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Post by izitmidnight on Jan 28, 2014 16:58:09 GMT -5
So, what are you canning?
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Post by whistech on Jan 28, 2014 21:34:34 GMT -5
Dill pickles are on the list and so is romano green beans if they grow and make here. It is the first year I am trying them. I grew contender green beans last year and they were extremely productive and taste very good, but I'm looking for a more "beany tasting" green bean.
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Post by wing on Feb 6, 2014 13:00:21 GMT -5
We don't can here in the UK we bottle, and my favouites a Jms Chutneys and Pickles.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Feb 6, 2014 13:24:47 GMT -5
Perhaps "canning" versus "bottling" is just a difference in terminology?
Most of the time home "canning" in the U.S. actually refers to preserving foods in sealed glass jars. (No, I don't know why we call it "canning" instead of "jarring" or "bottling." Perhaps it is a holdover from a time when most people used metal cans for home food preservation?)
I looked over at the Amazon.uk site and the "preserving jars" sold in the U.K. seem similar to the jars used in the U.S., except that most of the U.K. jars are based on metric measurements.
Having said that, there are metal cans and can sealers available for home use. But cans are not used nearly as much as glass jars in home food preservation. So if someone in the U.S. refers to "canning," it's very likely that they are actually using jars.
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Post by w8in4dave on Feb 6, 2014 15:20:27 GMT -5
I am planning on Making my own Maple Syrup That is supposed to be some time in Feb! Pffttt if the weather ever breaks! Other than that I am def. Going to be putting up some Salsa, Tomatoes, Some Tomato Jam, Hot sauce. Ohhhh Some things will be last minute stuff so I can sell it at my Xmas craft shop
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Post by coppice on Feb 7, 2014 8:41:20 GMT -5
I am planning on Making my own Maple Syrup That is supposed to be some time in Feb! Pffttt if the weather ever breaks! Other than that I am def. Going to be putting up some Salsa, Tomatoes, Some Tomato Jam, Hot sauce. Ohhhh Some things will be last minute stuff so I can sell it at my Xmas craft shop So Wendy there is a spigot that you pound into a drilled hole in your maple trees and a pail (any pail will do) If'n your a reinactor little tin hats to keep snow and junk out of the buckets. Plus the biggest pot you can scrounge up. Set your pot on the parlor stove and let it simmer. 40 gallons of sap will make barely one gallon of syrup. The bigs use a hose system instead of lugging around buckets of sap. And electro-phoresys to skim some of the water out of sap. But those are big-boy toys and cost thousands of dollars... Don't wait for a warm day and cold night. Sap is gonna run when it is ready, and not to your clock. Get set up now.
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Post by w8in4dave on Feb 7, 2014 12:32:36 GMT -5
I have to get the stuff I have a friend that is going to help me He does ALOT of Syrup It is -20º F wind chill. No sap sucking today
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Post by izitmidnight on Feb 11, 2014 20:52:36 GMT -5
On a cold winter day, nothing warms the kitchen up better than canning 12 pints of chicken soup! Can't hardly wait for it to seal and cool. So I can eat it....
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Post by gulfcoastguy on Feb 16, 2014 1:17:03 GMT -5
I usually can bbque sauce and have canned pickled butternut squash. If we have an over abundance of blueberries this year I'm looking for some variety of low sugar preserve. I've done kosher dill pickles in the past but we usually prefer to plant slicing dukes. Tomatoes we have been freezing and the same with peppers.
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Post by sorellina on Feb 16, 2014 11:29:46 GMT -5
At this time of year I'm more apt to use the pressure canner to make soups and chill than the water batch canner for jellies and sauces. I made blueberry maple syrup just before Christmas for baked French toast and I have canned that before. Once I get the first big batch of seeds going, I may can a batch of that in half-litres.
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Post by kctomato on Feb 16, 2014 11:51:37 GMT -5
SORE!
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Post by w8in4dave on Feb 19, 2014 0:18:23 GMT -5
Hmmmm canning Chili... sounds like a great idea! I may have to do that!
