What are you canning now?

[TifsBroodyBabes]

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Lowes Home Improvement.
They had regular and large lids here for .97cents I won't need to buy any for a couple seasons now.

 

[shortstaque]

Just made some kickin' ketchup. Doubled the cayenne for some extra punch.

Saw folks have been making pepper jelly. It is sooo good. Last year I didn't make any and DMIL and a bunch of friends complained. I had no choice but to make it again this year. I didn't have as many jalapenos this year so I made it with red hungarian wax peppers. Its tasty, and a beautiful color.

I'll have to check out Lowe's for the discounted jars/lids. Thanks for the tip.

 

[Dragonfly Ranch]

Got home last night at 6:00pm and started in on some of the tomatoes that decided to get ripe in our garden. Managed to get 5 quarts and one pint out of what I had. It has been raining here off and on for two weeks so most will probably have split skins. We had 10" of rain last weekend and I guess it took care of most of them.

I have decided if I get anymore tomatoes I just going to dry them.

I still need to deal with some peppers all varieties that are waiting their turn. Think I dry some that I then use on pizza through the winter and freeze some as well.

Sandee

 

[1mommahen]

Thanks to whomever posted about the Lowe's sale on canning supplies! I scored big this morning! All this for $16.56

 

[Kim_NC]

I'm going to Lowe's and have a look! That's a really nice haul for $16.56.

This week I got berries out of the freezer and canned jelly size jars for farmers market sales:

16 jars Four Berry Jam
10 jars Strawberry Jam
8 jars Blackberry Jam
14 jars Blueberry Jam
7 jars Raspberry Jam

I still have strawberries and blackberries in the freezer, plenty enough to make more jams - and a few blueberries for winter muffins and desserts.

I STILL have pears from our 3 old farm trees...down to 1 late tree now. Ended up with 12 jars of Pear Butter this week too.

Today I cleaned up enough pears to make 3 more batches of Pear Preserves, but stuck them in the freezer. DH & I gathered 2 more fruit baskets full this evening, plus a box of damaged ones for the hogs! The ones we gathered can ripen a few more days. I'll be working on them later in the week....probably as canned pears.

Getting a little tired of pears around here. LOL, but waste not, want not.

 

[Kim_NC]

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They work fine, can't tell any difference. Just thaw them well before smashing. I also keep the juice (from thawing) and measure it as part of the fruit for the jam recipes.

 

[happyhappy]

Just got through with 8 jars of fig jam as the tricks er treaters where beating down my door. I don't have a Lowe's in my town it's about 11/2 hrs away BUT it went shopping at Safeway yesterday and while looking for sponges discovered canning supplies up on the very top of the isle marked down not really low but I be back in a week, will see how low they will go then, not many people can that go to that store. LOL

Still have pumpkin to put up and pumpkin butter, jalapenos when the first frost hits. Yea.

 

[Patchesnposies]

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My sweet sons (11 and 13) brought me home 16 sugar pumpkins from the last Farmer's Market if the season this past Sat. and I have cooked and mashed half of them and I am ready to can them. I was planning to pressure can them for 1.5 hours (I am right at 5,000 ft).

However, it turns out that all of the Ag sites that I checked are saying not to can them mashed and I am wanting someone who has canned pumpkin that way to share their method.

Do you can your pumpkin in chunks or mashed? Would you mind sharing how you can your pumpkin and your pumpkin butter recipe?

Thanks!

 

[1mommahen]

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My sweet sons (11 and 13) brought me home 16 sugar pumpkins from the last Farmer's Market if the season this past Sat. and I have cooked and mashed half of them and I am ready to can them. I was planning to pressure can them for 1.5 hours (I am right at 5,000 ft).

However, it turns out that all of the Ag sites that I checked are saying not to can them mashed and I am wanting someone who has canned pumpkin that way to share their method.

Do you can your pumpkin in chunks or mashed? Would you mind sharing how you can your pumpkin and your pumpkin butter recipe?

Thanks!

I can mine every year. I cook it all day 24-36 hours in the crockpot with sugar and pumpkin pie spice. Then I run my hand mixer through it and water bathe it for 30 minutes. Never had a problem with it! I know other people will say don't but I have no problems.

 

[Dragonfly Ranch]

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My sweet sons (11 and 13) brought me home 16 sugar pumpkins from the last Farmer's Market if the season this past Sat. and I have cooked and mashed half of them and I am ready to can them. I was planning to pressure can them for 1.5 hours (I am right at 5,000 ft).

However, it turns out that all of the Ag sites that I checked are saying not to can them mashed and I am wanting someone who has canned pumpkin that way to share their method.

Do you can your pumpkin in chunks or mashed? Would you mind sharing how you can your pumpkin and your pumpkin butter recipe?

Thanks!

I can mine every year. I cook it all day 24-36 hours in the crockpot with sugar and pumpkin pie spice. Then I run my hand mixer through it and water bathe it for 30 minutes. Never had a problem with it! I know other people will say don't but I have no problems.

I have heard that too not to can mashed but rather in chunks. Here is a link from the National Food Preservation site that tells you how to safety freeze mashed pumpkin. I think that is the way I would go.

http://www.uga.edu/nchfp/how/freeze/pumpkin.html

Sandee