Besides the sewing of little shirts and the knitting of swaddling bands, on which they were all engaged, to-day jam was being made there in a way new to Agatha Mikhaylovna: without the addition of water to the fruit.
Además de la costura de camisitas, faldones y mantillas en que estaban ocupadas todas, tenían que hervir la confitura por un método ignorado por Agafia Mijailovna, es decir, sin añadir agua.