What are you canning now?

[chicken stalker]

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yes but all the recipes I found are for freezer jam

I am going to use some for 3 gallons of Peach Elderberry Wine mmmmmm!

 

[Jen4]

I'm finally done with the pear butter... I didnt realize it would take sooo long. I just posted a new blog post All About Cherries

 

[CranberryCreekFarm]

Maine wild blueberry jam

Mint jelly

 

[Momagain1]

7 quarts of diced potatoes...

and about 25 lbs of diced and cubed (lg cubes) of blanched to make mashed taters later on...
FOODSAVER'd it... love that thing!

 

[swheat]

Letting the canner cool off now, so i am done, Canned 6 more quarts and 1 pint of tomatoes.

Steve

 

[3goodeggs]

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yes but all the recipes I found are for freezer jam

I am going to use some for 3 gallons of Peach Elderberry Wine mmmmmm!

awww. elderberries!
When I was a kid those plants were EVERYWHERE! now that I am canning jellies and making wine there are none to be seen.
I am really considering planting some 'ditch weeds", as they were called, in my orchard.
what was that move called? ...'something' and old lace', when the sweet little old ladies made elderberry wine in the basement...where they stuffed the bodies of salesmen?
I have neither a basement or elderberries!

and thanks to the German shepherd, no salesmen.

 

[3goodeggs]

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your mint jelly is lovely.
I am gearing up for wild grape, and pepper, as long as I am sterilizing jars...
I think I will do mint.
Do you use a fruit juice as a base or just mint puree,sugar and water?
Thanks

 

[CranberryCreekFarm]

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your mint jelly is lovely.
I am gearing up for wild grape, and pepper, as long as I am sterilizing jars...
I think I will do mint.
Do you use a fruit juice as a base or just mint puree,sugar and water?
Thanks

I used finely chopped chocolate mint and water. I have seen recipies where they use apple juice as the base though. I figured I would try water...I mean have you drank apple juice after brushing your teeth?

lol

 

[sparkles2307]

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Just don't come watch me pull anything out of the canner, I don't have a good enough grip to get the quarts out in one swift motion after spending all day slicing and dicing.... it ain't a pretty sight

I used a jar lifter for the first time last week. I usually use a silicone potholder and grab the jars out of the boiling water with minor finger damange.

 

[3goodeggs]

'I used finely chopped chocolate mint and water. I have seen recipies where they use apple juice as the base though. I figured I would try water...I mean have you drank apple juice after brushing your teeth? lol

I had never thought of it that way!