What are you canning now?

[ducksanddoxies]

I'm waiting on our figs to ripen. I don't know what I'm gonna do with them, but I'm going to do something. Probably not the fig jam. Not really a fan. Maybe some peppery fig jelly/sauce or fig newtons, oh or chocolate covered figs....

 

[Raech]

I checked my apple pie jars last night, all 14 pints were sealed and cooling on the table. Woke up this morning to make sure they all sealed and to take the rings off, and I find one jar is not sealed and the ring is loose with a bottle opener thing next to it.

I guess as I was watering the garden and unflooding my blue spruce tree, my oldest decided to "smell" the apple pie jars. Little smarty found the jar opener, opened one and then licked it, and proceeds to tell me "that the cinnamon apples don't taste good, that are in the bag" Now I guess I will make some pancakes for dinner and put apples and powdered sugar on them. Should be a little bit different I guess. Now over to grandpa's to get more wide mouth jars, maybe some quarts this time, since the pears are starting to get big, the tree is so heavy the branches are starting to bend. Both apple trees, crap and astrid/astric, have broken branches due to too much fruit. I guess the vacation last year really helped them. Dad keeps threatening my pear tree if he has to walk under it one more time, he is only 6'4" and the branches barely clear my 5'8" head. I just hope he stays on the road long enough for me to get some of the pears off before he starts ripping branches off; much as I hate when he is gone. That one tree alone makes him super cranky, probably because it is right in the middle of the walk way when you go to cross the bridge or turn on the air compressor, or have to get the tractor, or move a vehicle out of the shop...

 

[rancher hicks]

I checked my apple pie jars last night, all 14 pints were sealed and cooling on the table. Woke up this morning to make sure they all sealed and to take the rings off, and I find one jar is not sealed and the ring is loose with a bottle opener thing next to it.

I guess as I was watering the garden and unflooding my blue spruce tree, my oldest decided to "smell" the apple pie jars. Little smarty found the jar opener, opened one and then licked it, and proceeds to tell me "that the cinnamon apples don't taste good, that are in the bag" Now I guess I will make some pancakes for dinner and put apples and powdered sugar on them. Should be a little bit different I guess. Now over to grandpa's to get more wide mouth jars, maybe some quarts this time, since the pears are starting to get big, the tree is so heavy the branches are starting to bend. Both apple trees, crap and astrid/astric, have broken branches due to too much fruit. I guess the vacation last year really helped them. Dad keeps threatening my pear tree if he has to walk under it one more time, he is only 6'4" and the branches barely clear my 5'8" head. I just hope he stays on the road long enough for me to get some of the pears off before he starts ripping branches off; much as I hate when he is gone. That one tree alone makes him super cranky, probably because it is right in the middle of the walk way when you go to cross the bridge or turn on the air compressor, or have to get the tractor, or move a vehicle out of the shop...

Here's a great recipe from BYC member Tabitha. Makes two cakes. Can be flavored with Orange or other flavoring. Uses a good amount of eggs, if you get too many. Can be frozen. A slice is great with a spoonful of your favorite Compote or jam.

Take one of these and a jar or jars of your jam for a nice dessert when going visiting. The wife says she was taught never to go anywhere empty handed.

Be sure to check the temp of your oven. Mine were not cooking well. Turned out our oven was 50* off.


OLD FASHION POUND CAKE
3 c. sugar
1 lb. butter, softened
10 eggs
4 c. plain flour
2 tsp. baking powder
2 tsp. vanilla
Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs and beat well. Measure and sift flour, baking powder and dash of salt. Add flour to mixture in several parts. Stop mixer, add about 1/3 of the flour, start mixer back slowly, then mix fast JUST UNTIL MIXED. Repeat until dry ingredients are all incorporated. Scrape down sides after each mixing. Put in 10 inch tube pan that has been greased and floured. Bake at 325 degrees for 1 hour and 20 minutes. Cool in pan for a few minutes before removing.
Makes two cakes using 9 ½ X 5 ½ loaf pans.
Baking time may vary depending on your oven.

