Canning?

[oherin]

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[oherin]

This is what I have canned so far: pickled beets, salsa, hot peppers, hot sauce, tomatoes, green beans, corn, various jams and jellies, juice, apple everything (juice, butter, sauce, pie filling). Peaches were my big failure. They became mushy. I would rather freeze them. I also have not dared making cucumber pickles. Maybe this year.

I also dehydrate lots of fruit. Yum.

 

[Sierra pachie bars]

I cant can like I use to , its gotten to dangerous because my hands. I was actually looking on the stuff for sale for jams. I am always looking for huckleberry. Or apple butter. Canning was fun a few years before my hands got bad I did a huge batch of strawberry jam. We used to get huge flats of strawberries at the swap meet.

 

[Carols Clucks]

we have a bunch of passion fruit vine seedlings almost ready to go in the garden.

I am canning a lot of passion fruit jelly this year I think.

Last year I did passion fruit and figs (not together!) in a bunch of small jars so my mom could give them to her friends. She really enjoyed it, so I am sure I will be busy this year

 

[PhoenixAngel429]

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I made some garlic dill pickles once. Tasted great, but too salty how I made them. Pickleing is not really hard. Don't pickle hot peppers if you can't take the heat.

 

[Jenlyn9483]

Yay! A new canning thread. OK so far this year, Pickles, Stackers and chips, Dill pickle relish, Tons of Salsa, hot and Mild. Apple pie filling. Need to make more apple jelly soon as I get enuff jars. I use this like crazy when making my home made marinades for poultry or other meat. I also used some Pomegranite/ Blue berry jelly someone gave me too it was good but the apple is the best!
Last fall I made Spiced strawberry jam (from strawberries I got at local farmers market for $1 per lb!) more pickles and salsa, Pear butter, and apple pie filling.

On the subject of making pickles. It's the easiest thing I've ever canned. You dont even have to grow your own pickles do it! (I moved last fall and didnt have a fall garden so the farmer's market came in handy) You can just go to walmart or the grocery store pick up a few bags of Ms. Wages Pickling pouches, some vinegar and salt, and jars, stop by the farmers market load up on some cucumbers (I can always find them 3 or 4 for a dollar) take them home pour pickling pouch seasoning, salt, vinegar and water in a pot til boil. Wash and cut up your cucumbers put them in sterilized jars pour brine over put in canner - WALLLA! 10 minutes later fool proof best you ever ate pickles. Im on my third year of making pickles and I've never had a problem with any of them going bad. The pickles and Salsa fly out of my cabinets like nobody's business from the neighbors, the friends the family, our own consumption, take to parties, etc. PS i use the Ms. Wages Salsa seasoning packet too i just add onions, green peppers and chillis. People say "NAME YOUR PRICE I WANT A CASE". I love doing things the old fashioned way but sometimes it's easier for SEMI homemade. But I have done it both ways but sometimes the gardens dont produce the demand. For the Salsa Canned Petite diced tomatoes work lovely if you aren't cranking out the tomatoes. I usually throw in some Rotel too. So im making Salsa even in the dead of winter.

 

[Chick named Lola]

I've never used regular cukes for pickles, they say that they get soft and/or mushy. I was always told to only use pickling cukes????

 

[Jenlyn9483]

I put a grape vine leaf on the bottom of my jar before I fill it. Keeps them crispier.

 

[mothergoose]

I love to can. I put up a lot of salsa, tomato sauce, seasoned tomato sauce, ketchup, tomato jam, tomato soup,green tomato mincemeat, apple butter, strawberry jam, pear jam, vanilla spiced pear butter, sliced pears,pear mincemeat, caramel pear butter, pear sauce,spicy pickled eggs, sweet pepper relish and hot pepper mustard (my favorite thing!) Looking forward to what our gardens produce this year!