What are you canning now?

[3goodeggs]

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Yes, as in the little white and or red flowered weed that grows in your yard.

Tastes allot like honey and is soo pretty in a jar!

You use the flower heads and steep it into tea. Vfem may have the recipe posted somewhere in this thread I believe?? She does an awesome honey suckle and rose jelly too!

You're right, I do the clover too! LOL

Quite simple actually, I only use the flower (the greens are bitter) and I get about 2 cups of the heads and seep them like tea in hot water over night. (About 4 cups of water cover them well). Then after you have gotta the flowers out of the 'tea'. Use 2 cups of the flower tea, 1 Tbsp lemon juice, and 1 packet of liquid pectin and bring to a boil. Then add 4 cups of sugar, another boil for 1 minute and ladle into sterilized jars. Lid and water bath for 10 minutes.This works with ANY flower you want to make into jelly... rose petals (minus the bitter white part of the petal), violets, dandelions, honeysuckle, lavender, ect.

And today I'm doing the lavender!

here it is! I plan on planting clover seed for next year. I missed the clover some how. rabbits? I don't know it just never showed up. But I do plan on making the rose petal. roses I've got!

 

[HenThymes]

Have enough white clover to make my first batch of the season.

Going to be steeping tomorrow and making it on Friday. AND... saw my first red clover flower today, there a comin!!!!

 

[vfem]

Hooray for the clover!

I bet before this thread, no one got excited about clover?!

 

[KDbeads]

So what am I doing wrong????
I decided to try rose jelly. Got a big heap of very fragrant petals and steeped (2 cups petals, 2 cups boiling water poured over and left to steep/cool off)...................

I just taste tested the steep just to see and ... nothing. Has no flavor whatsoever!

 

[HenThymes]

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Not sure what you may have done wrong but this is what I do when I steep:
I put my flower (regardless of what type) in a cheese cloth and tie it closed. Bring your pot of water to almost boil but not a full boil, turn it off and put in the cheesecloth bag. Put a lid on, let it cool completely never removing the lid. I then place it in the refrigerator overnight and make the jelly the next day. I find for me anyway that it gives really good floral tea flavor.

Forgot to mention I used a full to the top 2 cup glass measuring cup "packed" with flowers. I also use between 3-4 cups of water as you do loose some to the flowers regardless of how much to try to get back out when you wring it.

 

[alabama49]

Does anyone have the refrigerator strawberry jam recipe handy? I got that recipe off BYC last year and made it--it was wonderful. Now I have more strawberrys and can't find my recipe. Help!!! I don't remember who posted it either.

 

[oberhaslikid]

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The freezer jam recipe should be in the paper inside the sure gel package.
I use 2 quarts of berries and 4 cups of sugar stir together in a bow untill sugar is disolved and add the sure gel to 1/2 cup of hot water and stir untill dissolved and then add to the strawberry mixture and stir for a few minutes then. jar up and let set on counter for 24hours then freeze.

 

[vfem]

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Not sure what you may have done wrong but this is what I do when I steep:
I put my flower (regardless of what type) in a cheese cloth and tie it closed. Bring your pot of water to almost boil but not a full boil, turn it off and put in the cheesecloth bag. Put a lid on, let it cool completely never removing the lid. I then place it in the refrigerator overnight and make the jelly the next day. I find for me anyway that it gives really good floral tea flavor.

Forgot to mention I used a full to the top 2 cup glass measuring cup "packed" with flowers. I also use between 3-4 cups of water as you do loose some to the flowers regardless of how much to try to get back out when you wring it.

Hmmm? How fragrant are the roses themselves?

I did this the first time with some pink roses I got... and didn't taste like anything. Turned out the flowers didn't smell like anything either! LOL

My red roses are heavenly.... so I do 2 cups of those. The lighter the sent on a flower however, the MORE I use. Like 2 cups works great for fragrant varieties, weaker scented ones I got 2 1/2 cups to 3 cups of needed flowers.

I also seep in little muslin cotton bags I make for jelly. Same as HT with the cheese cloth. I also let sit overnight to 24 hours. Clover I always seep over night... roses 24 hours.

 

[KDbeads]

They were fairly fragrant but I'm thinking I may not have had enough. It was a not 2 cups packed so that may have been the issue!

 

[alabama49]

Thanks Ober-but the recipe I got from here was for the refrigerator-you don't freeze it--it keeps in the frig for a long time. IT was really good. I just wish I could remember who posted it at least!! Oh well, maybe someone else will see this..