 

[Happy Chooks]

I'm waiting on our figs to ripen. I don't know what I'm gonna do with them, but I'm going to do something. Probably not the fig jam. Not really a fan. Maybe some peppery fig jelly/sauce or fig newtons, oh or chocolate covered figs....

I understand that dehydrated figs are like candy. I wouldn't know, my figs haven't even made it in the house yet. I eat them on the way back to the house.

Take one of these and a jar or jars of your jam for a nice dessert when going visiting. The wife says she was taught never to go anywhere empty handed.

I was taught the same. I take something when I'm invited for dinner - a bottle of wine, eggs, fruit, veggies, jam, something. I think I'll get a lot of invites after I extract my honey.

 

[rancher hicks]

I understand that dehydrated figs are like candy. I wouldn't know, my figs haven't even made it in the house yet. I eat them on the way back to the house.

I was taught the same. I take something when I'm invited for dinner - a bottle of wine, eggs, fruit, veggies, jam, something. I think I'll get a lot of invites after I extract my honey.

DW say's getting a hive would be a good thing, but I would rather now have more animals to take care of. Plus the harvest time is not an easy time is it?

 

[Raech]

Here's a great recipe from BYC member Tabitha. Makes two cakes. Can be flavored with Orange or other flavoring. Uses a good amount of eggs, if you get too many. Can be frozen. A slice is great with a spoonful of your favorite Compote or jam.

Take one of these and a jar or jars of your jam for a nice dessert when going visiting. The wife says she was taught never to go anywhere empty handed.

Be sure to check the temp of your oven. Mine were not cooking well. Turned out our oven was 50* off.


OLD FASHION POUND CAKE
3 c. sugar
1 lb. butter, softened
10 eggs
4 c. plain flour
2 tsp. baking powder
2 tsp. vanilla
Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs and beat well. Measure and sift flour, baking powder and dash of salt. Add flour to mixture in several parts. Stop mixer, add about 1/3 of the flour, start mixer back slowly, then mix fast JUST UNTIL MIXED. Repeat until dry ingredients are all incorporated. Scrape down sides after each mixing. Put in 10 inch tube pan that has been greased and floured. Bake at 325 degrees for 1 hour and 20 minutes. Cool in pan for a few minutes before removing.
Makes two cakes using 9 ½ X 5 ½ loaf pans.
Baking time may vary depending on your oven.

I am going to do this when I have to house sit for my friend who will be gone for 5 days. They get around 36 eggs a day, I think I will just wash and carton most of them so he can still sell them when he gets back, and only keep a couple dozen as payment. I just looked in my fridge and I am 1 egg short of being able to do this right now. I have a junk food craving thanks to a friend talking about potato chips.

 

[rancher hicks]

I am going to do this when I have to house sit for my friend who will be gone for 5 days. They get around 36 eggs a day, I think I will just wash and carton most of them so he can still sell them when he gets back, and only keep a couple dozen as payment. I just looked in my fridge and I am 1 egg short of being able to do this right now. I have a junk food craving thanks to a friend talking about potato chips.

divide the recipe in half and make one cake.

We had this when a friend came and I swear she ate half a cake herself with some of my jam. Frosted with sugar frosting and a slice of this with some good jam and some whipped cream or vanilla ice cream and you've got a good dessert.

'mm

 

[Raech]

Saw a blueberry recipe that made a syrup and a jam, said to use it on pound or angel cake. Hoping to get more blueberry plants either this year or next spring so I can make some. We ate all the berries that the 2 bushes produced this year. Next year 4-6 more bushes sounds about right.

 

[Happy Chooks]

DW say's getting a hive would be a good thing, but I would rather now have more animals to take care of. Plus the harvest time is not an easy time is it?

This will be my first extraction, I'm pretty excited. I'm sure it's time consuming, with cleaning the equipment. It's easy to clean the frames, you stick it back in the hive and let the bees do it.

 

[3goodeggs]

I built the bee garden first, and I have the brooder and supers sitting here in the office staying clean while we wait on the hive arrival.

I guess we will get the nuc in the next few weeks.

It feels late in the year, but if we feed them over winter, the hive should be big enough next summer to fill some cells.
I guess we need to find the beekeepers thread!

My son is really much more excited about the bees than I expected him to be.