What's Everybody Canning?

[Dani]

my next check is going to buy a weston tomato seeder ,skinner, juicer and a big mouth food processor.

I bought a sauce maker a few years ago. . . . It sure does come in handy when I was making pear & pumpkin butters. Just cook and run thru. You will love it! Mine is the hand cranked so it could be used when off grid. You just never know how life will go one day besides it doesn't take much effort at all.

 

[timmie]

14 quarts taters. when they come off the stove, i have pears ready to go on. while they are cooking, i'll get more taters ready for dehydrators.

 

[Star_Chick]

Last week was carrots, potatoes, and fruit cocktail. This week chicken broth, and black beans!

 

[timmie]

7 pints of pear halves and 3 pints of sliced pears. gotta clean up now and get ready for tomorrow

 

[SheepDog]

Pickles! 16 quarts of dill spears, dill chips and bread and butter chips. And we have more coming from the one cucumber plant.

 

[Star_Chick]

Pickles! 16 quarts of dill spears, dill chips and bread and butter chips. And we have more coming from the one cucumber plant.

I can’t make pickles to save my life! They turn out mushy, over flavored, or just plain disgusting.

 

[snappy1]

I can’t make pickles to save my life! They turn out mushy, over flavored, or just plain disgusting.

Me too, Star-Chick! Good flavor but mushy!

 

[Dani]

Have you tried adding pickling lime or slacked lime for a crisper pickle?

 

[SheepDog]

There are a few things that you can use to keep them crisp. First - Don't cook them! Use a cold pack method. In the bottom of each jar you can place a couple of grape leaves. They have a compound in them that helps. A 1/4 teaspoon of Alum in each quart is sometimes used. You can get similar results using a vegetable crisper (sold with pickling supplies) which is just calcium chloride (a salt substitute). A neighbor just down the road donates grape leaves for us.

 

[Star_Chick]

Have you tried adding pickling lime or slacked lime for a crisper pickle?

I thought lime was poisonous?

 

[Dani]

There is food grade and then there is quick lime.
https://www.wildturmeric.net/uses-of-slaked-lime-hydrated-lime-calcium-hydroxide-pickling-lime/
This link may help explain.

 

[Terri9630]

I like HEB but we don’t have one close.

The closest one to me is about 10hrs away.

 

[timmie]

okay question. i'm wearing my dunce hat; what is HEB?

 

[timmie]

i had an uh-oh moment today. i got my taters ready to can and realized i didn't have anymore quart jars. i do have some at our other place.so since i'm going that way tomorrow i'll stop and get some . in the meantime i just canned them in pint jars as i do have plenty of them.

 

[NannyPatty]

I thought lime was poisonous?

I use food grade lime for my pickles and it works well. You just have to rinse thoroughly with several waters. Also if you are using table salt, that will make pickles and other produce ruin. Use only pickling salt.

Timmie, HEB is a grocery store with a lot of organic stuff . It also owns Central Market health food grocery stores.

 

[timmie]

we got 7 quarts of taters going now and a pot full of rotel tomatoes. as soon as we get cleaned up from that gonna start on pears.

 

[timmie]

4 pints of rotel tomatoes and 3-1/2 quarts pear halves for pear and cheese salad,and 7 pints of pear pie filling.

 

[Terri9630]

okay question. i'm wearing my dunce hat; what is HEB?

A grocery store chain in Texas. I love them.

 

[timmie]

I bought a sauce maker a few years ago. . . . It sure does come in handy when I was making pear & pumpkin butters. Just cook and run thru. You will love it! Mine is the hand cranked so it could be used when off grid. You just never know how life will go one day besides it doesn't take much effort at all.[/
you are right dani,i didn't see that one before as i just had time to do a quick search. i think the hand crank is what i'm going to get.

 

[timmie]

11 quarts taters, 4 pints collards [out of freezer] , 1 quart pear halves and 8 pints pear pie filling. sounds like a lot of pie filling, but hubby and children like fried tarts during november and december.

 

[timmie]

2 1/2 pints collards and 5 quarts taters in the canner, with 7 more quarts waiting. then we get dehydrators filled up. and i will still have taters. i think however this is the last ones we are going to can this year.

 

[Tank-Girl]

2 1/2 pints collards and 5 quarts taters in the canner, with 7 more quarts waiting. then we get dehydrators filled up. and i will still have taters. i think however this is the last ones we are going to can this year.

Have you tried canning potatoes with french onion soup mix Timmie?

 

[timmie]

Have you tried canning potatoes with french onion soup mix Timmie?

yeah, i have. i have enough canned for a couple years,so i'm just going to dehydrate the rest of theml at least what we can't eat fresh.

 

[timmie]

we decided to go ahead and get the rest of the taters done , so we are canning 14 quarts in the canner now. first load is cooling down. that left us about 6 large taters, so those will be tater salad tomorrow.

 

[timmie]

not really canning, but hubby brought in some muscadines we are going to juice so we can make some jelly.

 

[Terri9630]

Taters. Not planning on canning much else until after we move but we go through lots of taters.

 

[joel]

Got green peanut for $1.00 a pound & boiled them.
Did not can them, into the freezer.
Still have a deer & some pork from last fall.

 

[timmie]

7 quarts taters and 10 pints onions.

 

[Amish Heart]

I have some cans of boiled peanuts, but don't know what to do with them. What do you do with them? Eat them straight up?

 

[timmie]

I have some cans of boiled peanuts, but don't know what to do with them. What do you do with them? Eat them straight up?

sure, right out of the can or heat them up.