Showing posts with label applesauce. Show all posts
Showing posts with label applesauce. Show all posts

Friday, October 15, 2010

And yet more canning

More canning:
8/21, 4 pints Sweet Pepper Jam, Put 'Em Up
8/21, 4 quarter-pints Spicy Tomato Aspic, Put 'Em Up
9/11, 7 pints Quartered Tomatoes/raw pack, uga.edu
9/11, 5? pints Zesty Salsa, Put 'Em Up
9/19, 7 pints Apple Preserves
9/21, 8 pints stewed tomatoes, BBB
10/1, 7 quarts applesauce, BBB...for and with Sarah AJ, using her apples, and using Sara M's Kitchen Aid food grinder and fruit/veg strainer attachments (awesome!)
10/3, 8 pints Snap Beans, fresh, with salt, hot pack, pressure canner (using our fall crop of green and yellow beans; first time canning green beans other than dilly beans)
10/4, 8 pints applesauce, BBB

I mostly record only shelf-stable canned items, but I'm so excited about making things using Sara's KA attachments, plus the ease of freezing things using our new upright freezer, that I'll brag about this too:
10/3 3 pints + 4 half-pints Pear Sauce, frozen, pickyourown.org
10/10 3 pints pumpkin puree, frozen

We are getting a nice stash of food collected in our freezer...berries, green beans, corn, grassfed beef, and the venison Brian bagged during bow hunting season in Buffalo County.

One would think I should be done preserving veggies and fruits by now, but I am making applesauce again today (we picked apples - 3rd time this season - on Tuesday) and if the stars align right, possibly green tomato salsa and/or dilly beans this weekend.

Monday, September 21, 2009

And Yet More Canning

Can't stop me now.  I am on a roll with this canning business.  It's so much easier to do this when I've just done it a few days before, and don't have to consult with the instruction booklet on each detail!  Today I made a second batch of applesauce;  5 pints.  I used the apple peeler that Amanda loaned me.  Last week I didn't quite "get" it, but now that I'm past the learning curve, I love it!  It went so fast!  Fleet Farm has one on sale (and lots of other canning stuff on sale this week!) that looks very much like the Pampered Chef peeler/corer, at a much lower price, so I may go see that in person and pick one up.

Here are my totals at this point, including the recipe and method used:
strawberry jam, 6 pints, pectin box recipe(?), WB
pickled cauliflower, 5 pints, BBB, WB
pizza sauce, 4 pints, Allrecipes, PC
applesauce, 9 pints, Presto PC instruction book, PC
crushed tomatoes, 4 pints, uga.edu, PC

BBB= Ball Blue Book
WB= water bath canning
PC= pressure canning

I have all kinds of quart jars and just can't see myself using them.  Anyone have some pint jars they'd like to swap?