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Viva_La_Revolution (26,056 posts) Fri Sep 21, 2012, 11:10 PM
Jams, Jellies and Butters...
This is my first year canning, and I think I might be addicted.
Big batches-
Plum preserves from my neighbor's tree
Watermelon Jelly
Pickled Watermelon rinds
Apple Sauce
Strawberry Jam
Mini-batches-
Apple Butter
Pear Butter
Tomatoes
Pickled cherry tomatoes
Cherry Jam
What else should I try?
I dunno. Grape jelly or jam, strawberry jelly or jam, fills the bill for franksolich, who gets them at the grocery store.
Easier, cheaper, quicker, and cleaner.
If it's home-made, franksolich prefers corn-cob jelly, a prairie delicacy that for some reason never gets onto shelves of grocery stores.
grasswire (35,263 posts) Sat Sep 22, 2012, 01:34 AM
1. did you make your apple butter with cider?
I'm sitting on about ten pounds of apples and have a LOT of applesauce already. Was thinking about making apple butter; the vintage New England cookbooks call for cider in the recipe.
Viva_La_Revolution (26,056 posts) Sat Sep 22, 2012, 10:47 AM
4. not for this batch...
I just used a mix of reds, galas, grannys and the few nasty little ugly apples that have dropped from my own trees already (bad spots removed).
4 cups applesauce (just apples and a little water to get them started)
2 cups sugar
2 t. cinnamon
1 t. nutmeg
1 t. cloves
1/8 t. cardamom (instead of the allspice the recipe listed.)
I doubled the batch and used the crock pot to cook it down. y***y
grasswire (35,263 posts) Sat Sep 22, 2012, 01:35 AM
2. how about some spiced apple rings?
They are a great accessory to a Thanksgiving platter.
That's really odd; the pie-and-jam primitive does Thanksgiving, yet one of her best friends, the now-gone Mrs. Alfred Packer the hippywife primitive, doesn't do Thanksgiving, because hippyhubby Wild Bill doesn't want God in the house.
The empressof all (27,507 posts) Sat Sep 22, 2012, 03:38 PM
5. Do you make them?
I remember the red ones from the jar. I haven't seen them since I moved to the West Coast? Do you have a tried and true recipe....Now I have to google...
grasswire (35,263 posts) Sat Sep 22, 2012, 04:26 PM
6. not lately
I did make spiced crabapples last year. A family member requested them.
Viva_La_Revolution (26,056 posts) Sat Sep 29, 2012, 11:42 AM
7. Oh yessss!
I haven't had those in years Just picked the apples from my 1 good tree, they are HUGE. I really don't think most would fit into a jar. I might have to use pieces.
I think the tree tapped in to a spring cause some of the biggest have water core even though we haven't had rain for 2 months. on the plus side they are super sweet
Le Taz Hot (12,646 posts) Sat Sep 29, 2012, 01:36 PM
9. The world is your Mason Jar . . .
My name is LTH and I'm a serial canner . . .
This year:
pickled peppers
raspberry preserves
blackberry port jam
blackberry preserves
carrots
tomatoes
green beans
mango jelly
plums
potatoes
salsa
marinara sauce
peaches
bread and butter pickles
After 40 years of canning I finally actually bought a really good book about canning and contained recipes of things I had no idea you could can. The book: "Ball Blue Book Guide to Preserving."
It includes a huge amount of information not only canning but freezing and drying foods.
grasswire (35,263 posts) Sat Sep 29, 2012, 04:46 PM
10. we can't stop eating our bread and butter pickles
Tomorrow I have to pick up another crate of cucumbers for a 5th batch.
Just delicious.
