What are you canning now?

[rancher hicks]

About rose hips, I wanted to make jam because the shrub roses I have in the run have huge hips, but unlike the wild ones, they don't stay on the plant for the winter. So I took some and made jam! It tastes pleasant, not a strong taste at all. BUT rose hips are a huge source of natural vitamin C, so if I have some on toast every couple of days in this season....all to the good. The small ones are more usual, and people who use them don't collect them until after the first frost as the frost makes them a bit sweeter. You don't have to make them into jam, you can just pick them ant dry them and use them in tea. In colonial times rose hips were used to decorate...
A really nice thing about them is you dont have to rush to get to them at this busy season.

Funny when you said "season" I wasn't thinking "Fall" but "Harvest" . Since it's really "harvest" time and that's why I'm so busy. Trying to put up food for the winter.

Lazy Willie - Bobby Gentry

Get up lazy Willie, theres work to be done Out of seventeen kids, you're the laziest one Pigs in the kitchen and the roosters in the pig stye Weeds in the garden busy growin up knee high Lazy Willie, look at you, ain't you a sight Tuh tuh twee tuh twee dee twee, tuh tuh twee Lazy Willie, sleep all day and play all night Umm hmm, umm Get up lazy Willie, up and outta that bed There's cows to be milked and mule's to be fed Thin the corn, harvest the soybeans And help me set the table for our company from New Orleans Lazy Willie, wake up you ain't heard a word I said Tuh tuh twee tuh twee dee twee, tuh tuh twee Lazy Willie, you gotta get up in time to go to bed Umm hmm, umm Don't you remember lazy Willie, what moma would say That all summer long the grasshopper would play The ant would work hard stowing up his winter supply And when the snow came the ant lived, the grasshopper died Lazy Willie, well ants work hard and grasshoppers play Tuh tuh twee di twee di dee, tuh tuh twee Oh Lazy Willie, you're gonna sprout green legs and hop away Gonna ha-hop away

 

[hippiestink]

Making and freezing cream of chicken and cream of mushroom soup for fall and winter casseroles. Not canning this week, there's very little left to can! Though when I get my hands on some cranberries, cranberry sauce will officially be the last canning round of the season.

 

[3goodeggs]

I buy the bags and just throw them in the freezer. It is so easy just to make it when I need it, but I love fresh cranberry sauce.

 

[N F C]

I buy the bags and just throw them in the freezer. It is so easy just to make it when I need it, but I love fresh cranberry sauce.

Me too! We like to use it on sandwiches sometimes (like turkey or chicken sandwiches).

 

[Peep_Show]

Finally processed the last of the peppers into jelly. Odd, though, as it turned out a darker green and kind of seaweed color.

 

[3goodeggs]

Mine always looks like that. People some times add green food coloring to keep it brighter, but I have no problems with it looking loden.

 

[Beekissed]

A total of 37 qts of chicken from 10 roosters, packed tight, and three qts. of squirrel. I added some fat and organs to the jars of squirrel to give them some more fats in the broth. Should all be excellent eating...clean, young, flavorful meat.

After this evening's canning, that will leave us 67 qts of various meats, mostly chicken. Deer, chicken, rabbit and squirrel.

For this season I've canned over 200 qts. and 64 pts. of food here. A mere fraction of what we used to can up each year as I was growing up, but we had a lot of mouths to feed back then. Now it's just Mom and I, with family and company to feed now and again.

 

[KentuckyMom]

@Beekissed Amazing! You inspire all of us who can to can even more. Our neighbor gave us a deer recently; I ground it up and froze every last bit that I could, but, after reading all of your postings, I may try canning the next one.

 

[Beekissed]

I tried canning up ground deer meat this year and it's really neat! You can get more in the jar and, for some reason, it has way more flavor in the meat than if we had frozen it, thawed it and browned it in a skillet. Even my sons, who don't notice much, made a comment on it and how good it was. It's much more moist than the browned meat and it just has a deeper flavor...most excellent! You should try it!

I don't take much credit for getting all that canning done...by the grace of God only did I have the resources, the time, the strength, the know how and the food available for all of that. I just stood there and received the blessings without measure!

That's an easy job!

 

[appps]

If you were going to start canning again but having to buy everything from scratch, knowing what you do now, how would you go about it? Automatic canner machine? Big boilers? How would you most economically buy your bottles? And what time saving tips have you learnt?

Is there anything you wouldn't spend your money on?