apricot algebra

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12 pounds of apricots (half a lug), one medium pineapple, 2 lemons, sugar to 2/3 the volume and the nice fellow's mystical homeopathic dollop of pectin makes six quarts and something more than a pint of apricot pineapple jam.

to put this jam up I used eleven half-pint jars and seven pint jars. And another pint jar for the unsealed eat-it-now something-over-a-half-pint left over.

Now I need to design and print eighteen labels.

For some reason, our jam always comes out a glowing vermillion color instead of the pale orange that other people's apricot jam is.