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Yesterday when I was doing chores, there was a poor desperate honey bee looking for something to eat in my bucket of chicken feed. Too soon for those to wake up. There are no flowers in bloom now.

Made (sort of) blueberry pie filling today. Grocery store had blueberries for 99 cents a pint the other day! I used a few of those plus a few quart baggies I had in my freezer. Not too happy with the recipe I used. Was this one: https://nchfp.uga.edu/how/can_02/can_pie/blueberry_filling.html I...

Yesterday was sunny, and today is a beautiful sunny day as well. So nice for a change! Really ought to do something outside, but tackling the hoard of cardboard boxes in the basement is on the agenda for today. Maybe after that’s done I’ll transfer basement chicks outside to the coop.

Here’s the beef broth. Cooked it Friday, canned it Saturday. I actually canned some of it in the GoWISE because I didn’t want to wait around to run two batches through the Presto. The GoWISE is a 12 quart, and I was able to fit 4 quart jars and the half pint jar in it. 2 of the pint jars didn’t...

Todays adventure: beef stock! Steak and rib bones I’ve been saving in my freezer, veggies, salt, pepper, and water to the fill line of my 12 quart GoWISE pressure cooker. Going to pressure cook it on low for at least 3 hours, maybe longer. Whether I can it today or tomorrow depends on how long...

Apricot nectar/purée This is from a 3 pound bag of dried apricots I got at Costco. Nowhere can I find those little cans of apricot nectar to buy unless I want to pay gouger prices on Amazon. Every once in a while a recipe calls for some, or I just want some to drink. So, I made my own! Next...

That is a great idea! I will see what I can find.

Today is kidney beans! I really love using this Presto canner. For several years I’ve been intending to learn to pressure can. I had found an old Mirro canner at Goodwill, and I’ve been using it to water bath can. But I was just afraid to try pressure canning in it because I assume the seal is...

The Lions came so close! Maybe next year.

Grapefruit jam!

Oh, good tip! In my reading, I did come across that when blanching for freezing, you want to plunge them into ice water after the 10 minutes of boiling in order to stop them cooking further. Obviously you can’t do that if your goal is to hot pack them. But your method sounds like a good...

It’s like they are all varying degrees between chunks with a little mush at the bottom, to half and half chunks and mush, to all mush with just a little chunks. I bet it has to do with how long the later chunks sat in the hot pot while I scooped out the first chunks when packing the jars. Ok...

I’ve been doing some further research this morning. I saw where they said that about russets. I also saw where they talked about too much starch being a problem. And two sources said to use fresh boiling water to put in the jars and NOT the starchy cooking water. The Ball blue book said to ladle...

I have a feeling these are going to be mush. The instructions that came with my canner said to cut them in half inch chunks. (?!) Way too much work and way too small! Ball blue book said to just quarter any potatoes that were larger than 2”. Then boil 10 minutes before hot packing into jars...

So I don’t like marmalade because of the bits of peel in it. A couple years ago I was trying to find an orange jam or jelly recipe that didn’t call for the peel, and all I could find out was that the peel was necessary for the pectin it contains. Now, however, when I looked up canning mandarin...

Orange jelly today. It took 5 lbs of navel oranges and 3 lbs of mandarin oranges (minus 3 of the navel that had started getting moldy) to make the 5 cups of juice the recipe called for. I hope it sets up. It has really good flavor. Like orange suckers.

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Well one of the chicken jars didn’t seal, so I put that one in the fridge. I tasted it at lunch time, and it was quite good, even without salt. Maybe a little dry for eating straight. But probably fine for using in recipes. I don’t have canning salt, and I read that regular salt isn’t...

Same here. 🙇‍♀️ And, I prefer canned green beans but he prefers frozen. 🤷🏼‍♀️ Oh well. Yesterday I canned chicken for the first time! Love this canner! Plan for today is mandarin oranges.

First batch in my Presto, 5 quarts of chicken broth from my freezer.