FarmerDenise
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Canned 7 quarts of dill pickles. I ended up using lemon cukes and apple cukes, since our pickling cukes fizzled out.
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Twelve small jelly jars of Plum Compote.
mrbstephens
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how do you freeze apples? peel, slice, freeze? Or do you do something else to them?VickiLynn said:
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That sounds so refined. What exactly is it?murphysranch said:
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Plum Compote:
7 C diced not peeled plums
4 C sugar
3.5 C raisins (i used old icky ones)
1 orange, sliced thin with rind
1 lemon, sliced thin with rind
Stir together. Heat to boiling, simmer for 20 - 25 min covered.
Stir in 1 C walnuts. I had some Orange Curacaco (sp?) and threw a dash in.
Ladle into pint or jelly jars. Water process.
Its yummy! I can see it over angel food cake, over ice cream, over pound cake.
7 C diced not peeled plums
4 C sugar
3.5 C raisins (i used old icky ones)
1 orange, sliced thin with rind
1 lemon, sliced thin with rind
Stir together. Heat to boiling, simmer for 20 - 25 min covered.
Stir in 1 C walnuts. I had some Orange Curacaco (sp?) and threw a dash in.
Ladle into pint or jelly jars. Water process.
Its yummy! I can see it over angel food cake, over ice cream, over pound cake.
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I did something this morning that I do not recommend and would not admit to anyone else but you experienced canners and I'm curious as to why it worked.
Here's the deal: I worked all weekend processing my late harvest of tomatoes into the most wonderful, fresh tasting tomato sauce EVER. Then I used that sauce to make spaghetti sauce and started canning. But while I was cooking the sauce I wanted to get the canner going so I processed some chicken that we had in the freezer that I was beginning to worry might get freezer burnt as we bought it several months ago. By the time they were done it was WAY past my bedtime and I'd was tired from all the cooking, cleaning and canning so for the first time in my memory I shut the stove off and left the jars in the canner. When I got up this morning four of the jars in the bottom of the canner had not sealed. I gotta tell you I almost never have seal failure so this threw me and I got to thinking it had to have something to do with the slow cooling from being left in the canner. Here's the bad part: I put them BACK in the canner and reprocessed them without changing the lids or anything and I'll be darned if they didn't seal this time!!! Now I realize that the chicken will be a little over processed but I can still use it for gravy since it's in a really, really rich stock but I'm still wondering why that worked that way.
Here's the deal: I worked all weekend processing my late harvest of tomatoes into the most wonderful, fresh tasting tomato sauce EVER. Then I used that sauce to make spaghetti sauce and started canning. But while I was cooking the sauce I wanted to get the canner going so I processed some chicken that we had in the freezer that I was beginning to worry might get freezer burnt as we bought it several months ago. By the time they were done it was WAY past my bedtime and I'd was tired from all the cooking, cleaning and canning so for the first time in my memory I shut the stove off and left the jars in the canner. When I got up this morning four of the jars in the bottom of the canner had not sealed. I gotta tell you I almost never have seal failure so this threw me and I got to thinking it had to have something to do with the slow cooling from being left in the canner. Here's the bad part: I put them BACK in the canner and reprocessed them without changing the lids or anything and I'll be darned if they didn't seal this time!!! Now I realize that the chicken will be a little over processed but I can still use it for gravy since it's in a really, really rich stock but I'm still wondering why that worked that way.
Farmfresh
City Biddy
Yesterday:
Canned 8 quarts of thick roasted tomato and herb marinara sauce.
Canned 3 pints of hot pickled okra.
Canned 3 1/2 pints of habenaro sauce that hubby made.
Canned 2 quarts of tomato juice.
Canned 8 quarts of thick roasted tomato and herb marinara sauce.
Canned 3 pints of hot pickled okra.
Canned 3 1/2 pints of habenaro sauce that hubby made.
Canned 2 quarts of tomato juice.
justusnak
Almost Self-Reliant
Yesterday....7 pints of applesauce...today, 8 more pints of applesauce...and 8 pints of Pumpkin bread. ( made from my own canned pumpkin )
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