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  1. speckledhen

    What are you canning now?

    We just remove them to test the seal of the lid, then replace them, but my dad did it both ways.
  2. speckledhen

    What are you canning now?

    Sounds great! We just did 13 pints of salsa yesterday. Hope it's enough! On to other tomato goodies, I guess. Never had tomato butter, sounds good-what do you put it on?
  3. speckledhen

    What are you canning now?

    No, they are not raw packed. We did it according to a canning book we have. I have never done it so have not opened one yet to be able to tell you how firm they stay, sorry.
  4. speckledhen

    What are you canning now?

    Neither did I, but there they were, all the little teethmarks and half eaten potatoes.
  5. speckledhen

    What are you canning now?

    After the cukes and the Roma beans, did potatoes (mice ate most of the crop underground for the first time ever) and spaghetti sauce, but will do stewed tomatoes, more pasta sauce and salsa. Plus we have Contender bush beans coming up nicely so those will come later on.
  6. speckledhen

    What are you canning now?

    Final total on pickles, 53 jars, though they turned out so good, we've already consumed a couple, lol. There is one jar of spiced vinegar we just canned and left with the pickles. On the bottom left, the Roma beans and two jars of stewed tomatoes from about 3 years ago. My only producing...
  7. speckledhen

    What are you canning now?

    Interesting how some veggies did super well and others that usually do, didn't. I'm starting to pick the big sandwich tomatoes now. The Rio Grande salsa tomatoes are still not ripe but should be any day now. I have cantaloupe! Never been able to grow it and have only one plant, but hey, there...
  8. speckledhen

    What are you canning now?

    Since we had to go into Tennessee yesterday anyway, we took a detour to the Amish market to buy bell peppers, which didn't do well for us this year. Need those for the salsa. We got some gorgeous huge bells, some jalapenos to supplement the six on our one plant that did well and picked up some...
  9. speckledhen

    What are you canning now?

    Processed most all the remaining cucumbers into some very zesty and super good bread & butter pickles. Got 7 quarts and 1 pint. One jar actually broke in the water bath and upon examination, saw it was an old Atlas Mason jar my dad had given me something in years ago, so probably had been used...
  10. speckledhen

    What are you canning now?

    Good luck on your second harvest. Here at 2000 ft elevation, this is our one shot for tomatoes. We already have some leaves turning red on a few of the trees, if you can believe it. It's crazy. Hot and humid this week but at least, for now, the rain has stopped. Maybe the Rio Grande tomatoes...
  11. speckledhen

    What are you canning now?

    Thanks for the tip. I know you cut off the blossom ends because they contain enzymes that can make cucumbers too soft. Absolutely.
  12. speckledhen

    What are you canning now?

    I didn't count the actual numbers, but I just brought in 3 Godzilla cucumbers that are really too large to be optimal for canning. My chickens are getting the benefit of those, but even they are saying ENOUGH, lol. They are still coming and we're still canning since the salsa tomatoes haven't...
  13. speckledhen

    What are you canning now?

    Somebody on another thread already nominated me for Pickle Queen, LOL. They really are good, I must say, though we haven't tried the dills yet. I did get DH to admit he liked the bread & butter pickles, which he said he didn't eat.
  14. speckledhen

    What are you canning now?

  15. speckledhen

    What are you canning now?

    Tomatoes are not ripe yet, but when they are, salsa, stewed tomatoes, spaghetti sauce, etc. BUT, for now, pickles...and more pickles...and the cukes keep coming! There are 45 jars of pickles in the basement so far, some are quarts but most are pints. Bread & butter, spicy bread & butter, dill...
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