Preserving Your Harvest

[Smokerbill]

I use my pressure canner all year. That is a great deal you got. I like wide mouth jars for canning chicken. The turkey fryer burner is idea is great! I'm getting close for salsa, but our peppers need to step up first. I freeze my tomatoes for salsa and sauce, so I have time.

Does freezing the tomatoes affect the texture much? I've never canned meat/poultry/fish before. Guess I should give it a try.

 

[CatInTheHenHouse]

Currently have (store bought) nectarines in the dehydrator for later tea experimentation.

 

[Justagalwithchicks]

Does freezing the tomatoes affect the texture much? I've never canned meat/poultry/fish before. Guess I should give it a try.

It separates the water out of the tomato so you don't have to cook it down as much for sauce etc. I don't do it for stewed tomatoes since I want the liquid with the tomato. Raw packing meat is the easiest canning. It doesn't look pretty, but it is shelf stable and easy to use.

 

[Justagalwithchicks]

Made sweet pickles today and a loaf of sourdough. Don't judge my sourdough, I broke my arm in two places last year and my starter died. I'm just getting back into the swing of things, so she isn't the prettiest, but by golly very yummy!

 

[WingItRanch]

Made sweet pickles today and a loaf of sourdough. Don't judge my sourdough, I broke my arm in two places last year and my starter died. I'm just getting back into the swing of things, so she isn't the prettiest, but by golly very yummy! View attachment 4209710View attachment 4209711

Way better than I could do with 2 healthy arms! Looks awesome.

 

[Smokerbill]

Made sweet pickles today and a loaf of sourdough. Don't judge my sourdough, I broke my arm in two places last year and my starter died. I'm just getting back into the swing of things, so she isn't the prettiest, but by golly very yummy! View attachment 4209710View attachment 4209711

Those pickles look great! Did you use some sort of bread and butter pickle recipe? That's the next type of pickle I'm going to be putting up. And that bread looks better than any loaf I've ever made. Nice.

I can relate to losing use of an arm. I injured my shoulder a couple months ago and it's still hurting so much I can barely use it. MRI coming up on Wednesday.

 

[Sally PB]

Don't judge my sourdough,

Looks good to me!

 

[tripletfeb]

Today I made and canned five pints of salsa. And talked my sister through making her own and canning it. Then was informed by my nephew that their salsa was better than mine

 

[Justagalwithchicks]

Those pickles look great! Did you use some sort of bread and butter pickle recipe? That's the next type of pickle I'm going to be putting up. And that bread looks better than any loaf I've ever made. Nice.

I can relate to losing use of an arm. I injured my shoulder a couple months ago and it's still hurting so much I can barely use it. MRI coming up on Wednesday.

It is a bread and butter pickle recipe. Super easy I know it off top of my head. Slice cucs and put 1/2 cup salt on them let them sit three hours and rinse. Then warm up hot but not boiling 3 cups water, 3 cups ACV, 3 cups sugar add the 6 quarts sliced cucs, 2 onions , 1 Tbsp each tumeric, mustard seed and celery seed. 1/4" head space process 10 minutes but I do mine a little less time.