I made spaghetti sauce over the weekend. It was a three-day project!
Saturday: buy tomatoes at the Farmer's Market, give self pep talk about canning
Sunday: blanch, peel, boil, strain, sautee, simmer (the simmering took about 9 hours, I kid you not! - but I had the temp too low)
Monday: simmer a bit more, pressure can 6 pints of spaghetti sauce, eat leftovers for dinner
Here are my totals at this point, including the recipe and method used:
strawberry jam, 6/09, 6 pints, pectin box recipe(?), WB
pickled cauliflower, 7/09, 5 pints, BBB, WB
pizza sauce, 9/20/09, 4 pints, Allrecipes, PC
applesauce, 9/15/09 and 9/21/09, 9 pints, Presto PC instruction book, PC
crushed tomatoes, 4 pints, PC
spaghetti sauce (20 lbs of tom.), 9/28/09, 6 pints, PC
BBB= Ball Blue Book
WB= water bath canning
PC= pressure canning
If there's one thing I've learned from this year's canning experiences, it's that it really is okay and a good thing to do the tasks in segments. It doesn't all have to be done in one five-hour shot! (And that's a good thing, because with kids, it can't be done in a five-hour shot!)
I keep thinking that I may be done with canning for the year, but then I think how nice it would be to have a few more pints of something on the shelves. (Four measly pints of pizza sauce? We can blast through that in one month, easily!) So who knows. I do want to pick apples one more time this year. We shall see.
Showing posts with label canning tips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label canning tips. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)