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Post by snuffy on Jun 11, 2013 12:46:17 GMT -5
Canned my first batch of tomatoes this morning.  I use these in all my stews,chilis,spaghetti sauce.Couple more weeks and our season will be over. Then will get back to rocks,maybe. snuffy |
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Post by jamesp on Jun 11, 2013 13:05:10 GMT -5
You must buy jars by the case.How many jars will you put up?
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Post by snuffy on Jun 11, 2013 13:57:29 GMT -5
You must buy jars by the case.How many jars will you put up? James,I didn't have to buy many.Had lots of them from my mothers days of canning,some probably over 50 years old. I try to have 40 quarts on hand after the growing season. snuffy |
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Post by grayfingers on Jun 11, 2013 14:15:57 GMT -5
Dang, I just set my plants out this last weekend! Looking great, I am still working on finishing eating up canned maters from a couple years ago. I grow a large canning garden every couple years to stock up for whatever. . . and then just grow a smaller fresh eatin' garden between years. I too had a lot of canning jars, then inherited several hundred more. I'm set.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2013 14:45:01 GMT -5
What else do you can?
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Post by grayfingers on Jun 11, 2013 15:05:04 GMT -5
Scott, I see you are living 'Dangerously', hahaha Not sure if your question was for me or Snuffy or both. . . I can peeled tomatoes, pre-seasoned sauce, salsa, homemade apple pie filling, apple sauce, apple butter, LOTS of green beans, corn, pickled beets, plums,all manner of jellies, jams and syrups made from red currents, strawberries, plums, Juneberries, huckleberries, raspberries, chokecherries. . . also pressure cook wild game bones, and can the resulting stew stock. I also can cases of quarts of finished stews, meat/rice dishes, etc. for a "rainy" day. Change it all out every few years.
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Post by snuffy on Jun 11, 2013 15:32:34 GMT -5
Dang Bill,you do can don't ya!  I do just the maters now,freeze quite a bit other ,but that wont do when the power no longer flows! snuffy |
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Post by jamesp on Jun 11, 2013 15:42:57 GMT -5
Wow.That type of self sufficiency is rewarding.Impressive that you guys put food up like that.
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Post by grayfingers on Jun 11, 2013 16:46:39 GMT -5
It was the way I was raised. Both parents were born in cabins on homesteads. They were depression children their entire lives. (Lifestyle)
We ate from the garden, all of our meat came from the mountains, rivers and streams. I never saw beef in my parents house! Ever. My mother would keep a 6x12 foot room fully stocked. I spent half my work life as a chef, the later as a grower for a local greenhouse, so it kinda comes natural. . .
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2013 18:38:50 GMT -5
I was asking both of you. Nice to see your list. One of my favorite blogs that I read daily is Jackie Clay. She literally wrote the book about canning, but I have never tried my hand. If I thought wifey and kidlet would eat the food I can I would give it a try. Sadly, they will not. Snuffy, great thread! |
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Post by Fossilman on Jun 12, 2013 19:26:51 GMT -5
Nice canned tomatoes Snuffy............We just put our plants out a few weeks ago,be a bit before I can anything...
My wife and I can all our veggies too,plus Tammy puts up lots of jams and jellies...This year I'm going to can meat too (with pressure cooker)..I make saugage,jerky and put up a deer or two if I get lucky might put an elk up this fall.
Going to can all my jalopeno's this year,pickle them I guess you call it..LOL
Its nice to still do that kind of stuff,its work,lots of work,but you know its fresh and no chemicals!
I usually make huge batches of BBQ sauces,pizza sauces,taco sauces and pasta sauces,usually in pints...
Make our own pizza dough too(freeze it),breads and all the such...Syrups,just a few kinds,mostly blackberry and chokecherry.
Even make my own spices now,fresh ground from our growings...Plus my famous "Dragons Breath",six different mixes of hot peppers (I dry myself and grind)...
Its endless what you can do if you put your mind to it...LOL
As the few here have said,we inherited canning jars from generations past too..
Great thread Snuffy.........Sounds like good eatings at your house too..Thumbs up
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Post by snuffy on Jun 12, 2013 19:43:10 GMT -5
Fossilman,its great to hear your canning activities.I started gardening when I got married.At that time,I was the youngest one in the area to have one,lots of older folks did.Over the years,the oldsters have passed,and now I'm the old one.No youngsters do it now,hard to hold a hoe in your hand with a cell phone or game machine in it!
I used to can more variety when my uncle had a huge garden and gave me excess produce,but hes gone.
