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My wife has asked for a new pressure caner. I think I will go ahead and get it for her even though we don't have the garden yet. I need a new tiller for myself. Then we shall return to canning like we used to.
My wife has asked for a new pressure caner. I think I will go ahead and get it for her even though we don't have the garden yet. I need a new tiller for myself. Then we shall return to canning like we used to.
For years, we would hit true farmers markets like the South Carolina Farmers Market in Columbia or the Eastern Market in Detroit at the END of the say when they wanted to go home and get some great deals like $3 for a bushel of peaches or $2 for a box of zucchini. When we scored a deal, we would share some of it with the neighbors and put up the rest of the goods in the freezer.
Or we would score a deal on cherries or berries and my MIL would can them.
My wife has asked for a new pressure caner. I think I will go ahead and get it for her even though we don't have the garden yet. I need a new tiller for myself. Then we shall return to canning like we used to.
Good news in deed! I am looking at buying a pressure canner that does like 4 qts or 5 pints at a time. With my family size dwindling I don't want to have to break out the big canner when a smaller one would get more use. Especially in the winter time.
I've actually frozen more than I have canned this year. With my bumper tomato crop, there has been many a mad dash to recipe books and online to find 'new' ways for me to use all my tomatoes....So far there has been home-made veggie soup, chili base, tomato relish, tomato salsa and of course just regular tomatoes!!!! Haven't tried spaghetti sauce, Jax, is your recipe listed on here somewhere???
My green beans were eaten by a varmit...so no green beans.
Put up 60 quarts of peas
30 quarts of butterbeans
60 pints of corn
15 pints of chili base
canned 8 pints of tomato relish
frozen 10 pints of tomato salsa
churned 1 churn full of pickles
12 pints of icebox pickles
6 gallon veggie soup
50 pints jelly and fig preserves
10 gallons okra
6 gallons squash
1 gallon chopped bell peppers
1 quart chopped jalepeno pepper
6 bottles of pepper sauce
and cooked (scrambled) 6 pounds hambuger meat with onions and peppers in it. About to do more.
me tired.....but must give much credit to dh who has helped me more this year than ever and I greatly appreciate it.
I still have some tomatoes, so I'm making salsa either tonight or tomorrow. And then that'll be it. Oh, wait, there will be apples for apple butter and spiced apple rings ... and cranberries for cranberry sauce and chutney ... *sigh*
Gonna need more jars ...
I don't remember what I've put up already ... quartered tomatoes, spaghetti sauce, tomato jam, blueberry preserves, blueberry peach jam, peach salsa, green tomato chutney. The spouse thinks I'm insane, but I'm having fun.
lol I been layzy but my Tomatoes are still green and I already bought 2 bushels...grr I dont want to buy them !!!!
so far I did
6 Quarts of Glazed Carrots
24 1/2 Pints of Salsa
12 Pints of CInnamon Apple sauce
4 Pints of Apple Butter
3 Pints of Spaghtetti Sauce
Froze
2 Gallon Bags of Green Beans
1 Gallon Bag of Yellow Beans
Fridge:
12 Quarts of Fridge pickles
Tomatoes here are not real good so I been a lot of garbage in the tomatoes..... its depressing.
Making more Apple Sauce & Apple Butter, if I get some NICE Tomatoes I make some more Chillie Sauce or Spaghetti Sauce, also making Fruit coctail, waiting on the Squash yet,
oh and more Peaches
Its just been a crazy Summer and here its been really a rough year trying to have a Garden with all the Rain and cold....
ON a another Note I have a BUNCH of those little bitty Jars I think they are 2 oz??? what do you put in there?? I got them for FREE could not turn them down !!
A couple of days ago, I had to find these recipes for a friend. She remembers these from my previous days of canning. Just another way to get rid of tomatoes and the good thing is, you can use these tomatoes on toast!! LOL
Tomato Preserves With Pineapple
10 cups sugar
2 cups Water
Cook until it threads. Add 7 cups coarsely chopped tomatoes and 1 small can pineapple. Cook until jellied and pour into jars.
Scald, peel and chop tomatoes. Cover and simmer at about 10 minutes, stir occasionally.
Put 3 cups of boiled/simmered tomatoes into a large sauce pan. Add lemon juice, rind, and spices to the tomatoes. Stir the sure jell pectin into the tomatoes. (Make sure you use a large pan so this can come to a rolling boil.) Bring the tomatoes to a rolling boil, and stir constantly. At once stir in the sugar and continue to stir, bringing to a full rolling boil ( where the boil can't be stirred down). Then boil hard rolling boil for one minute, stirring constantly.
Skim off foam with metal spoon. Ladle into hot sterilized jars leaving 1/4 inch at tops. Wipe jar rims. Cover jars with hot lids and screw bands on firmly. Let cool. Be sure to check seals. Store in cool dry place. approx 6 jars (8 0z)
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