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BiscottiQueen · Executive Chef Joined: 25 Nov 2008 Posts: 461

I was just wondering who was canning, what you were canning and any special canning recipe you would like to share?

I am making muscadine grape jelly today. But so far I've made a LOT of jellies and jams, have made many salsa's and tomato sauces as well.

I also canned some sliced peaches and plums in light syrup to use in pies for the holidays.

Here's a muscadine grape for those who haven't seen them. They have a super thick skin you can't eat and lots of seeds. They are the sweetest grape I've ever had, but they are really only good for their juice. (They do make my favorite wines out of these in Duplin County)
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carolyn · Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 8:11 am Post subject: canning

so far i am canning dill pickles, tomato, will be makeing pickle relish to can. sweet bread and butter pickles, made strawberry and rasperry jam and am going to make peach. also plan on canning apple cider in the fall.and pickled beets.
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Babette · Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 8:52 am Post subject:

I made strawberry jam a few times. I had a lot of trouble with consistency. Most of the time it was too thin. I was amazed at all the sugar needed. Who wants to do a canning video for us and we'll put it in our canning mentor area?

BiscottiQueen · Executive Chef Joined: 25 Nov 2008 Posts: 461

Oh man... if I read this 30 minutes ago I would have video's my muscadine jelly making!

I'll take some photos anyways!
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BiscottiQueen · Executive Chef Joined: 25 Nov 2008 Posts: 461

Ok, I removed the image from my site, and re-uploaded it.

That seemed to have worked.

Those dang grapes are 1/2 the size of my chickens' eggs!
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DajaD · Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 11:51 am Post subject:

Gigi421 · Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2009 4:29 pm Post subject:

My little helpers getting the beans ready.

Raspberry Jam I made last month.

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carolyn · Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 11:52 am Post subject: canned

today i canned a 1/2 bushel of pears i got from my mother in law still have a lot of tomatos to can and dill pickles to make. and hope fullyget some peaches to
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BiscottiQueen · Executive Chef Joined: 25 Nov 2008 Posts: 461

I did manage to do sliced peaches and pears. I got everything ready to cook to my salsa tomorrow along with some hot pepper jelly. I can't wait to photo and share all that!

I'm kind of bummed... I've sold more then 50% of what I've canned so far, and I'm trying so hard to keep up!

I may not have much for winter this year... but a girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do... worst time in our life's for hubby to get a speeding ticket out of the state and I had to hire a lawyer who obviously isn't struggling for $$$! Sheesh!
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carolyn · Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 5:46 pm Post subject: my tomatos

my 4 diffrent kinds of tomatos in my garden and some canned ones

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