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Post by Fossilman on Jun 13, 2013 10:44:16 GMT -5
Fossilman,its great to hear your canning activities.I started gardening when I got married.At that time,I was the youngest one in the area to have one,lots of older folks did.Over the years,the oldsters have passed,and now I'm the old one.No youngsters do it now,hard to hold a hoe in your hand with a cell phone or game machine in it! I used to can more variety when my uncle had a huge garden and gave me excess produce,but hes gone. snuffy You got that right Snuffy!!! This younger generation is about a lazy bunch(yes that encludes my young un's too).. They love Tammy's jelly,she tells them to come on over and she will teach them how to make it..They just roll their eyes.. Same goes for my BBQ sauces,I'll teach,but no students..LOL My "Brother In Law" has two boys about in their mid 20's..Both married,they like doing the old ways,canning,hunting,fishing,prcessing their stuff. The youngest boy just bought a place outside of town here and they have chickens,gardens,fruit trees and hunting grounds...Both cook,can and process their own game.. So I guess there are the few that are trying... I was taught at a very young age(about 3 or 4 years old),that canning your goods and processing your game was apart of our life!!! Dad,Mom,Aunts,Uncles,Grandparents,they all did it,so I thought it was a part of everyones life! We tell the kids,in about ten years or so,we might be getting to the stage in life to where we won't be doing this anymore,so the goodies will stop!!! Than watch the whinning!! LOL God welling,we will keep doing it till we just can't.... |
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Post by billg22 on Jun 13, 2013 11:42:48 GMT -5
Oh, Oh. My tomato plants have been going for a while now. Working salads now. I soon will have the problem of too many tomatos. I guess I will have to empty the rocks out of the mason jars . . . . .
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Post by rockpickerforever on Jun 13, 2013 12:28:42 GMT -5
Haha, Bill! Time to get canning those 'maters.
Mike, I'm about ready to make another batch of the jalapeno jelly, I've got just one small jar left. This will be about the sixth time I've made it, including a couple double batches (learned the hard way you don't add the Suregel to more than one recipe's worth at a time! - could've read the label, but noooo, who reads labels?) . Jean
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Post by Fossilman on Jun 13, 2013 13:05:50 GMT -5
Haha, Bill! Time to get canning those 'maters. Mike, I'm about ready to make another batch of the jalapeno jelly, I've got just one small jar left. This will be about the sixth time I've made it, including a couple double batches (learned the hard way you don't add the Suregel to more than one recipe's worth at a time! - could've read the label, but noooo, who reads labels?) . Jean Tammy makes the jellies around this house....Jalopeno jelly is so good! But if you want a bit of a kick,try Habanero jelly,OMG its soooooooooooooo good and flavorful!!! Instead of three Jalopenos to a recipe,just add two Habaneros...You will never look back...Thumbs up.. My wife Tammy has wasted a few recipes by not following what the package "Suregel" said too,so your not alone on that matter..LOL A story to this subject too: We use one kettle for our jelly making,but Tammy was in a hurry one day to boil eggs and grabbed the jelly kettle,put a dozen eggs in boiling water and after a few minutes we were gaggin',tearing up and coughing!!! The oils from the peppers had seeped into the kettle from so many batches of hot jelly being made with it!!! LMAO!(The heat and hot water set it off!) The eggs didn't get ruined "thank God"....But lesson learned,no matter how much you scrub a pan with pepper oils in it,its there to stay....LOL |
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Post by cardiobill on Jun 13, 2013 14:02:13 GMT -5
yummmmmmmmm Snuffy
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Post by rockpickerforever on Jun 14, 2013 11:35:17 GMT -5
ACH! Cough, cough!! Jalopenos are on the boil in cranberry juice cocktail and vinegar... Hack, cough! It's times like these that I wish I'd have kept just one Coleman stove, so I could do this outside. But it's sooooo worth it. Mike, I'm making twice the amount of juice (so I don't have to don the gloves again, but will only add the pectin to one recipe at a time  ). I've got nine jalapenos in there, cut in quarters, will the seeds left in. And for a little added kick, a couple of dried bits of manzano pepper. Habaneros pale in comparison (heat wise) to those puppies! Oops, timer's calling, gotta go!! Jean |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2013 12:49:12 GMT -5
.But lesson learned,no matter how much you scrub a pan with pepper oils in it,its there to stay....LOL Gotta love a cast iron pan seasoned with habanero oils! Scramble some eggs in that! |
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Post by Pat on Jun 20, 2013 0:12:46 GMT -5
You guys are impressive!
I learned how to make jam about 35 years ago when we moved here and we had the fruit trees. Since then we've added Marion Blackberries and more fruit trees. Every summer I make apricot jam and blackberry jam.
It's very worthwhile. Tasty.
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I do just the maters now,freeze quite a bit other ,but that wont do when the power no longer flows!
). I've got nine jalapenos in there, cut in quarters, will the seeds left in. And for a little added kick, a couple of dried bits of manzano pepper. Habaneros pale in comparison (heat wise) to those puppies! Oops, timer's calling, gotta go!! Jean
