This year I just stuck with the two I know best... I would love to try a different jam next year as the jam season is a bit slow...
Strawberry- picked 1 flat this year and used a good part of it for the jars of jam. I ended up with 5 large jars of jam and 7 regular sized jars of jam.
Raspberry- 2 quarts is enough for a batch of jam. This year I did 10-12 regular jars, 4 large jars and two small jars.
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Pickles, pickles, more pickles and relish
We planted three plants this year and the cukes are coming out of our ears! Here is what I have done so far:
8 jars dill on 7/26
5 jars dill on 8/2
Dill- watch for height of cukes, some jars did not seal because the cukes were too high. The dill were easy to do piecemeal, because the brine is super easy to make. Next year- try fresh dill from the garden.
Bread and Butter: 2 double batches this year= 14 jars(ish, I already gave some away so I'm not quite sure)
Sweet pickles: ~12 cups of cukes yields 6 jars of sweet pickles. Tried the recipie from the ball jar book (blue one) for unbrined pickles. Cut cukes into chips using bread knife to make ridges. Will report back later on taste :)
The zucchini relish we made a few years ago was great, but with all the extra cukes I did have to make cucumber relish. The Ball book recipe yields a lot of relish, and I had to refrigerate some because it didn't get processed. The food processing took a LONG TIME. Must get a bigger processor for next year.
8 jars dill on 7/26
5 jars dill on 8/2
Dill- watch for height of cukes, some jars did not seal because the cukes were too high. The dill were easy to do piecemeal, because the brine is super easy to make. Next year- try fresh dill from the garden.
Bread and Butter: 2 double batches this year= 14 jars(ish, I already gave some away so I'm not quite sure)
Sweet pickles: ~12 cups of cukes yields 6 jars of sweet pickles. Tried the recipie from the ball jar book (blue one) for unbrined pickles. Cut cukes into chips using bread knife to make ridges. Will report back later on taste :)
The zucchini relish we made a few years ago was great, but with all the extra cukes I did have to make cucumber relish. The Ball book recipe yields a lot of relish, and I had to refrigerate some because it didn't get processed. The food processing took a LONG TIME. Must get a bigger processor for next year.
Monday, August 9, 2010
Green Beans
This year: I have put up 36 pints of green beans as of Aug. 9
Notes for next year:
Four quarts of cut green beans provides more than enough for a "batch" in the pressure cooker- 9 jars.
Watch the pressure... keep oven on 8/9 until you reach 11 pounds then decrease to 5 slowly. This helped keep the water in the jars :)
Notes for next year:
Four quarts of cut green beans provides more than enough for a "batch" in the pressure cooker- 9 jars.
Watch the pressure... keep oven on 8/9 until you reach 11 pounds then decrease to 5 slowly. This helped keep the water in the jars :)
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