What are you canning now?

[vfem]

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I just bought 20 of the 1 1/4 oz jars from SKS for my christmas give away- I want to do jalapeno jelly to go in them

Are you going to waterbath them to seal?

 

[Kim_NC]

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Yes, the lug caps will seal in a WB canner (or pressure canner too). Only issue is you don't have the 'popper', but the lid tops do concave slightly when properly sealed. Did that site have a larger selection of them? The ones on the linked page are only 1 1/4 oz.....that's the tiny cute size typically used by hotel room services and up scale restaurants.

Check out Fillmore Container.

They have quilted 4 oz jelly jars for $6.55/cs, with lids - or less if you get a pallet.
http://fillmorecontainer.com/Jars/4-oz-Quilted-Crystal-Jar.htm

And a selection of other style jars in 4 oz(plus many, many more) here:
http://fillmorecontainer.com/Jars/ - read carefully, not all will take a standard canning small mouth lid. Some come with lids, for others you order lids separately. They do show you a selection of possible lids for each jar on the product detail page. The standard small mouth lid is a "G70 CT".

ETA: The site will also tell you what's the optimum # of cases to order for best shipping rates on UPS.

 

[GPN]

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I just bought 20 of the 1 1/4 oz jars from SKS for my christmas give away- I want to do jalapeno jelly to go in them

Are you going to waterbath them to seal?

I did not water bath last year for my apple jelly just heated the seal and rings in boiling water, and thats what I had planned on doing again, I have only made jelly for my first time last july 2009 so I am a newbie

 

[HenThymes]

Well results are in on my canned goods that I took to our local fair. Everything was judged this morning before the fair opened:

My White Pickles took a 1st place

Concord Grape took 1st

Clover Jelly took 2nd

Peach preserves, peach jam and relish took 3rd's

I entered a "gump" style loaf of bread and that took a 1st and I also entered eggs

and they took a 3rd.

Not too bad if I say so my self for my first time!

Already thinking of ideas for next year.

 

[TipsyDog]

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Awesome! Congrats! I think I will enter some of my canning next year. I WANT A RIBBON TOO!

 

[Kim_NC]

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Holy Smoke....you did great! Congrats!

 

[ChikeeMomma]

Anybody ever make corn cob jelly before? Sounds interesting .......... http://chickensintheroad.com/cooking/.

 

[Frogdogtimestwo]

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Yes many times! It is a very light apple honeyish flavor. Great gifts.

 

[Terri O]

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I have used "one trip jars" such as that again for canning and they sealed fine. I used some salsa jars for my HM salsa one year and was amazed that you could use them over! My grandma told me I could so I tried it. We eat the salsa so fast anyhow so I figured that even if it didnt seal we could eat it all up before it was wasted. I was pleasantly surprised! Good luck! Terri O (PS) great score on the pears!

 

[Terri O]

Good job HenThymes! I love entering stuff in our fair too. I used to enter the State Fair when I was closer to it...that wait was terrible. Everyone sat there watching the judges tasting and rearranging...I met some great people who's jars or bread didnt place...then we would sit in the audience and eat bread and jam! It was so fun! I imagine those people are probably gone now--

they were old then and that was 25 years ago!
I agree with you...if you have the competitive spirit enter your stuff! They are always begging for open class entries at our fair...competition is GOOD! Terri O