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| Rivergirl_2007 |
Posted - May 27 2010 : 2:09:10 PM
Canning season has started for me. I canned asparagus last week, the end of the season for that, and I made mulberry syrup today. Every year I look forward to canning new items and by the end of summer I wonder why I ever started. |
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| neeter302 |
Posted - Sep 27 2010 : 11:56:36 AM
Heather if you are still having an abundance of apples you might try apple butter. Homemade is so good, store bought just doesn't compare, we eat it on everything, toast, biscuits, pancakes, muffins. There are some really easy crock pot recipes out there, careful though, my last batch I made last year I left the crockpot on too long and scorched it & had to throw it out ! Cinnamon apple rings are great too and dehydrated apples make a healthy snack
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| Rivergirl_2007 |
Posted - Sep 20 2010 : 9:27:36 PM
I agree with you ladies about the rewards of such hard work. I love seeing the jars all lined up on the shelves and sharing healthy food with my family and friends. Yesterday, I canned pears. I rarely have access to a pear tree, but fortunately did this year. A man my husband was doing business happened to ask if we liked pears. He had a tree behind his business and said I could pick all I wanted. He didn't have to ask twice. I showed up the next day with my fruit picker and filled a half-bushel box. I couldn't reach any more than that, but managed to get 18 qts out of them. |
| Heather B |
Posted - Sep 14 2010 : 06:32:52 AM
My DH and I have been foraging in the neighborhood for apples the last two weekends. Several of our neighbors have trees and just let the apples fall. 5 Bushels so far. So what do we do with apples....well the DH loves applesauce so we made four cases of quart jars in applesauce, 10 pints of cinnnamon applesauce and 8 quarts of pie filling. Theres a couple more trees we are waiting on, if all goes well I'll dry some and make some more pie filling. Anyone one have any other ideas for apples? Recipes?
Heather
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| Leezard |
Posted - Sep 14 2010 : 03:37:36 AM
So far we've done 21 quarts and 16 pints of tomato juice, 14 pints of pears and 7 pints of salsa. Next on the list is applesauce and apple pie filling.
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| J.F. Brown |
Posted - Sep 13 2010 : 9:34:03 PM
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Originally posted by Lida
Jamie,
Please tell me about your dried elderberries! What do you use them for? I picked 8 quarts a few days ago and froze most of them, plus an elderberry pie. I still have more than a quart picked over in the fridge, waiting to be made into jam. I am completely out of freezer space so I need to can or dehydrate the ones I froze, along with some blueberries to free up some freezer space.
Thank you.
Lida
Hi, Lida, sorry for the delay in responding! I actually dried blueberries, and they were bought at a farmer's market. Someday I'll grow them! They took two forevers to dry; no doubt because my dehydrator is old, cheap and small, and I probably overloaded it. They are very tasty though, and I choose not to do the math to see if they are less-- or likely, more-- expensive than if I'd bought them at Trader Joe's. The intention is to use them instead of raisins, having a raisin-hater at my house.
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| highlandviewpantry |
Posted - Sep 09 2010 : 05:00:17 AM
My favorite things to can because we use them up are - applesauce, hot pepper mustard, zucchini relish and zucchini pickles. Yum!
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| Lida |
Posted - Sep 09 2010 : 03:04:29 AM
Jamie,
Please tell me about your dried elderberries! What do you use them for? I picked 8 quarts a few days ago and froze most of them, plus an elderberry pie. I still have more than a quart picked over in the fridge, waiting to be made into jam. I am completely out of freezer space so I need to can or dehydrate the ones I froze, along with some blueberries to free up some freezer space.
Thank you.
Lida
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| J.F. Brown |
Posted - Sep 08 2010 : 7:52:38 PM
It feels so good to can again! This is the first batch in years, and a small one. I made strawberry jam a little earlier this summer, and peach butter last Monday. Just now finished prepping blueberries;a whole flat went in the dryer, another half-flat in the freezer, and we're eating the rest by the handful. Corn is cooking,to be stripped off the cob and frozen,but I'm tempted to make soup instead.
I'd like to do tomatoes, but we had such a cold, wet summer they haven't been great. |
| Ms.Lilly |
Posted - Sep 08 2010 : 06:44:12 AM
Last week ends totals- 43 pints sweet lime pickles, 19 half pints dill pickle relish, and 18 half pints of sweet pickle relish.
Hard to belive I am on the downhill sidde of this years canning. Only things left are pears, more apples, and carrots. Ok maybe some potatos too.
Lillian
Oops forgot the grape juice! |
| Lida |
Posted - Sep 08 2010 : 02:42:42 AM
Sue- I have been successful with finding canning jars at estate sales. They are usually pretty grungy but clean up to sparkling.
Happy canning!
