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  1. CrazyCatNChickenLady

    What are you canning now?

    I ended up using the regular sure jell pectin and made 3(plus a little extra) pints strawberry freezer jam. It looks good, and tastes great, but I ended up with a bunch of tiny air bubbles in the jam which makes it look like a frothy pinkish color. I used frozen strawberries, bacause I found 4...
  2. CrazyCatNChickenLady

    What are you canning now?

    I've had freezer jam. It was really good and tasted like strawberry ice cream topping (That batch was a little too sweet for me though and we didn't eat much of the quart jar. I didn't make it, my aunt gave me a jar.) Maybe I'll do a few small batches of each and see what I like better. I think...
  3. CrazyCatNChickenLady

    What are you canning now?

    Alright guys I have a question for you all. I was going to make some strawberry jam tomorrow. I seem to have a bunch of pectin in my cabinet from last year. Do you guys have a favorite? I have liquid Certo (4 pouches), Ball powdered, and sure jell 1 box natural, 1 box sugar free. I was gonna use...
  4. CrazyCatNChickenLady

    What are you canning now?

    Quote: I just stumbled across a 'triple fruit marmalade' recipe. I was looking up things to do in a pressure cooker. Last year I did a marmalade and I must have used the wrong type of pot and it tasted really molassesey. I tried to do some more mandarin marmalade last week and I just couldn't...
  5. CrazyCatNChickenLady

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    Quote: We brought back some Pecan oil from AL this past visit and pralines and a bag of pecans. DW used the praline on top of her Biscotti. Reminds me I still need to make biscotti for christmas! Also I had a really good recipe I think it was orange candied walnuts for salads. I thought...
  6. CrazyCatNChickenLady

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    Quote: Oooh! Thanks for the quick idea! I was trying to come up with something quick for tonight. It's the first of 4 "Christmases" this weekend. Moms, whole family (all cousins, aunts and uncles), home and then off to the in-laws. That recipe is from http://www.mixesinajar.com/ They...
  7. CrazyCatNChickenLady

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    Quote: I found some at safeway when I was out of town once (we dont have a safeway less then an hour away so I dont go there much.) It had no sugar and was all pomegranate juice. I dont remember the brand but It was in a glass jar. I also know that our raleys has a few different juice isles...
  8. CrazyCatNChickenLady

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    I canned a bunch of meatless spaghetti sauce. I figure you can brown some meat and add it to the sauce when you heat it up. Made 7 quarts and 4 pints (then theres the 1 1/2 quarts we already ate!) I also typed out and printed on some index cards.. And not that its canning, but it's in a...
  9. CrazyCatNChickenLady

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    Making and Canning Homemade Barbecue Sauce I tried this recipe last year. I cant fint the copy I printed out and wrote on but I remember I added more vinegar then labeled it as tangy BBQ sauce. It was amazing (but burned really really fast on the BBQ!!) I sent home 3 jars with my oldest...
  10. CrazyCatNChickenLady

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    Anyone have any orange recipes? I have 2 big bags of mandarins. Last year I made mandarin marmalade and mandarin strawberry marmalade. This year I was gonna make Honey-Orange Slices and probably more mandarin strawberry marmalade. Any other ideas?
  11. CrazyCatNChickenLady

    What are you canning now?

    Quote: Looks GREAT.... Yum, OK can I use store bought Apple Juice? If so, what kind? I never have, but I'm sure you could. The only one I cheat on is the Cherry Almond and I buy 100% unsweetend juice. Juicy Juice is the brand I use for this. I'm sure 100% unsweetend apple juice would...
  12. CrazyCatNChickenLady

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    Quote: Happy Chooks- I made that cranberry sauce with grand marinier and fully substituting the water is NOT correct!! Hopefully you didn't try that recipe yet!! I made it and did 2 bags cranberries, 2C sugar, 1C. Grand marinier, 1C. water and then I added in another 1/2-1 cup water while...
  13. CrazyCatNChickenLady

    What are you canning now?

    I made some recently too. Used cornstarch and not enough I guess.. It wasnt thick enough but I just strained it and made a pie. It was pretty good! I also strain it and use the apples for coffee cake too. Lastnight I popped a quart and just started munchin on them! Its pretty much like apples in...
  14. CrazyCatNChickenLady

    What are you canning now?

    Quote: I do orange juice as my liquid. My mom has a recipe using grand marnier that is really good too! I just cook em over medium with the juice and sugar til they pop! How much Grand marnier? Yummy, I'm going to have to try that. I'm planning on canning some. She said just substitute it...
  15. CrazyCatNChickenLady

    What are you canning now?

    Quote: I just follow the directions on the back of the bag, pour it into jars and do the water bath for ten minutes. It is naturally high in pectin, and it is nice and acidic. Easy and quick and wonderful. Sometimes I will do some with apple, or blueberries. I was thinking about trying some...
  16. CrazyCatNChickenLady

    What are you canning now?

    Today I made, from right to left .. 4 pints of pomegranate jelly, 2 pints of apple cranberry jam, and 2 pints 2 half pints apple jam with cranberry jam on top. I was trying to do a layered jelly but the apples were obviously way more dense when I started jarring which resulted in me mixing the...
  17. CrazyCatNChickenLady

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    Went to visit my grandparents this weekend. Grandma gave me half a bag of apples and mini pears. After the weekend of eyeing all the apples still on the trees I asked if they were done picking for the year. "Yes. Please take all you want!" I ended up picking another full bag and took home...
  18. CrazyCatNChickenLady

    What are you canning now?

    I'm expirimenting with juice now. Just made 2 pints of spiced(?) apple jelly. It looks and smells pretty good. I used apple juice, pectin, ground cinnamon, ground nutmeg, and sugar. We'll see how it turns out. It still has 10 mins to go in the hot water bath.
  19. CrazyCatNChickenLady

    What are you canning now?

    From what I read that wont be a good seal. The ones of mine that overflowed sealed too but I still redid them..
  20. CrazyCatNChickenLady

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    I did apple pie filling for the first time last week. I'm new at this but most of mine overflowed too, had to repack them. My syrup didn't get as thick as it should have either and I really didn't like the pie either.. probably because I used the food processor to lice the apples and i didnt...
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