What are you canning now?

[Lacy Blues]

The past two weeks I have canned 14 pints sliced carrots, 24 quarts bread & butter pickles, 19 quarts hamburger dills, 14 quarts dill spears, 14 quarts potatoes, 47 quarts green beans, and 49 pints chicken.
I also froze 25 bags diced, 14 bags sliced, and 13 bags halves of bell peppers, 43 bags corn cut off the cob, 16 bags of diced onions, and 18 bags of peas.

In the days to come, I will be freezing more corn, peas, and lima beans, and canning lots of tomatoes, as well as mixed vegetables.

Oooo, my favorite!

 

[hdmax]

Oooo, my favorite!

Mine too! Some times I will serve them with a meal, just put a good sized pile on the plate with the other food.

 

[cravenchx]

12 qts. of potatoes last night (24 all together). We don't have a root cellar

so I want to preserve as much as I can. Plus it sure will make tater soup easier to make this winter coming home from work and it's dark and cold!

 

[Hillbilly Hen]

The past two weeks I have canned 14 pints sliced carrots, 24 quarts bread & butter pickles, 19 quarts hamburger dills, 14 quarts dill spears, 14 quarts potatoes, 47 quarts green beans, and 49 pints chicken.
I also froze 25 bags diced, 14 bags sliced, and 13 bags halves of bell peppers, 43 bags corn cut off the cob, 16 bags of diced onions, and 18 bags of peas.

In the days to come, I will be freezing more corn, peas, and lima beans, and canning lots of tomatoes, as well as mixed vegetables.

Oh my!!

That made me tired just reading about it!

 

[Hillbilly Hen]

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You need to post some of your recipes . . .orange-scented spiced applesauce sounds SO good to me. . .and I would really like a good apple butter recipe.

I would like to try the orange scented applesauce too. Sounds interesting.

I have a recipe for Jack Daniels apple butter, my favorite. I will try to post later when my work is done. I have to look through my recipes to find it.

 

[erinszoo]

This month I have canned 8 pints of beef, 4 pints of pickled eggplant, 2 quarts and 5 pints of bread and butter pickles, 4 pints of sweet pickle relish, 4 pints of pickled okra, 8 pints of nectarine jam, 8 pints of ketchup, 5 pints of pizza sauce, 8 half pints of blackberry jam, 6 half-pints of ch-ot-um jelly, 4 pints of stew vegies, 7 pints of tomatoes, ... and I've dehydrated several batches of eggplant, basil, and fruit leather.

I still have salsa and spaghetti sauce to finish this week and my cucumbers are just loaded so there will be more pickles in my future too. September brings apple and pear harvest so I'm planning for that too.

It's funny in a way that I am so busy canning and preserving this year. I haven't had time to even stop and breathe hardly. But somehow I asked for it ... since I wanted to see just how self-sufficient we could be this year. I've always thought I would have been a good pioneer homesteading on the prairie somewhere ... but after this year, I'm not so sure I could have kept up with all the gardening and canning and preserving it would have taken to survive the winter. Then again, I would have had more than 1/4 acre of land to do it on too ...

 

[Arielle]

I don't like the red and super sweet plums. Plum jam to me tastes great but is too darn sweet. The kind of plum I like is the black plum at the grocery store and I eat them while they are still quite firm. They're not so sweet that way. Does anyone know exactly what kind of plum this is? I'd like to have a plum tree but I don't want the other kinds.

definitely take the time to ask someone in the grocery area-- there are so many variieties of plums. Maybe Damson? THere is also a beach plum but I can't see that making it to the commercial mkt.

 

[Arielle]

Canned for the first time in my adult life. 7 quarts of turkey.

Have summer squash in now.


WOuld like to ask-- does anyone start with cold or room temperature foods for packing the canning jars?? Can't see adding hot water to jars filled with cubed summer sqaush. ALl opionons welcomed.

 

[Arielle]

Just canned 4 pints of dilly beans with some beans our neighbor brought over this morning. We are headed to the coast for the weekend, and won't be able to eat them while still fresh.

Is this an easy recipe???

 

[Arielle]

Last question-----


I'm looking for recipes without sugar--- can any one direct me to any sources? Or share some recipes?

Sugar gives me wicked hot flashes.