Put up 2 batches of strawberry jam, picked wild blackberries for jam but they're in the freezer until I have time to get to them, have mayhaw juice ready to be made into jelly, and waiting on wild plums to ripen, tomatoes & cucumbers! Not quite up to full gear yet but getting there.
Put up one batch of plum jelly with the wild native plums we have growing in the back pasture & have juice in the freezer to do another batch later on. 16 pints of kosher dill pickles. Have 2 giant bags of tomatoes in the freezer I gathered during the week since I didn't want to fool with them...
Took yesterday afternoon off from work & made it productive! Canned 5 quarts & 5 pints of dill pickles; blanched & vac-packed more snap beans for the freezer - have 18 quarts of those now - 1 quart of chopped bell peppers, & 5 quarts of yellow squash - I just slice up & vac-pack & freeze the...
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Enjoy it! I absolutely adore it!
I find I like it best when its been soaking over night.
So glad you said that, that's exactly what I did! picked them yesterday evening after work & have had them soaking overnight. Just picked up lids for my jelly jars so in another couple of hours...
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Enjoy it! I absolutely adore it!
I find I like it best when its been soaking over night.
So glad you said that, that's exactly what I did! picked them yesterday evening after work & have had them soaking overnight. Just picked up lids for my jelly jars so in another couple of hours...
Put up six jars of 1/2 pints of blueberry jam today; gift from our fabulous, awesome rural route lady ( she always brings my shipped eggs here first! before doing the rest of her route! thanks in part to her, I have some of the breeds I always dreamed about). She will definetly have a couple...
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Patchesnposies--
Can you please post your recipe for honey pickled figs? Ours aren't ripe yet, another week or two. I always do the fig/strawberry jam too, never heard of honey pickled figs though--sounds good!
lol LOVE the dancing pickles! I think we all do a "pickle dance" when...
Put up 5 pints & 1 quart of dill pickles -- that's the last of this season - I did add the grape leaves in the jars to see if that will make them extra crispy -- will let ya'll know.
Next on the agenda is tomatoes--lots & lots & lots of tomatoes -- I've been freezing them whole until I got time...
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Making strawberry jam last year I found this site: http://www.pickyourown.org/jam.htm
Every batch I made came out perfect! I even made a triple berry jam that we gave away as our wedding favors.
BTW, that apple butter looks heavenly! That will definitely be a autumn...
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That sounds interesting! could you please post the recipe?
Miss Prissy, that is a FANTASTIC find!! Way to go!!!
edit to add: doing dill pickles this weekend! If anybody is looking for a prolific pickler, I highly recommend Eurekas!
SUCCESS!!! this 3 day weekend I successfully reproduced my late Aunt Sue's recipe for Old South Lime pickles, using the Mrs. Wage's lime and pickling spice. It was very labor intensive but well worth it -- have 7 quarts of beautiful pickles! I know Aunt Sue was with me in spirit, looking over my...
marytoast, could you please post your chow-chow recipe?
Here's my salsa recipe--I've been 'tweaking' it so included my notes.
it's spicy medium hot but not real burn-your -tongue hot.
Terris Salsa Recipe
For Canning 2008
7/8/2008
5-6 lbs chopped fresh tomatoes (this is about 15 large or...
Muscadine jelly is my hands-down fav!
I'm glad you found out the answer--I've been wondering about it off & on all morning (slow, rainy day at work) lol what would we do without Mom!
thanks for the recipe Farmer Kitty; I have to try that one also!
"How do you process your grapes for jelly?
I cooked mine like I do blue & blackberries. Now I read that you aren't supposed to let grapes boil? Why?"
Really? I always just followed the directions inside the sure-jell box.
I'm at work right now so don't have the exact directions right in...
Farmer Kitty--your blueberry/rhubard jam is the most awesome color! would you be willing to share your recipe?
So far I've put up many many tomatoes, salsa, plum jam, mock strawberry-fig jam & blackberry jam. and pickles.
Waiting on muscadines & grapes to get ripe to put up jelly.
Some...