What are you canning now?

[Happy Chooks]

Sounds like you added too much water.

 

[m.kitchengirl]

Today I am canning Crab Apple Pickles for the restaurant I work at and some applesauce and pickled green tomatoes for us here at home. We had a killing frost warning last night so I just pulled all of my cherry tomatoes. Tomorrow pear butter and more tomato sauce.

 

[Duramaxgirl]

My mom helped me make 13 pints of mixed fruit jam! It was so fun! And today we're going to make strawberry jam. I think I'm hooked! We used her boiling water bath canner. I asked DH to get me one for christmas

Here's a pic of some of yesterdays work!

 

[Happy Chooks]

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Looks great! What all is in it?

I have an awful head cold right now, so no canning at the moment. I've got lots in the freezer though waiting to be canned.

 

[Duramaxgirl]

The first 3 we made are blueberry and sweet cherry. The rest leftovers of blueberry and cherry mixed with strawberry, peach, mango, pineapple, and a few more I can't remember. I added 2 tablespoons per batch of lemon juice to. I'm new and that's what my book said to do

 

[Sore Thumb Suburbanite]

Sad news, the lids I used that were unused but, I guess antique, have unvaccummed!...two of my jar lids have lost suction and now go up and down when you press them.

I posted earlier about how three or four of my jars with these lids had lost some of their contents during boiling and were on the low side... well now two of the jars have lost their seal and I threw the contents into the mulch pile, too frieghtened to try them out two weeks later. Ugh!

I'm dissapointed, I thought I had this great hoard of canning equiptment and goods collected from all my elderly and passed relatives... and the stuff has become outdated. I will try some old ball jars from the 40s with these lids next time, but if they don't work, I'll be devistated!

Tomorrow I'm going to pick apples at some farm an hour away... So I'll be canning those next week. Can everyone post pictures of their canned apples? I want to know if anyone cuts them in prettier ways for canning.

 

[caspernc]

Boil the old jars first to make sure the don't break when heated. Read a post about someone who had OLD jars that looked fine but in the canner they broke. She said she would always boil old jars first from now on. Me too!

 

[erinchelsea]

I finally got enough ripe tomatoes to can some today. Is it just me or does anyone else get depressed at the amount of tomatoes you have to process to get a few measly quarts?! It's so much work! I wonder if there's an easier way.... maybe using a food mill and just doing sauce?

 

[erinchelsea]

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sounds like you did use too much water. I don't think you need much. The recipe I use calls for 16 apples and 1 cup apple juice. I don't think I even used that much and it was fine. Just a tiny bit on the bottom of the pan. Just stir frequently!

 

[sonew123]

HELP!!! ok So I pressure canned for the first time with chili...did the 10lbs pressure for 90 minutes..let it rest when done..popped top and pot was filled with saucy liquid Appears to have emptied my jars out about 1/2 inch? I don't get what I did wrong??? I went to clean one of the rings that was crusty with tomato gunk and the top came right off?? so now is that chili bad-I put the top right back on and screwed the lid again...