Just got done canning again

old · Sep 18, 2013

Did 13 pints and 1 quart of Apple pie filling. Took a bit of messing around since the caner only holds 7 jars but got it done and now have home made chicken soup cooking

GordoSD · Sep 18, 2013

How do you do that filling? I have a tree full of Granny Smith apples. Huge, no blem apples.

old · Sep 18, 2013

Well if your going to start being nice and not pull the stuff you have in the past I'll share the recipe. But I do also have at least 5 different ones. You would need to e-mail me so I could scan and then send them to you

David G · Sep 18, 2013

You always make me smile, been a shortage of them lately, so thanks.

old · Sep 18, 2013

Well I am the type pf guy who will help any body if I can but stab me in the back and I can be your worse enemy and know well how to be that also

SweetFeet · Sep 19, 2013

old,

That sounds really good. Will have to go to the orchard and buy a bag of Honey Crisp apples and make a pie as soon as we get our new range - (oven recently died in the old one).

I am always amazed by the number of YT guys who cook and can food. Pretty neat.

Fergienewbee · Sep 19, 2013

Compared to many, I'm a lightweight canner but I personally did 15 pints of salsa, 12 pints of plain tomatoes, 10 pints of spaghetti sauce, and 7 quarts and 9 pints of stewed tomatoes. And I cleaned up all my mess!! Wife canned 60 pints of green beans--I picked and snapped them all--and 10 pints of stewed tomatoes. She put up 36 pints of assorted jams. She works second shift and gets home very late. I also did 4 pints of Dilly beans. Hope she does applesauce this year. Trees are loaded. I think we'll eat good this winter.

Larry

Adirondack case guy · Sep 19, 2013

The wifey has been real busy canning and freezing here also. Every thing from pinto beans to squash. It will cost us more for paper products and soap than food this winter. I have been cutting firewood off and on all summer. Should finish this comming week. Haven't burned a drop of heating oil in 3 yrs.
Pic are of a batch of V8.5 juice, that the wifey made. She has about 50qts of it made so far. We go through about 80qts per year. The next pic is of the wifey picking pinto beans that she canned for chilly and goulash, and last was from last week, cutting wood.
Loren the Acg.

Richard G. · Sep 19, 2013

Old, not one of my 3 canners has been warm this year.
Way to much water. I planted 100 pounds of potatoes and water stood on them until they rotted. Planted green beans 3 times and have not picked the first one. Okra would not grow as it was to wet and cool.
I froze only 100 ears of corn because it had no flavor from all the rain.
Bright spots are the Colossus peas which are putting on lots of pods and my sorghum for syrup which is headed out and about 10 feet tall.
At least I have lots of canned goods from the last few years.
Hope next year will be much better.
Richard in NW SC

GeneMO · Sep 19, 2013

We did our first canning this year as we were overrun with maters. However we plan to do more gardening in the future. Gonna have to in order to suvive.

Adirondack Case Guy, looks like you got yer moneys worth outof that ole pick-em-up truck!

Gne

johnlobb · Sep 19, 2013

I just started canning last year, but I have done 55 quarts and 26 pints of a mix of tomatos with some chopped green pepper and onion mixed in. This makes a GREAT base for chili, spaghetti and soups and stews. I planted some Roma tomatos this year and although I like the little guys, there is not as much fruit off each plant as other varieties so I"m a little short of tomatos. I tried onions this year but I think I got them in the ground too late, they did not get very large. Green peppers did ok, but I had to buy some of them. The best part is I got a Camp Chef single burner LP cooler (60,000 btu) for fathers day and have kept most of the heat out of the house during the canning process. I found out I did not need 60,000 btus, 45,000 or even 30,000 would have been fine.

rustyacres sd · Sep 19, 2013

Hey Gordo. tried to find your place yesterday. you on the west side of the road?

rustyacres sd · Sep 19, 2013

Winding down with the canning.
50+ quarts tomato juice
12 half gallon tomato juice
Salsa (extra hot) and flavorful
diced tomatoes
green beans
carrots
spaghetti sause
canned beef
canned pork
40 quarts vegetable soup base
35 quarts dill pickles
hamburger and sweet pickles.
Not shown is the chili soup base and Green chili soup base
Working on the dried pinto and red kidney beans.
Should be good for the year for the two of us.

old · Sep 19, 2013

I collect cook books and now since I do a lot of canning for many reasons I now collect canning pickling and preserving books when ever I can find them. My garden did poorly this year but since I have been canning when that happens you have what you canned the year before to fall back on which is nice

old · Sep 19, 2013

My garden also did not do well. Spring started out way to cool and wet then in Aug the fist 5 days we had 3 inches of rain per day so we had a flood then it turned hot and dry and by the 1st week of Sept we had gone from a flood to a drought. My green beads are doing very very well but tomato's poorly and my pepper plants the sweet just started setting fruit and the hot have been slow to produce much

old · Sep 19, 2013

I do more then 95% of the cooking in my home. I am what many call an amateur chief and have been honing my skills since I was a teenager. I do a killer lasagne but I do not do it often since it takes a week of simmering the sauce and then the last time over $100 in the stuff to do it. Did 13 cheeses last time and never have learned to do a small batch as in had the oven full 3 times with the pans

SweetFeet · Sep 19, 2013

old,

Your lasagna sounds fantastic!

Sometimes I put together 2 lasagnas - I cook one, but cover the other tightly and freeze it for an easy meal within the next 3-4 weeks. Just pull it out and thaw in the fridge, then bake it. Works real well.

JayinNY · Sep 19, 2013

That sounds good old! I'm so far behind, I have to finish tomatoes, and start apples and pears. We have been working long hours on a good sized job, almost an hour away, so very little time when I get in at night. Lol, oh well what can u do.

old · Sep 19, 2013

Ya BTDT years ago. Would work 8-12 hours a day then come home cut rake and bale hay and then go again. Not sure if being retired is better or not other then you can say well I fell like doing this or that but never ever seem to get done doing it all

old · Sep 19, 2013

Last time I did it I used 13 cheeses and also 13 pans. Bake it all then freeze what is left over and doing it right it will last for over a year. Been doing this and improving the recipe for well over 40 years now. But I am also the one and only person to have that recipe since it is only in my head. Had a chili recipe like that year ago that my mom sat and watch me do and wrote it all down but when her house burned that recipe got lost.

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