What are you canning now?

[MistyMountain]

It really did seem like a lot. I just checked Ball's recipe page, and it is the same. I should clarify that the 3 cups prepared started out as 6 cups before I crushed them.

 

[rancher hicks]

It really did seem like a lot. I just checked Ball's recipe page, and it is the same. I should clarify that the 3 cups prepared started out as 6 cups before I crushed them.

Your recipe should call for "whole", "sliced" or "crushed".

I had one that called for a lot of sugar, made it but won't again since it just isn't worth the sugar amount.

As you can see from the recipes I posted there are better recipes out there. Lord knows we could all use less sugar in our diets.

The book I recommend most is 250 Home Preserving favorites. Yvonne Tremblay. Lots of great uncommon recipes.

Check your local library.

 

[speckledhen]

@speckledhen
I canned a bunch of pickles last year and thought we'd never use them all. We did. They've been gone for months now, and I've had to buy some ( which are not as good.) So, this year I planted more cucumbers. The vines are thick and flowering but no cucumbers ...yet.
Your pantry of pickles looks...pretty and plentiful!
( Pretty pantry of plentiful pickles- say 10 times quickly)

 

[N F C]

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, sweet dill, slices, chunks, spears, stackers, whole cukes, etc. Can one stay alive on pickles? I sure hope so cuz pickles, we got!

You are the pickle goddess.

 

[speckledhen]

You are the pickle goddess.

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.

 

[KentuckyMom]

@MistyMountain
Mmmm...raspberry pie. I made one a few years ago and one of my sons liked it so much that he requests a raspberry pie every year for his birthday now.
Freezer jam is more "fruity" tasting I think. It is less time consuming too since you don't have to cook the fruit down. It is pretty much- crush the berries, mix in the pectin and sugar, and freeze. Ball makes a jar of pectin specifically for freezer jam too. I usually can my jam because I usually end up using my freezer for other things. Also, I was given a large abundance of jars by my husband's grandmother, mother, and my dad, so, I fill them up!

 

[MarcoPollo]

speckledhen - you must have had a cucumber harvest like we had. After 200 cucumbers, I quit counting! LOL

 

[speckledhen]

speckledhen - you must have had a cucumber harvest like we had. After 200 cucumbers, I quit counting! LOL

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 started turning yet (those plants are loaded and falling over, too, so we'll be sick of canning season in the near future!).

I think people need to start growing food on whatever dirt they own and learn to preserve it (and hide it, too). Bad times are ahead, something tells me. Something wicked this way comes, as it were. Young people are not listening, not even my own sons, but they need to get into the old ways of putting away essentials, especially food. No amount of cash will talk when the grocery shelves are empty.


ETA: Oooh, black market! I'll sell you a jar of pickles for $500, hehehe.

 

[Raech]

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 started turning yet (those plants are loaded and falling over, too, so we'll be sick of canning season in the near future!).

I think people need to start growing food on whatever dirt they own and learn to preserve it (and hide it, too). Bad times are ahead, something tells me. Something wicked this way comes, as it were. Young people are not listening, not even my own sons, but they need to get into the old ways of putting away essentials, especially food. No amount of cash will talk when the grocery shelves are empty.


ETA: Oooh, black market! I'll sell you a jar of pickles for $500, hehehe.

If thats the case, I have green gold in my closet. I did pickles (spears, slices, BnB of both) 2 years ago, relishs last year and still have a ton!!! I refuse to plant cucs until they are almost gone. Anyone wants some Im up for selling. For crispy pickles put a whole grape leaf in the bottom, not sure how it works but it does.

 

[N F C]

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 started turning yet (those plants are loaded and falling over, too, so we'll be sick of canning season in the near future!).

I think people need to start growing food on whatever dirt they own and learn to preserve it (and hide it, too). Bad times are ahead, something tells me. Something wicked this way comes, as it were. Young people are not listening, not even my own sons, but they need to get into the old ways of putting away essentials, especially food. No amount of cash will talk when the grocery shelves are empty.


ETA: Oooh, black market! I'll sell you a jar of pickles for $500, hehehe.

I agree Cyn...even if a person can only grow a few plants and put by a little at a time, it's a good idea. My grandpa used to say, "It's hard to starve a farmer", (and that doesn't mean you have to have 40 acres and a mule either).