation from your friend. Once the first half of the fruit is eaten, put the glass container on the counter and enjoy fresh fruit twice as long.
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@TheHorse (238275)
• Walnut Creek, California
27 Jun 16
@ElizabethWallace I scored some strawberries at the farmers market gig today. They're in the fridge now, breathing. Thanks!
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@ElizabethWallace (12069)
• United States
26 Jun 16
@TheHorse I think fruit needs to breathe. That's what I do. Unless it is green and you want it to ripen. Then inside a brown paper bag on the counter is good, but it is also best if the fruit is not touching another piece of fruit, so they don't spoil.
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@GardenGerty (169406)
• United States
26 Jun 16
I would have been putting those sweet little fruits into my freezer while I still could.
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@crazyhorseladycx (39503)
• United States
26 Jun 16
ack!! no, please tell me such jest t'weren't so! dang...i'd made a batch'f apricot preserves outta those lovelies myself. 
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@crazyhorseladycx (39503)
• United States
27 Jun 16
@TheHorse 
if'n i'd known ya'd been givin' such a gift, i'd surely hollered, hon.
if'n i'd known ya'd been givin' such a gift, i'd surely hollered, hon.
@Jeanniemaries (8237)
• United States
26 Jun 16
When I lived in Concord we had a fabulous apricot tree that was loaded with fruit year after year. How lucky we were....but that is how is looks under the tree and you better believe it must be cleaned up regularly by the children of the house. I can almost smell the sweetness by looking at your picture. I had completely forgotten they were in season this early in the summer. Oh the gallons of apricot jam we made over the years.
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@rachz_kisses (3838)
• Philippines
26 Jun 16
And thank you for that tip tho. I'll keep that in mind.
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