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Post by bestofour on Feb 19, 2014 8:35:12 GMT -5
I used to can in my previous life but my ex must have gotten the canner in the settlement cuz I don't know where it is. I'm going to get a new one and will put up green beans and tomatoes. My husband and I were talking this morning about a good way to save blueberries because they are sort of soggy coming from the freezer this year.
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Post by meandtk on Feb 20, 2014 11:47:50 GMT -5
I used to can in my previous life but my ex must have gotten the canner in the settlement cuz I don't know where it is. I'm going to get a new one and will put up green beans and tomatoes. My husband and I were talking this morning about a good way to save blueberries because they are sort of soggy coming from the freezer this year. Do you think they would dry well? Just curious. I think we'll can green beans and peas. Lotsa salsa, too. Anyone can cabbage? Is it do-able?
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Post by izitmidnight on Feb 22, 2014 1:25:14 GMT -5
I used to can in my previous life but my ex must have gotten the canner in the settlement cuz I don't know where it is. I'm going to get a new one and will put up green beans and tomatoes. My husband and I were talking this morning about a good way to save blueberries because they are sort of soggy coming from the freezer this year. Yes, you can put blueberries up by waterbath canning, using juice, syrup or water. If you want the instructions, I'll be happy to share. I also put them up as pie filling. Bestofour, do you grow your own blueberries, or is there a farm you go to? The farm I used to go to in Midland closed a couple years ago. Am looking for a new place to get blueberries thus year.
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Post by bestofour on Feb 25, 2014 10:07:56 GMT -5
izitmidnight, I have 2 blueberry bushes. The mockingbirds came to my house last year and ate everything in sight. I'm going to try and cover stuff this year because they have stayed around. I think it's interesting that they moved to my yard. We've lived here since 2000 and I've seen a mockingbird once in a while but not every day until last year. I don't know how to get rid of them and they run the other birds from the feeders. I would love to find a place to get a bunch of blueberries to can so I can just eat mine from the bush - if they produce. They're not that old and don't product a lot to start with. The mockies ate my strawberries too.
Please share your instructions. I would like to make blueberry jam too.
meandtk, do you mean like dehydrating? I bet they would.
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Post by bestofour on Aug 30, 2014 12:03:47 GMT -5
izitmidnight There is a blueberry farm in Monroe on Greene Road. Hope you already found this out since blueberries is all they have and are only opened til they are gone. My new bushes did produce this year and I canned some blueberry jam. It's good. meandtk I went ahead and froze some this year too. I don't know how to keep them from being a little soft after being frozen but I'll hope for the best. I like them in oatmeal. Also canned some green beans and tomatoes, also froze some tomatoes. I wish I had thought to can squash before it was mostly all gone. Oh well. Next year. Has anyone ever canned squash?
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Post by meandtk on Aug 30, 2014 14:52:01 GMT -5
Never canned squash, but my nephew's in-laws have. Not sure of their process. Canned dill pickles, sweet pickle relish, and green omato relish. Froze some zipper cream peas. Planning fall garden now.
Anyone know of a way to preserves sunchokes, if they produce well?
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Post by izitmidnight on Oct 6, 2014 18:05:42 GMT -5
Sunchokes keep best left in the soil. Dig them as you need them....
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Post by mullerslanefarm on Apr 2, 2015 12:38:11 GMT -5
This is what I canned in 2015:
Apple Juice Apple Pie Filling Apple Sauce Beans, Green Cabbage: Sauerkraut Carrots Chicken Chicken Gizzards Chicken Stock Corn Corn Cob Jelly Elderberry Syrup Grape Jelly Grape Juice Mushroom Mushroom Broth Pickle Relish, Dill Pickles, Bread & Butter chip Pickles, Bread & Butter whole Pickles, Dill (chip) Pickles, Dill (spear) Pickles, Dill (whole) Pickles, Kosher Dill (whole) Pickles, Kosher Dill (whole) w/ calcium chloride Pickles, Kosher Dill (spear) w/ calcium chloride Plum Jam Potatoes, Sweet in light syrup Potatoes, White Tomatilla Salsa Verde Tomatilla Salsa Verde Faviola Tomato, Green sliced Tomato Ketchup Tomato Marina Tomato Onion Conserve Tomato Salsa, Red Tomato Sauce Basil Tomato Whole Tomato (stewed)
All told, 682 jars
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Post by stratcat on Apr 2, 2015 13:39:53 GMT -5
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Apr 2, 2015 14:29:41 GMT -5
Wow indeed! You must not have to spend much at the grocery store.
