What are you canning now?

[Hillbilly Hen]

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Umm, how do you can zuchinni bread? Sounds interesting.

 

[Opa]

I sure enjoy reading everyone posts about canning and it sure is nice to see how young many of you are. I remember helping my mother with canning over 60 years ago. Today Hope and I will be making and canning tomato sauce, green beans and pickles. The nice thing is this year my mother will be helping us.

 

[marymac]

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Here is my recipe...I used red and green cabbage and it turs into a pretty fushia color

sweet n sour cabbage

Shreded red cabbage and green cabbage
sprinkle salt over, let set couple hours to wilt
drain well
make brine of
4 cup vinegar , 1 cup water, and 2-3 cup sugar.....depending on how sweet you like it
add 1 Tbl each...Mustard seed
Pickling spice
celery seed
boil this mixture about 5 min, strain brine through mesh strainer, pack cabbage into sterile jars thghtly, pour brine over, run knife to release air bubbles and seal with sterile caps. Process in water bath for 10 min after it comes back to boil
note; You may use all red or all green cabbage, and make it as sweet or sour as you like

 

[Scoop]

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Here is my recipe...I used red and green cabbage and it turs into a pretty fushia color

sweet n sour cabbage

Shreded red cabbage and green cabbage
sprinkle salt over, let set couple hours to wilt
drain well
make brine of
4 cup vinegar , 1 cup water, and 2-3 cup sugar.....depending on how sweet you like it
add 1 Tbl each...Mustard seed
Pickling spice
celery seed
boil this mixture about 5 min, strain brine through mesh strainer, pack cabbage into sterile jars thghtly, pour brine over, run knife to release air bubbles and seal with sterile caps. Process in water bath for 10 min after it comes back to boil
note; You may use all red or all green cabbage, and make it as sweet or sour as you like

Love your picture! I'm copying this recipe. It looks so easy! I am out of canning jars right now but this looks interesting.

 

[Patchesnposies]

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And I'll bet they think it is the best jelly they ever had! There is such a sense of satisfaction and a certain kind of contentment that comes from putting up food for your family, isn't there?

 

[Patchesnposies]

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It's so funny that you should write this. I told my husband that canning was like quilting....but with food. It is just another way to express creativity and the possibilities are endless! To look at all of those jars of food, in various colors, in small groups and then the whole of them, they just remind me of a beautiful quilt.

And just as a quilt is beautiful to look at, and gives us its warmth, the food we can pleases the senses and also sustains us.

I mentioned this in my post to texasgal, but worried that it would sound really strange.....and deleted it! LOL

I am so glad that you can see the "art" in your pantry, too!

 

[Dragonfly Ranch]

Made 10 1/2 pints of Fig Preserves last night. I added some green figs hoping that it would help with setting the jam - but this morning still not set. I also cooked it a really long time.

Anyone have any other ideas of what to do with figs. I picked another 34 the other night and noticed a bunch more on the tree this morning.

I also agree with the beauty of food. I get really excited about the textures and designs that Mother Nature has in her bounty. I was marveling at the patterns and colors of the figs when I cut them open last night. Funny to sign-on and see that others feel the same.

Happy Canning!

Sandee

 

[marymac]

I think canning is as addictive as chickens

I look at my jars of food and admire the beauty in it too. When I have an off day of not canning I think I go into withdrawl and just think about what to can next. Are you all the same? I found the recipe for Mock Zucchini Pineapple on google. I just have to try this out next, it sounds fantastic!!!!

 

[insiderart]

I do think they are pretty there on the shelf. Especially in that knotty pine pantry! Very rustic.


Also, everyone is so suprised when the food coming out of them tastes so good! I made grape jelly and have given most of this first batch away (I have 12c of juice frozen for later for jelly DD, she LOVES it), and everyone exclaims "wow, it's so much better than store bought! I need some more of that!". LOL!

 

[Dragonfly Ranch]

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Thanks for turning on the porch light! Sometimes I can be rather dim! Your talk about grape jelly flipped the switch. Each year my husband returns to the Napa Valley to work the grape harvest at the winery we used to work at. I'm going to tell him to get some grapes for me and make some jelly. I'll have him ask the wine makers which grapes would taste best. What type of grapes did you use?

Sandee