C&H Sugar Cubes

Some things are not easy to come by these days. When you have a cookie, candy, and sweets monster in the house the supplies must be maintained. My husband has a big sweet tooth. He loves chocolate, candy and sugar. He drinks coffee in the morning and tea after dinner. With his drinks he always has sugar cubes. It’s a cultural thing. He doesn’t use the type of sugar that is dissolved in the drink, but sugar cubes that you put in your mouth and soak them up with the tea or coffee. Since we have been ordering our groceries on line since March, it’s been more and more difficult to find sugar cubes. I’m not sure what the big deal is. The only time we were in the grocery store was to get flu shots. Even then when we checked the aisle for cubes they weren’t there. In the meantime I got a box of individual packs of sugar like you find in the restaurant. It’s a last resort. So I searched amazon to find something before the cube supply ran out. It wasn’t cheap, but I decided to get six boxes of C&H sugar cubes as a surprise package delivery. It was like Christmas when they arrived. So we can breathe a sigh of relief for awhile - until the next time. 

Quince Jelly

Whenever we walk to the US Botanical garden, my husband takes notice of the quince tree regardless of the season. We had a quince bush growing in our front yard in Milwaukee. It only blossomed, but never produced the quince. It tastes kind of like a wooden apple, but he loves it. So this was the perfect weekend to make some quince jelly - something he does every year. We needed to pick up a few items at the grocery store and they they were - sitting in the fruit department waiting to be snagged by my husband who is always on the look out for them. It takes a whole lot of sugar and lemon juice, and I'm not sure what else. A recipe is never used. But when it is over, there is enough jelly to fill many containers. Today he had the homemade jelly with bread, and it was really good - to him. One of these days I should make some labels for his canning expertise and his enthusiasm.