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Post by mullerslanefarm on Apr 2, 2015 14:46:06 GMT -5
No we don't.
We also raise all our own meat (beef, pork & various poultry), have egg layers & a couple honeybee hives.
We used to have our own milk cow, but with the children grown and gone we can't handle 3-4 gallons of milk a day, even with making cheeses & butter and yogurt and feeding to the pigs.
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Post by mullerslanefarm on Apr 2, 2015 14:51:19 GMT -5
This is what I had left from the previous year's canning (and not listed above)
Apple Sauce, Cinnamon Beef, Cubed Beef, Ground Beans, Green Grape Juice Peaches Peppers Sweet Bananas, Pickled Pickle Relish, Dill Pickles, Bread & Butter chip Pickles, Bread & Butter whole Pickles, Dill (chip) Pickles, Dill (spear) Pickles, Dill (whole) Tomato Juice Tomato Juice (stewed) Tomato Sauce Watermelon Rind Pickles Watermelon Rind Preserves
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Post by mullerslanefarm on Apr 2, 2015 14:53:48 GMT -5
I use a spreadsheet to keep track of what I have canned. In January, I take inventory of what I have left so I know what is needed to be grown (last year I only had 150 jars left)
I try to can for at least 2 years of canned goods. You never know when there will be a bad year. Last year most of the blooms from our fruit trees succumbed to a late frost.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Apr 2, 2015 16:11:33 GMT -5
Wow, nice. You sure have a lot going on! And you are organized about it, too. You are a homesteader, right? I am trying to diversify the selection of fruit trees and bushes in my small suburban yard because like you said, bad years happen. I figure even in a bad year, some things will probably do okay. Plus having a variety of fruit means that I get harvests spread over more of the year instead of just a few weeks. Just curious, have you considered a milk goat to get milk for cheeses and yogurt? I understand that a single goat produces a good amount of milk for a couple or a small family. Not that I know anything more about it than what I've read...suburban yards in cities with a "no farm animals" ordinance aren't a good place to get hands-on experience.
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Post by mullerslanefarm on Apr 3, 2015 13:14:53 GMT -5
Laura_in_FL, Yes we're "homesteaders" but not in the "Little House on the Prairie" way out in the middle of no where sense. More like "The Waltons" (with attitude!) We have just shy of 11 acres. On our northern border, we have a subdivision. To the east, south & west we have corn/soybean fields. We live in a 100+ year old house that we've added on. We have modern appliances, gas & electric piped/wired in. Have our own septic & water and the solar system should be completed in a few months. Some good friends of ours 'homesteaded' on 1/3 acre in the Chicago suburbs for many, many years before moving to the MO Ozarks. They had a couple laying hens and plenty of meat rabbits. Homesteading is more a way of thinking about being as sufficient as you can where you are, then it means living in the middle of no where. Sounds like you are a homesteader as well! Goats ... errr .... ummm ... just No! We are not goat people! We did try goats for a while, but they are just not for us!
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Post by izitmidnight on Apr 4, 2015 1:10:14 GMT -5
Wow! You are one lean, mean, canning machine! , been working on canning soup over the winter. Summer produce starts in a few weeks with strawberries....
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Post by mullerslanefarm on Apr 4, 2015 22:49:49 GMT -5
izitmidnight We are still a few weeks away from asparagus ... strawberries won't be here for another couple of months!
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Post by izitmidnight on Apr 4, 2015 23:43:00 GMT -5
Been eating fresh asparagus for three weeks now! It will be time to stop soon. Don't have a big enough patch to can it yet.
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