Lida |
| Sue Feely |
Posted - Sep 07 2010 : 11:19:40 PM
I absolutely love to can, love to see the shiny colorful jars all lined up when they are done! This year, so far, I have canned dill pickles and just yesterday tomatoes. Tomorrow I am going to tackle peaches which I have never done before! I want to can more but jars are hard to find, I have even looked on Craigs list, actually found 2 offering jars but they were already sold! |
| emsmommy5 |
Posted - Sep 07 2010 : 10:01:43 PM
Tally for the latest round.... yesterday- several jars of blackberries from the backyard and 8 qts of nectarines. Today's tally.... 28 pints of green beans and the 20 qts of salsa is sitting in the fridge waiting to be bottled tomorrow. My back just couldn't do another hour of bottling and lifting tonight. Finally got the dried garlic out of the dehydrator. Boy that took WAY to long! And... its amazing how two good sized zuchinni's can be dried and fit in less than a pint! it's such a blessing to look on the shelf and see the "fruits" of my labors adding up to a great supply of healthy food for my family.
Do what you love, love what you do. |
| AliciaNak |
Posted - Sep 07 2010 : 2:21:55 PM
I'm working on 22 pounds of chokecherries. Made 7 half pints of jam last night, trying some jelly today. Wonder if they would do good as pickled cherries? Then I'll be making rose hip jelly. The roses and chokecherry trees grew right next to each other everywhere we picked. Any tips for rose hips? Can't wait for the elderberries to fully ripen, they are what I was really after. :) The end of the week my friend Kat wants to get together to put up some beef stock. A few weeks ago we had an ALL-DAYER putting up 20 pints of Chicken stock. Slowly but surely my pantry is turning to home canned goods and not store bought. Love it!
Alicia
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| 4HMom |
Posted - Aug 29 2010 : 3:02:47 PM
I've never tried that recipe before, but it smells good!
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| Heather B |
Posted - Aug 29 2010 : 12:51:36 PM
Kelly, the savory garlic bacon sounds yummy!
Heather
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| 4HMom |
Posted - Aug 29 2010 : 12:48:27 PM
I've been canning all weekend! Thankfully is cool and rainy out, so it's a lot easier to be inside with the stove on! :) I've made zesty bread and butter pickles, garlic/dill pickles, pork stock (we butchered on Wednesday and had loads of good soup bones), and fish. I've also got 20 pounds of bacon curing for me to smoke on Thursday; four different kinds (regular, maple cured, brown sugar cured, and savory garlic cured).
"Be the change you want to see in the world" -Gandhi |
| Heather B |
Posted - Aug 29 2010 : 08:56:37 AM
This years tomatoes are a little on the slow side here. So while I wait I found a cool recipe to play with. Cactus jelly! I posted the recipe on my "homestead in the city" blog if your interested in giving it a shot.
Heather
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"Only your real friends tell you when your face is dirty"
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| fudsy |
Posted - Aug 29 2010 : 07:41:10 AM
Oh,
I'll have to look on Craig's list. I know because of the late season that I'm a little early. I have my toamatoes covered because of the cooler temps this week. But I now have a week off as we are headed camping to Priest Lake, Idaho. What a great area
Farmgirl Sister #1599
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| fudsy |
Posted - Aug 29 2010 : 07:38:06 AM
The Yakima tomatoes are coming on really late this year
That is interesting because that is where he says they tomatoes are from. I just live next door here in North Idaho. I think I'll pass on his and look down in Coeur d'Alene
Farmgirl Sister #1599
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| PilgrimSoul |
Posted - Aug 29 2010 : 07:16:16 AM
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Originally posted by karla
I usually freeze my peppers. But I am thinking dehydrated would work also. Takes up less space when you dehydrate them.
I dehydrated some peppers this week. It worked well (took about 24 hours), but the smell got to be too much, even with open windows. I'd been planning on dehydrating hot peppers, but I'm afraid the smell would irritate my 5 month old (and my husband and me!). I might just freeze peppers from now on. Also, I had some red peppers that I roasted and froze. |
| star-schipp |
Posted - Aug 29 2010 : 06:23:57 AM
Did you say Mt. Dew jelly????? My boys would LOVE that!
We can do no great things; only small things with great love - Mother Teresa
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| OneCraftyBugger |
Posted - Aug 28 2010 : 8:17:45 PM
I would say a dollar a pound is EXTREAMLY fair, they are 2.99 a pound here.
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| Ms.Lilly |
Posted - Aug 28 2010 : 5:58:28 PM
First time in years I have to buy tomatos, darn late summer! I was at a produce stand today and they were going for 1.00 a lb, but I am on a farmers list (if he has any that ripen this year) for .50 a lb. Check your local u-pick farms and craigs list and you will probably find them cheaper. As far as canning I canned 45 pints of corn yesterday and 16 pints of green beans today. I have a lug of peaches that will probably need to be done on Monday or Tuesday.
Lillian |
| emsmommy5 |
Posted - Aug 28 2010 : 5:42:04 PM
Personally- I think $1 a pound is too much. Of course, that might be the going rate around your part of the country! The Yakima tomatoes are coming on really late this year and our local fruit "guy" won't have any even available for at least another week or two. The prices should start falling around then. The cheapest I saw them today in the store was .98 a pound. Not willing to pay that much!
Do what you love, love what you do. |
| karla |
Posted - Aug 28 2010 : 12:58:54 PM
I usually freeze my peppers. But I am thinking dehydrated would work also. Takes up less space when you dehydrate them.
Philippians 4:13 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
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