What are you canning now?

[vfem]

I was going to do pear butter as I have a 5 gallon bucket full, but they are still kinda hard. I'm going to give them a day or 2 to soften a bit.

I have plums simmering on the stove now to make plum & almond jam.

YUM!

 

[vfem]

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Recipe??

Oh yes...

Caramel Apple Jam

6 cups of peeled chopped apples
1 box of pectin
1 tbsp of lemon juice
*1/2 tsp cinnamon & pinch of nutmeg - optional
3 Cup granulated sugar
2 cups of brown sugar

Cook the chopped apples until soft (add a bit of water for harder apples), about 10 minutes over medium heat. Add lemon juice & pectin and bring to a boil for 1 minute. Add sugar and bring back to a boil. Cook for 1 minute. Remove from heat and ladle into sterilized jars, cover and waterbath for 10 minutes.

 

[erinchelsea]

KenK, those peppers are gorgeous!

yum...that caramel apple jam sounds heavenly.

I made grape jelly from grapes from my mom's vineyard today. I think they were Summerset grapes? It turned out really good.

 

[Raiquee]

13 pints of green beans
2 quarts of pasta sauce with my romas canned also.

Pressure canning for me takes forever! You gotta steralize the beans, pack em, pour boiling water over them, get them in the canner, bring the water in the canner up to boil, vent the canner for 7 minutes, put the pressure gauge on, wait for it to come to pressure, pressure can at temperature for x amount of time, then turn off heat, wait for pressure to go to zero, take off pressure gauge, wait for all the steam to escape, then get your cans out. But, I got a big pressure canner so at least I can make it count and do a full load at once.

Can't wait to do chicken stock

But next on my list:

More green beans!
Strawberry lemonade marmalade
Marashino cherries
cherry pie filling

 

[Happy Chooks]

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I made this one last year and it was great!
http://www.tasteofhome.com/Recipes/Caramel-Apple-Jam

 

[Germaine_11.20]

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VFEM Do you use whole almonds in the plum jam or almond flavoring. Do you have a recipe to share by any chance. I am looking online for a good one but yours sounds great. Lots of plums, pears, peaches right now

 

[Germaine_11.20]

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I love jalapeno jelly. I have a few recipes, would you share yours?

 

[Opa]

Yesterday I canned 40 pints of shelled horticulture beans. Last year I wasn't happy with how they came out. The beans in the top 1/3 of the jar were dry, the water in the jar only came to about half. Finally figured out that the problem was caused by the beans absorbing the water. This year I left 1 1/2" of head space and brought to water to within 1/4" from the top and they came out prefect.

 

[sonew123]

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I love jalapeno jelly. I have a few recipes, would you share yours?

OMG piece of cake from Ball book
12onces of jalapenos -put those and 1 cup of apple cider vinigar in processor and blend. Pour into pot with 6 cups of sugar 2 Tbsps of lemon juice and 1 more cup of vinegar. bring to boil for 10 minutes-add 2 packages of liquid pectin-hard boil for 1 minute can up! wallah!

 

[vfem]

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VFEM Do you use whole almonds in the plum jam or almond flavoring. Do you have a recipe to share by any chance. I am looking online for a good one but yours sounds great. Lots of plums, pears, peaches right now

I actually just add slivered almonds to the regular plum jam recipe. I cook down my plums, skins and all (super pectin fruit) and then I add the almonds when I add the lemon juice, about 1 minute before I add the sugar. If you toast the almonds first, it works best to get the flavor all through.