ScrubbieLady Posted July 20, 2009 Share Posted July 20, 2009 put up tomatoes again. Only 5 pints this time. I have a lot of tomatoes, but not all are completely ripe. Link to comment
Jake Posted July 20, 2009 Share Posted July 20, 2009 7 quarts and 16 pints of pinto beans and 6 pints of red current jelly. Link to comment
Josephine Posted July 21, 2009 Share Posted July 21, 2009 I canned 3 pints and 1 half pint of blueberry jam. I don't know if I like making jam. 2 hours, much of it babysitting the jam mix as I waited for it to reach 220 degrees. B-O-R-I-N-G. And all I have for it is 3.5 pints. I'm spoiled by how simple it is to can meat (and veg, kind of). Stick the meat in the jar, seal it up, listen for the jiggle, and you've got 18 pints. Link to comment
Violet Posted July 21, 2009 Share Posted July 21, 2009 Josephine, That is why I like to use commercial pectin. That, and I have to have sugar free. I use Pomona's Universal pectin for my sugar free jams and jellies. I do use some Sure Jel for my husband's grape jelly , as this is how he prefers it. With the pectin you get a higher yield from your fruit, plus it is quick. Link to comment
Josephine Posted July 21, 2009 Share Posted July 21, 2009 Violet, I do have some pectin, I'll have to try that next. Thanks for the tip. Link to comment
Jingles Posted July 22, 2009 Share Posted July 22, 2009 I get to post again YAY!!! Today I canned 8 pints of garlic pickles! And everyone sealed so I'm a happy canner. This whole canning thing is a huge trip down memory lane for me since I canned with my Mom for 20 + years and now that she is gone I am doing everything on my own. It's not quite the same, but I think Mom's up there helping me remember stuff. She and I used to can 20 or 30 quarts of dill pickles each summer and my job was to pack the pickles in the jar. She used to say I was the best pickle packer in the East. She always acted amazed at how fast and many pickles I could sqeeze in those jars. Now I know why. There are a lot of those little buggers to get in there! I look so forward to opening up a jar of my very first all made by me pickles. I hope they are as good as Mom's were. Link to comment
sas58 Posted July 23, 2009 Share Posted July 23, 2009 Today I canned 15 pints of peas and 1 pint of hot peppers. Link to comment
Cat Posted July 23, 2009 Author Share Posted July 23, 2009 Wow... so much, and so many!!! This thread has reached over 200 posts, so it's on to the *NEXT* one!!! link to Part 6 Link to comment
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