What are you canning now?

[Patchesnposies]

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Sandee, that is terrible. Will you see him AT ALL during the 3 months he is gone? If you keep canning to keep your mind busy you'll have to buy a warehouse to store it all before he gets back!

I gather Frog Jam is made with figs, would you share your recipe?

Deb

 

[Dragonfly Ranch]

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Interesting that you mention this. A couple of years ago someone gave me about 5 dozen quart jars and I was cleaning some of them up this weekend and noticed one that was a "Atlas - Strong Shoulder" - when I Googled it there was one selling for $8.00! There is another unusual looking Ball jar that has some interesting strips that are embossed on the edge. You never know you might be sitting on a gold mine with those jars. May be worth some research.

Sandee

 

[Dragonfly Ranch]

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Look at post #3909 from today about some jars the KDbeads got and then my reply 3 posts later - Check out the jars you got to make sure none are collectibles.

Sandee

 

[Dragonfly Ranch]

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Sandee, that is terrible. Will you see him AT ALL during the 3 months he is gone? If you keep canning to keep your mind busy you'll have to buy a warehouse to store it all before he gets back!

I gather Frog Jam is made with figs, would you share your recipe?

Deb

Deb - thank you. Yes, he is gone the whole time. He goes back to the job that we left when we moved 5 years ago and is a Supervisor. It is nice for us since he makes as much money there in 3 months as he would in a whole year here. We also have a deal that we get to keep our health insurance with them. So all in all its a great deal for us and he gets to spend the rest of the year working on our farm. But I still miss the heck out of him when he is gone. Talking on the phone each night is just not the same. I do think this year I will ask my neighbor to watch the chickens on go down and see him one weekend. That is kinda hard too though since he takes the night shift (5:00pm to 5:00am) so the other supervisors with children can be home with them in the evenings. So if I go then he is asleep most of the day. But the up side to that is "I go shopping" at all my old favorite stores! and yes spending money does help chase the blues away.

I also think you are right about needing to look for warehouse space!! We still have a lot of fruit in the orchard. I have about 20 pounds of Asian Pears that need to be canned. I haven't been able to find anything else to do with them. Anyone have any recipes for jams made with them.

Sandee

 

[TipsyDog]

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That looks GREAT! Somone's been a busy bee

I just picked up about 20 lbs. of peaches today and I want to can them. Yours look beautiful - are they in a light or heavy syrup? How much sugar did you use?

 

[GPN]

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I see most of what you listed, but did i miss the onion & jalapeno slices, and I would love your recipe for jalapeno-garlic jelly is it the bright green in front

 

[Terri O]

Here is my work for the day, right out of the canner; in the front is another batch of pear/ginger preserves and the quarts are stewed tomatoes with vegetables. The last of my tomatoes went in to this

Canning is a lot of work! But oh so rewarding! Terri O

 

[CityClucks]

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That looks GREAT! Somone's been a busy bee

I just picked up about 20 lbs. of peaches today and I want to can them. Yours look beautiful - are they in a light or heavy syrup? How much sugar did you use?

I put the peaches in a medium syrup - about 4 cups sugar to 5 cups water. Out of 30 pounds of peaches (each variety), I canned about 7 quarts and then used the same syrup and froze another 7 quarts in ziploc bags. The New Havens are yellow and an earlier-producing variety. The Lorings are the redder color and ripen later in the summer. When freezing, lay your filled bags flat on a cookie sheet or in a rectangular casserole dish befor putting them in the freezer to get flat, easy-to-fit-in-the-freezer bags.

 

[CityClucks]

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I see most of what you listed, but did i miss the onion & jalapeno slices, and I would love your recipe for jalapeno-garlic jelly is it the bright green in front

You're right - the jalepeno-garlic jelly is the bright green - I added a drop of food coloring to the jar. I actually got that recipe from this thread - I believe Frogdogtimestwo posted it originally in post #2797:
Here is the Garlic Jalapeno recipe
http://www.recipezaar.com/recipe/Hot-Pepper-Garlic-Jelly-95632 I would only use the one packet of pectin in this recipe I tried both ways and 2 is too stiff.

 

[CityClucks]

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I see most of what you listed, but did i miss the onion & jalapeno slices, and I would love your recipe for jalapeno-garlic jelly is it the bright green in front

Here's a photo of tomatoes canned with onion and jalapeno slices (on the right). I also did a few jars with basil and garlic.