What are you canning now?

[vfem]

That is a most amazing sight! I can't believe people don't live like that anymore. They hit the grocery store every week instead and buy imported things they could have grown and canned themselves.

Well, today I must do more tomato sauce myself! (And the last of the blueberry pie filling too!)

 

[mississippifarmboy]

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Yes, we are still remodeling our house. We got a great deal on the house when we bought it because a fire had damaged a couple of rooms and smoked the whole house up. We got a really good deal on it so I bought it and started striping everything out and trying to fix everything. This cabinet is one of three I built in our living room / kitchen / dining room area for extra storage for canned goods. The kitchen is very small and just didn't have enough room for all the DW's stuff. They are 4' wide and 8' tall with four doors each, made of southern pine. Everything in our house is sorta rustic and country looking. Now if I can just ever get time to get it finished!
I am really proud of her for all her canning. She had never even had a garden or seen anything home canned when we married 14 years ago. She asked my Mom to teach her how to can and now that Mom is getting to where she can't do as much my wife is doing the canning for both of them.

 

[calicokat]

I tried to do Blueberry jelly, but got so very little juice from them. Is there a trick to them? I did just as I do for soft berries, smush them some in the pan & cook down some. Simmer, cover and let stand off heat about 10 minutes. Then strained them through cheesecloth. But out of 12 pints of berries, I only got 2 cups of juice -- ACK!

Should I have strained them through the colander, THEN restrained through cheesecloth? Or are blueberries a fruit that just don't give much juice?

 

[calicokat]

that's great that your wife got to learn to can from your mom!

I too had never done any of this, and my neighbor took me under her wing last summer. Now I'm enjoying the heck out of it! The best part is just sitting back and gazing at the pretty jars full of the garden's aboundance, all lined up neat and tidy, waiting for winter.

 

[Carolyn]

Yesterday I pickled quail eggs, my first time ever, and canned 20 pts of chili beans using dried pinto beans and a smooth chili sauce made from the juice left over after canning tomato juice on Monday.

Today it is chopping peppers and valdalia onions for the freezer and canning roasted red peppers. The peppers are red and green chili peppers, red bell and pimentos. I've never done the chilis this way so I hope they are good.

I love this thread. I am recently retired and finally have time to can more that just than tomatos, green beans and crowder peas that I usually manage every year.

 

[Terri O]

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They look fabulous! I am making mine TODAY! oh yeah, looking for the pickled egg recipe...seems the ones on the shelf are a compilation of two recipes....Terri O

 

[Terri O]

I am in a quandary now...I have the recipe for the sprouts from here, and I found a Sweet Pickled Brussels Sprouts and also Dilled Sprouts recipe...I just KNEW I shouldnt look for that egg recipe! And it wasnt even IN this book!

Any thoughts on Hot vs Sweet vs Dilled sprouts?

This is pretty funny...the batch on the shelf is from our own BYC cookbook! So is it OK for me to post it here or do you have to buy the book? I know that the first batch I did (long gone now) I just saved the pickle juice from a jar and added a few jalapenos and some onion and the HB eggs. Let them sit for 2 weeks and they got better and better as time went on. I made them in a half gallon canning jar.
Terri

 

[ChickenToes]

11 pints of sweet pickled beets today! I probably could have left them in the ground longer, but my tomatoes are starting to ripen, and I'll be so busy canning those soon. I just wanted the dang beets out the way!

 

[Terri O]

Well, seeing as everyone must be busy canning I just went with the recipe I had that had a cauliflower variation:

And that is all I did for the day...I am now heading to the beach because it is to darned hot in this house! Terri O

 

[KDbeads]

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I am now armed with brussel sprouts.....

Just wait until tomorrow when I start manhandling them into jars!