What are you canning now?

[erinszoo]

Quote: I grow currants. It's best to wait until fall to move it but if it isn't very hot and you water it well, it might be okay. We've had ours for years and years now and have only gotten enough currants off of them in the past four years to do anything. I made three pints of jelly this year.

Today I made the first batch of sand plum jelly. Got eight half pints and that was only half of one batch of juice. So by the time I finish all the juice I should have 32 half pints of jelly. I'll give about half of those away as Christmas gifts. Love Sand plum jelly.

 

[rancher hicks]

Jam is fine.  I waited for the berries to turn deeper than garnets.  The jam is very dark and, well, jammy.   

Last year I did a mixed berry batch of gooseberries, blueberries and raspberries.  It was pretty good.   However, I have friends from England (now living in USA) who are craving pure gooseberry.  Guess it's a Brit thing.....  Wake up the taste buds.

My SOL has family over there. Perhaps I'll send it over there.

 

[WthrLady]

Today I managed 12 pints of kosher dill pickle slices and spears, and 10 half pints of sweet and devilish pickle relish. (I pickled banana peppers last week.)

I also cranked out a sugar cream pie. Since it was 98 with a heat index of 114, I decided it was an inside day. Luckily, I didn't heat up the kitchen TOO much. LOL.

Now if the tomatoes would just start taking off.

Corn and sorghum is thigh high. Peppers are struggling in the heat. Ripped the peas out last week. Egg plants, cantaloupe, sweet potatoes are going gang busters. Potatoes are starting to hate the heat. Leaf lettuce and herbs are fine. Beans are all leaves and no beans. I might rip them out this week.

 

[bauerdog]

I managed to gain access to a wineberry patch and canned 8 half pints of jam. After snacking on a while bunch of course!

 

[speckledhen]

Final total on pickles, 53 jars, though they turned out so good, we've already consumed a couple, lol. There is one jar of spiced vinegar we just canned and left with the pickles. On the bottom left, the Roma beans and two jars of stewed tomatoes from about 3 years ago. My only producing jalapeno pepper plant has 8 on it and still blooming.

 

[rancher hicks]

I can not get over the misinformation on the internet.

One says "one preserve that has suffered over the years is Red Currant jelly. Preserves and Jelly are NOT the same thing.

Another video shows to add the sugar and THEN strain the liquid. After you add the sugar you are going for "set". Jelly that is strained after set will be runny. Jelly should not be runny.

Point? use caution when looking for recipes and methods.

IMO Red currants are too hard to pick and too hard to prepare to have them wasted by improper use.

 

[Raech]

Today I managed 12 pints of kosher dill pickle slices and spears, and 10 half pints of sweet and devilish pickle relish.  (I pickled banana peppers last week.)

I also cranked out a sugar cream pie.  Since it was 98 with a heat index of 114, I decided it was an inside day.  Luckily, I didn't heat up the kitchen TOO much.  LOL.

Now if the tomatoes would just start taking off.

Corn and sorghum is thigh high.  Peppers are struggling in the heat.  Ripped the peas out last week.  Egg plants, cantaloupe, sweet potatoes are going gang busters.  Potatoes are starting to hate the heat.  Leaf lettuce and herbs are fine.  Beans are all leaves and no beans.  I might rip them out this week. 

Do you plant a second harvest of peas, if so, when?

 

[WthrLady]

I do. This time I won't mix up my overplanting with snap and snow peas. I had to replant after a freeze, but they came up anyway, and I mixed the two plots by accident. Both were bush, but really would have done better trellised. Peas are a PIA to pick, and it was 100' when I was picking. UGH.

I ripped the plants out by the roots and tossed the HUGE pile into the yard for the hens. It was a serious party for two days. LOL. They were pooping green. Bushes were full of peas, bugs, and caterpillars. BIG PARTY.

Probably will plant early September or late August depending on the weather set up. Later, and I might have to drag out the hoops, but that's ok.


After pickling, I had three extra giant cukes left over ( I didn't feel like another batch in the canner) so I took them over to the neighbor who plowed and tilled my garden. They haven't had ANY cukes yet. I've had 12 pounds. LOL.

I need to check the vines again tonight, about 830....over 100 again today. Icky.

 

[GJ_Kate]

I put up 7 half pints of raspberry vanilla jam and barely 2 half pints of red currant jelly yesterday. I'd never done currant jelly and while it wasn't hard, it didn't make much. But at least the kids don't eat themselves sick when picking them like they did the raspberries! Lol. We're hopefully going back up to the you pick it place this Saturday to get blackberries and maybe some elderberries and black currants. Although my plans for the black currants do not include canning per se as much as they do infusing alcohol.

 

[rancher hicks]

I put up 7 half pints of raspberry vanilla jam and barely 2 half pints of red currant jelly yesterday. I'd never done currant jelly and while it wasn't hard, it didn't make much. But at least the kids don't eat themselves sick when picking them like they did the raspberries! Lol. We're hopefully going back up to the you pick it place this Saturday to get blackberries and maybe some elderberries and black currants. Although my plans for the black currants do not include canning per se as much as they do infusing alcohol.

I had two cups of R. Currants in the freezer and two from my bushes this year so did that up. Also had some black currants and while not enough for the recipe, I added a 12oz bag to them and made that up.

Mainly I think it's one for one sugar to juice. I did add some liquid pectin but probably could have left it out. I just can't seem to bring it up to temp on this stove.

DD and SIL brought home some blueberries wanting me to do them up. Like I can just make it up. Those two have no idea how much work it is. Especially considering they don't help. I'll rinse them and freeze them. Unless they do something with them.

They got them from HIS parents place. HIS parents don't have these guys living with them! No two little kids to deal with. His parents also have red currants too. Nice sized farm kitchen too.

I'll have to go pick raspberries if I want to make any raspberry jam. Not something I'm looking forward to.