What are you canning now?

[hennible]

Try it out and tell us how it goes

 

[3goodeggs]

I bought a bag of lemons and a bag of limes. Not sure why, we really don't use many in our daily lives, guess they were a good price or something ...

Looking to use them up before they go bad and I found a recipe for strawberry lemonade concentrate to be canned. Do you think I can make a strawberry limeade concentrate to be canned also? just substitute lime for lemon? I like the strawberry limeade koolaid packets, I am thinking this might be better.

I canned lemon juice and it isn't the same. I do however freeze it in ice cube trays and us it for marinades,salad dressings, drinks jellies ect.
you can also zest the peel and freeze it too.
I did not add water or juice to the peel and it freeze dried. Next time I think for things like cookies and pound cakes, I might freeze it in some melted butter to keep it moist.

 

[hendricks115]

I have a mountain of quinces. I tried a recipe yesterday for slow roasted quinces and they were delicious. We ate it over vanilla ice cream.

I'm thinking since we have another tree of them to harvest that I may try the recipe again with a little tweeking and jar it. Think I'm going to run to the farmers market tomorrow and grab some fresh cranberries and add them to the recipe. I think it will be a great addition. It tasted like something that you would eat at Thanksgiving, almost like a cranberry relish. If it turns out yummy, I will take pictures!

I made quince preserves last year and we love it! I like trying new things though.

Anyone have any other tried and true recipes for quinces?

 

[Happy Chooks]

Anyone have an easy sauerkraut recipe? I've never made it before, but I have a head of cabbage and the DH loves it.

 

[iawoodchip]

Are you making kraut from scratch, or do you want a recipe with kraut in it?. I have tro leavr for an hour & will be right back

 

[iawoodchip]

Anyone have an easy sauerkraut recipe? I've never made it before, but I have a head of cabbage and the DH loves it.

I posted a recipe to make 5# of kraut in a gallon jar in the forum under social section under Eggs, Chicken & other favorite recipes. on July 6th 2014. I think it has moved down a page or two by now. Type in kraut in the search bar, & it should come up.. We really like the way it comes out. Keep great in the fridge without processing. If you don't find it let me know

 

[Happy Chooks]

Are you making kraut from scratch, or do you want a recipe with kraut in it?. I have tro leavr for an hour & will be right back

From scratch.

I posted a recipe to make 5# of kraut in a gallon jar in the forum under social section under Eggs, Chicken & other favorite recipes. on July 6th 2014. I think it has moved down a page or two by now. Type in kraut in the search bar, & it should come up.. We really like the way it comes out. Keep great in the fridge without processing. If you don't find it let me know

Thanks, I will go search for it.

 

[WYNot]

11 pints of applesauce done on Sunday. Had about 2/3 of a pint jar left over. Had a good mix of apples so didn't need to add any sugar, just some apple pie spice and a little extra cinnamon. Can't wait to have the extra with dinner tonight. Got to use the new strainer attachment for the Kitchen-Aid mixer for the first time. Worked great. The hopper expansion leaks all over the place though. But it is just juice and it runs down into the bowl that catches the strained apple so is tolerable I guess. Chickens loved the seeds and skins that came out the end.

Opened up a jar of the Honey Butter Ambrosia Sunday morning to put on toast. Down to a single jar of in the freezer. Going to have to get a few more made before the holidays.

BIG batch of vanilla bean liqueur (about a gallon) is almost done. Will have to get that strained and bottled soon. GREAT in coffee. Next big batch will be some Apple Pie Moonshine. Managed to pick up half a dozen bottles of Everclear 191 in Wyoming last month when we were out there for our annual deer/pronghorn hunt. Evidently people here in OH are too stupid to be trusted with the 191. The nanny state won't allow it to be sold.

Airlocks, plugs, and yeast ordered and on the way. Going to have to start a few jugs of hard cider next weekend.

 

[Happy Chooks]

What is honey butter ambrosia?

 

[WYNot]

Basically, honey, butter, and heavy whipping cream. I've got a couple of posts around here with the recipe. Great stuff for putting on toast or english muffins.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/78434/what-are-you-canning-now/8750#post_12119821

Ingredients

1 cup sugar
1 cup heavy cream
1 cup honey
3 sticks butter (or 3/4 lb), softened
1 tsp vanilla

Instructions

In a sauce pan combine sugar, cream and honey. Heat on medium high heat and stir until it comes to a boil. Boil for 1 minute.
Put the softened butter in a blender or food processor, and pour the hot mixture over the butter. Blend on medium speed until mixed well. Add vanilla, and blend again. Pour mixture into a container, cover and let cool in the refrigerator. Keep refrigerated. Can be frozen. Keeps very well in freezer in jars.
Serve on warm bread, toast, english muffins, oatmeal, pancakes, etc.

The recipe makes almost exactly the right amount to fill two pint-sized mason jars. You'll have a little left over so make sure you have something good to put it on ready to go.

What is honey butter ambrosia?