What are you canning now?

[3goodeggs]

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I must stop coming here! You all are just making me try more stuff!
I HAVE to do this now!

I have to grow zucchini! That means...even though after this year I SWORE that I would NEVER garden again...I now have to. I am getting worn out! But that is why we have winter, so we can rest and eat our canned food.

Thank you for the link to your blog. It will make it so much easier for me.

 

[vfem]

I did a jar count last night, and figured out what I had in stock in town. I only have 142 8oz jars left, 3 12 oz jars, 1 pint jar and 32 4oz jars for gift baskets. I am about 200 short on where I wanted to be stocked for Christmas.

I'm kinda bummed... and I'm so tired.

Though I know I've sold over 250 jars this summer already...so at least their are reason. (This doesn't count what I just gave away either.)

Anyways, I am still on break until tomorrow though... as tomorrow I am taking my 8 jars of jam, 1 jar of salsa and 1 dz of my orange cranberry biscotti to the state fair for competition!!!! Woooohooooooooooo I am sooooooooooooo excited!!!

Fingers crossed....wish me luck!!!!!!!!!

 

[hvl25]

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sounds fun! GOOD LUCK:yiipchick

 

[jade_softtail]

I did jams last year and loved it. I haven't been around anyone canning in years...use to help my mom but then she stopped doing it. We use to can lots of things and it was great to be able to open up something from the garden in the middle of winter. I'm hoping now that we have a better tiller (our pig) we will have a bigger garden so I can start canning again. Yes it's lots of work but it's so nice to have it for later. I was hoping that a friend of the hubs would tell us to come and get all the pears and apples we wanted but he told him that the trees didn't do so well this year, I guess it was to dry. Well good luck to yall and happy canning!

 

[catdaddy66]

Just got a bunch of pears from a friend so these will be canned, as I like pears best that way. Weird, cause I love most fruit fresh! I also have a lot of jalepenos and cayennes to can this weekend.

 

[65browneyes]

I am looking for a recipe for Pepper Jelly/Jam. I just know it was here yesterday when I went through this thread (why I didn't cut/paste/copy/save is beyond me).

I have a Sweet Banana Pepper plant that is fully loaded with the last of this season's peppers that I was hoping to use for jelly (since the last of the tomatoes aren't yet ready to be sauced). I DO have a couple large red bell peppers I can add in, and probably about 2 dozen 4 - 6 inch banana peppers. Because I'm not looking for a 'hot' jam result, I should be able to easily substitute these for jalepenos, don't you think?

Also, I remember reading that liquid pectin is used rather than powdered pectin for this jelly/jam. Why is this? I also understand that the two are not interchangable, though I am not sure why. I haven't canned much, and if it weren't for my dear friend, Rita, I wouldn't have braved venturing into spaghetti sauce and pickled peppers this year at all.

Signed, the canning newbie just looking to pick up a few tips from the pros.......

Thanks in advance.

 

[chicken stalker]

Here's mine.

Apple-Jalapeno Jam

4 cups of pealed, cored, and diced apples
1 cup of seeded, chopped jalapenos
1 cup apple cider vinegar
1 box of dry pectin (I actually used less than a whole box, because my apples seem to have a lot of natural pectin)
5 cups of sugar

1. Cook apples, jalapenos, vinegar until soft.
For smoother jam (otherwise skip this step): place in blender puree and return to pot
2. Stir in pectin, boil for a min (that can't be stirred down)
3. Add all the sugar at once
4. boil for a min (that can't be stirred down)
5. skim foam and ladle in jars
6. Water bath process 10 min

Makes 6 half pints
Serve with cream cheese and crackers, bagels etc...

 

[LovinMyPeeps]

Ooooh that looks good Karen! Today I made more wine jellies. One I call "Bully Goat Jelly", made with Bully Hills Love My Goat and one I call "Here Kitty Kitty" made with Hazlitts Red Cat Wine. I need to make more pepper jelly tomorrow. I have another order

LOL... cant seem to stop this year!

 

[KDbeads]

After the yard sale today I fixed my 'bad' batch of sriracha. I had dumped them all back into the soaking/marinating container and added a bunch more vinegar and let sit for a couple of days. Today I left it on the stove on low all day. Consistency was much better and hubby approved enough to where I had to take his spoon away so I could get it canned. Made 13 12 oz jars plus what he ate and another half a jar full.

 

[vfem]

Oh man... I dropped my jams and salsa and biscotti off at the fair. I really believe my biscotti has a chance, but when I found out there are going to be over 3000 canned entries.... I know I don't have a shot. Truly... I wouldn't know what would separate a winner from loser in any of those catergories? I know Hen Thyme has done a jam competition.... have any of you? I probably should have asked for advice previously to making my entries rather then after I took them in.

But I have the recipe competition on the 18th so I'm not too worries... I can always use any advice for that.