Autumn Impressions

Exercise for the poem Crabapple Jelly by Vicki Feaver

Crabapple Jelly by Vicki Feaver

Read the poem and finish the sentence chunks with your impressions on your senses based on the poem.

I see…………………………………………………………………………………………….

I feel…………………………………………………………………………………………….

I hear…………………………………………………………………………………………….

I smell……………………………………………………………………………………………

I taste…………………………………………………………………………………………….

Crabapple Jelly by Vicki Feaver from IN THE HEYDAYS OF HIS EYES (taut jeans dancing) An Anthology of Poetry about Being Young and Growing Up

Crab apple jelly

Vicki Feaver

Every year you said it wasn’t worth the trouble—
you’d better things to do with your time—
and it made you furious when the jars 
were sold at the church fête
for less than the cost of sugar.

And every year you drove into the lanes
around Calverton to search
for the wild trees whose apples 
looked as red and as sweet as cherries,
and tasted sharper than gooseberries.

You cooked them in the wide copper pan
Grandma brought with her from Wigan,
smashing them against the sides
with a long wooden spoon to split
the skins, straining the pulp

through an old muslin nappy.
It hung for days, tied with string
to the kitchen steps, dripping
into a bowl on the floor—
brown-stained, horrible,

a head in a bag, a pouch
of sourness, of all that went wrong
in that house of women.  The last drops
you wrung out with your hands;
then, closing doors and windows

to shut out the clamouring wasps,
you boiled up the juice with sugar,
dribbling the syrup onto a cold plate
until it set to a glaze
filling the heated jars.

When they were cool
you held one up to the light
to see if the jelly had cleared.
Oh, Mummy, it was as clear and shining
as stained glass and the color of fire.

Exercise for Jams and Jellies

Jams and Jellies

You are going to read about Jams and Jellies. Answer the questions connected to the text.

Why is autumn a pleasant time if cooking takes your fancy?

What is suggested to do if you aren’t an owner of garden orchards, yet you are into making jellies?

Why is it beneficial to make your own jams and jellies?

Collect the action verbs of jelly making with their Hungarian meanings!

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Jams and Jellies from Country Living September 2010

Exercise for Perfect Pies

The Perfect Pies

Find some expressions, phrases in the text which are equivalent for the definitions provided

1. the quality or state of being widely admired, accepted, or sought after (paragraph 1)-………………………………………..
2. attractive to the sense of taste or smell; salty or spicy, not sweet (paragraph 1)-………………………………………………………………………
3. having elements of great variety; heterogeneous (paragraph1) -……………………………………………
4. gathered, amassed or piled up (paragraph 1)-………………………………………………………………
5. a major achievement or success that permits further progress (paragraph 2)-…………………………….
6. having or showing no regard for what is right or honorable (paragraph 3)-…………………………………
7.  fleshy hindquarters; behind the loin and above the round (paragraph 4)-………………………………….
8. appealing to or designed for high-income consumers (paragraph 4)-……………………………………….
9. following in time or order; succeeding (paragraph 6)-…………………………………………………………
10. a fortified place or a fortress (paragraph 7)-…………………………………………………………………….
11. lower in character, quality, or value (paragraph 7)-……………………………………………………………
12. pressed or pinched into small regular folds and  ridges (paragraph 8)-……………………………………..
13. of or relating to a kitchen and to cookery (paragraph 8)-……………………………………………………..
14. based on fact or sound reason; well-founded (paragraph 8)-………………………………………………...
15. you are joking that you are even better than that person (paragraph 8)-……………………………………

Perfect Pies

SIMPLE SIMON MET A PIEMAN

NURSERY RHYME

Simple Simon met a pieman,

Going to the fair;

Says Simple Simon to the pieman,

Let me taste your ware.

Says the pieman to Simple Simon,

Show me first your penny;

Says Simple Simon to the pieman,

Indeed I have not any.

Simple Simon went a-fishing,

For to catch a whale;

All the water he had got,

Was in his mother's pail.

Simple Simon went to look

If plums grew on a thistle;

He pricked his fingers very much,

Which made poor Simon whistle.