Ended Official BYC 2022 Summer Fair—Canning and Preserving Contest

[ronott1]

Winners announced here!​

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Official BYC 2022 Summer Fair
Canning & Preserving Contest
Ends on August 21st, 2022​

Could anything be more satisfying than opening up the pantry and finding a summer’s worth of canned or preserved produce? Beautiful jars of jams, jellies, fruit, or vegetables. How about a big glass jar of pickled eggs or dills? Or maybe making fruit leather or jerky is more your jam.

Let’s see your blue ribbon worthy canned or preserved foods!

The Canning & Preserving Contest is a judged photo contest.

Rules:

1. All entries must be submitted as a reply to this thread.
2. Entries must be homemade by the member posting.
3. A photograph of the ingredients plus a photograph of the finished canned or preserved product is required.
4. A member can have up to 4 entries (only one entry per post please).
5. No screenshots, watermarks, date stamps, text, etc. on the picture.
6. ALL pictures MUST be uploaded to BYC and not hosted on other image sites, personal websites, etc.
7. This is a judged photo contest and the winners will be determined by a panel of judges.
8. Prizes are limited to one per person per contest.
9. All BYC rules apply - Terms of Service (Rules)
10. Entries will be accepted until August 21st, 2022 at 11:59 PM Pacific Time.

Prizes​

Place	Prize
First Place	$50 BYC Store Gift Certificate or a 1-year PFM ($60 value) for yourself or a friend.
Second Place	$30 BYC Store Gift Certificate or a 6-month PFM ($35 value) for yourself or a friend.
Third Place	$15 BYC Store Gift Certificate or a 3-month PFM ($20 value) for yourself or a friend.

BYC Store Gift Certificates are available to winners that reside in the United States. If the winners are outside of the United States they will be awarded the PFM instead.

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[SueT]

Honey-Mulberry Jam
recipe:
On a nice day in June or July, hike down the trail by the creek to the mulberry tree with a container to hold the berries.

Pick as many ripe mulberries as you can reach.

Do NOT wear your nice clothes or hat. If you are making jam it helps to bring a friend to help you pick enough.
These are the ingredients. Honey, lemon, berries, and liquid pectin.

You’ll actually need this many berries, about 6 cups, washed thoroughly:

I put them in a food processor for a few seconds, then add
3 C honey
Juice of 1 lemon
Cook in your heavy pan until the mixture reaches 220º. This will take maybe 45 min, depending on the liquid in the berries. Remove from heat, stir in a whole packet of liquid pectin, and spoon into your sterilized jars, following standard procedure.
Process in hot water bath for 10 min.
That’s all! Store some, and enjoy some!

 

[Rise722]

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

My husband and I made dill pickles today with garlic, and fresh dill and cucumbers from the garden.

 

[tripletfeb]

Entry #2 Green beans. My favorite veggie, love them raw, steamed, canned, casseroled, just plain love them! One of the best parts of canning is hearing the "pop" telling you that you did it right! And I had a cute surprise while I was picking. Not one but two bunny nests in the garden!

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

We have a 10' x 10' sweet corn patch that we cram with as much corn as we can.
We have had some corn on the cob for 2 suppers and I processed the rest for the freezer.
My corn last month, it got another foot taller and tasseled out:

Picked and shucked corn, and put it in the boiling water in the stockpot for 5 minutes, had to repeat this 5 times today:

I cut the corn off the cob and put 2 1/2 cups of fresh corn into freezer bags to freeze, I got 17 baggies this year:

I'm very thankful for the harvest. We pulled the corn stalks, husks and I saved the cobs to feed to my pigs, so nothing is wasted.

 

[ronott1]

Now, for the moment you've all been waiting for! The judges have finished judging and we have our winners!
@tripletfeb, @Swiss, @Nbullinger, & @Tookie​

First Place - @tripletfeb

Entry #1 Strawberry rhubarb jam

Second Place - @Swiss

Entry 1:
Canned peaches:

Third Place - @Nbullinger

Entry #2! I made a bunch of hot sauce from the peppers we grew this summer and am preserving the leftovers for future use

Fourth Place - @Tookie

Entry #2, wild prickly pear jelly.

@tripletfeb, @Swiss, @Nbullinger, & @Tookie, I will be sending you instructions on how to claim your prizes momentarily!

A HUGE THANK YOU to all who participated, this wouldn't have been possible without all of your entries!!!!

Great job everyone, this was so much fun!!

~ Shout out to all of the judges that took the time to judge all of the contests. I know they were incredibly difficult to judge and I appreciate all of you! ~

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[3KillerBs]

Canning peaches madly since about 10 this morning.

Will have photos of the results tomorrow.

 

[Shizuka]

I don't think this counts as an entry since I'm only preserving it overnight (it's dinner tomorrow), but I wanted to show off my very first basil tomato sauce. Made with tomatoes and herbs from my garden.

 

[Shizuka]

Now for a real preservation entry:
Beef jerky!

This is just the first batch since my dehydrator couldn't handle all of the beef in one go.