Lots of us have great memories of watching grandma making jams and preserves. Picking the fruits, adding the sugar, putting it in jars, ahh the good old days with granny. In today’s lesson we reminisce about all of this and how great it was to have grandma around!

Dialogue

A: Pra mim, a melhor compota da vovó era a de figo.

B: É, e a cocada com maracujá dela era fantástica também.

A: Hoje em dia já não tem gente que faz os doces como antes, não é?

B: É verdade, dá muito trabalho.


A: To me the best preserves that grandma made were the fig ones.

B: Yes, and her passion fruit coconut candy was fantastic too.

A: Nowadays people don’t make sweets like they used to, you know?

B: It’s true, it’s a lot of work.