What are you canning now?

[ducksanddoxies]

What are mock olives?

 

[erinszoo]

What are mock olives?

I found the recipe in the 1932 Ball blue book. They are green sand plums that you salt brine. They taste pretty close to green olives when you're done. They are perfect texture wise and in color and size.

You just take sand plums that are just beginning to ripen but are still green, wash well and cover with a brine made from heating 1 pound salt in 1 gallon of water. Let sit for 36 hours. Drain. Cover in new brine and boil for one minute. Drain and pack hot in jars. Cover with new brine and seal jars. Water bath 10 minutes.

We tried it because we don't eat a lot of olives and figured these basically ended up being free. A friend suggested soaking them overnight in olive oil before we ate them.

 

[Chick-a-dow-dee]

I canned some amazing black apricot plum preserves! Yum!

 

[rancher hicks]

I have got so many jars I really need to get going on some jams. There is so much yard work out there though. It's going to be rainy so i should just get things set up.

We don't have a lot of counter space though.

Lots of cherries and blue berries at the market. I expect plums to be coming up next.

DW has to cut back on things because her blood sugar is up. She'll be starting insulin cuz her treatments are the cause. She has to cut out all carbs, or most of them anyhow.

Anyone working on a jam or jelly for diabetics. I'm considering using some Stevia instead of sugar and experimenting.

 

[Raech]

I would be willing to come over and help Rancher, but you are a little bit too far. I think Stevia and sugar cross at the same amounts, kind of like honey and sugar.

Hope your wife is doing ok with treatments, my friends 8 year old boy just got done today from Leukemia, and he now has a baby sister that showed up a month early.

 

[rancher hicks]

I would be willing to come over and help Rancher, but you are a little bit too far. I think Stevia and sugar cross at the same amounts, kind of like honey and sugar.

Hope your wife is doing ok with treatments, my friends 8 year old boy just got done today from Leukemia, and he now has a baby sister that showed up a month early.

She's really tired today and doesn't feel well. She got her shot yesterday and that does her in for a day or two. She has been up and done a couple of things. I think the hearse coming for our next door neighbor might be giving her trouble too. He had liver cancer and died today.

I went to the library and got everything I could on Stevia and cooking. If you go by what's on line it's either good or bad. Yet the FDA has approved it. Studies they mention have been done well or not. You're not sure whether it's the truth or just stuff someone made up.

It makes me crazy. Stevia they've approved after studies, but marijuana they legalize with no studies.

Some say Stevia causes cancer others not. Who do you believe.

Of course many are pointing at it as a weight loss thing and I just want to find something diabetics can eat.

 

[erinszoo]

 
I would be willing to come over and help Rancher, but you are a little bit too far. I think Stevia and sugar cross at the same amounts, kind of like honey and sugar.

Hope your wife is doing ok with treatments, my friends 8 year old boy just got done today from Leukemia, and he now has a baby sister that showed up a month early. 

She's really tired today and doesn't feel well.  She got her shot yesterday and that does her in for a day or two. She has been up and done a couple of things.  I think the hearse coming for our next door neighbor might be giving her trouble too. He had liver cancer and died today. 

I went to the library and got everything I could on Stevia and cooking.  If you go by what's on line it's either good or bad. Yet the FDA has approved it. Studies they mention have been done well or not.  You're not sure whether it's the truth or just stuff someone made up. 

It makes me crazy.  Stevia they've approved after studies, but marijuana they legalize with no studies.    Some say Stevia causes cancer others not.  Who do you believe. 

Of course many are pointing at it as a weight loss thing and I just want to find something diabetics can eat. 

Check out some paleo sites for sugar and flour free recipes. There are some really good recipes out there. You can make a jam using chia seed to thicken it instead of pectin and sugar with either honey or stevia to sweeten. There's also monk fruit out now that's a sweetener but I haven't tried it for anything but iced tea which we like it in better than the stevia.

 

[3goodeggs]

Just remember that part of what allows jams and jellies to be safe to just hot water bath can is that the sugar content acts as a preservative. We can water bath can tomatoes because of the acid content and salt. When we move to grains like chia or corn to thicken things, we might have to either pressure can, or just make up small batches for the refrigerator.

they make diabetic jams and jellies, but I remember them being really bouncy like they were 90% pectin or something.

 

[rancher hicks]

Check out some paleo sites for sugar and flour free recipes. There are some really good recipes out there. You can make a jam using chia seed to thicken it instead of pectin and sugar with either honey or stevia to sweeten. There's also monk fruit out now that's a sweetener but I haven't tried it for anything but iced tea which we like it in better than the stevia.

I'm not sure what the "paleo sites" you're talking about are.

I'm trying to find a substitute for sugar that won't cause an insulin reaction for diabetics. Aqave and Honey do. Most fruits do contain sugar too. I believe Stevia doesn't cause a reaction, but there are differing opinions about it's safety.

Most efforts to find sugar free substitutes have to do with caloric in take and while products have zero calories they do cause an insulin reaction.

 

[rancher hicks]

Just remember that part of what allows jams and jellies to be safe to just hot water bath can is that the sugar content acts as a preservative. We can water bath can tomatoes because of the acid content and salt. When we move to grains like chia or corn to thicken things, we might have to either pressure can, or just make up small batches for the refrigerator.

they make diabetic jams and jellies, but I remember them being really bouncy like they were 90% pectin or something.

I'm not sure about the diabetic jams and jellies they sell. Some of them are just low sugar, not sugar free.

So I go looking on the web and find a "free diabetic cookbook" I fill out the information that included my phone number. When I get to the part asking for insurance information I stop and close the window. I kid you not, about five to ten minutes later I get a phone call, about the diabetic survey I filled out. A coincidence? I also unclicked them contacting me by phone before I realized that wanted my insurance information.

Says he's from Help People Now. Not the name on the web site, so where did he get this information.

Some recipes call for low sugar and a sugar substitute like Sweet n' Low. Or jello and have to be eaten within a couple of days.