A new skill - Canning Fruit! Do you?

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Recently I attended a class on canning fruits. The last two nights I've been practicing by making Blackberry Jam and Blueberry Jam. Attached is my photo of my results.

Next I'm attending a class on canning Tomatoes, Sauces, and Salsa.

Do any of you can? I'd love to see photos of your efforts.
 

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Sadly, its a dying practice. As a kid, every summer we would visit family during canning time. Kids harvested the large gardens, adults canned. Big feed every night, lots of fresh veggies, and fruit.
Would bring home cases of canned goods, and eat on them for months.
Good memories :)
 
My wife can can practically everything and does. And she also does pickling too.
 
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PatAz said:
My wife can can practically everything and does.
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As long as she doesn't can you, that's a good thing.
I have memories of my grandmother and mother doing some canning back in the 1950s. I think it was a leftover from The War, when it was seen as patriotic and a way of stretching the food budget.
 
We can both vegetables and fruits. My favorite canned fruit is figs. We also dry fruits and vegetables. Dried tomatoes and dried okra chips are two of my favorites.
 
We had 100 tomato plants in the garden. The misses still cans a little. The best thing besides fresh canned tomato sauce is the bread and butter pickles.

We had a monster garden with fresh veggies that fed my kids with good stuff to eat. That's why there so healthy in there mid to late 30's today.

Our bills were paid and good healthy food was always on the table.

Great summertime quick sandwich. Pumpernickle bread, sliced fresh tomato and mayonnaise. Spread the mayo on both slices of bread. Enjoy I grew up every summer on these for lunch as a kid.

Green beans???

Make your tomato sauce and slice the stick pepperoni up and simmer it in the sauce. When it's almost tender(pepperoni) add in the green beans cut in half. Simmer till the beans are cooked. Get some fresh Italian bread and butter and enjoy. Green squash is optional.

Research about getting a victorio grinder separator. It removes the seeds and skin from all fruits. The tomato sauce is clean tomatoes.
 
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Thanks all! I'm fairly pleased with the results so far and intend to keep at it, at least for a while.

According to my instructor, she is seeing more and more folks showing up for these classes. Seems that there has been a decent uptick in the number of folks wanting to preserve food lately.

As a kid, many moons ago, I would help my Grandmother with canning and pickling, but as I got older I moved onto other things. I recently decided I wanted to rekindle my food preservation interests, thus the classes I'm taking. Along with the upcoming canning Tomatoes, Sauces, and Salsa class, I also have a class on making Bacon and another one on making Sausages. I'll try for a Salting and/or Pickling class after those classes.
 
Haven't for a while, though I have a good pressure canner and can soups and pickles a lot. A few years ago I made a couple of outstanding batches of jam, apricot and plum. They were very popular with people who received them.
 
My son does a lot of canning from his garden. Being a chef, he can put up some great stuff. My wife does jellies, jams and preserves and sells a lot of them at our church Advent Fair. We usually drive down to Woodbury (the real one) for peaches, we get scuppernongs, muscadines and pears from my cousin's farm. She gets strawberries from another farm near us. Let's put it this way, she does enough jelly making that I gave her a Ball Jelly Maker for Christmas. For you guys who's wives do jelly making you might want to check out getting one of those. It heats and stirs the jelly on it's own so you don't have to stand and stir it the entire time.

Oh btw, for those of you who like Apple Butter, after you put in all the spices and cook it down in a crock pot, pears work just as well as apples.

CW
 
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The wife and I can quite a bit. I hunt deer, small game, and have a garden...she is from a farm family and me too. Canning just makes sense (cents?).
 
Never done fruit. I can meat.





That's cow in the pints and chicken in the quarts. I've also done some homemade spaghetti sauce and some chili, and a few quarts of dried pintos. But mostly meat. Cow, pig, chicken and deer.
 
Alpo said:
Never done fruit. I can meat.





That's cow in the pints and chicken in the quarts. I've also done some homemade spaghetti sauce and some chili, and a few quarts of dried pintos. But mostly meat. Cow, pig, chicken and deer.
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That blackberry jam on the muffin made my mouth water but Alpo's work is what I'm thinking about.

Any reason not to freeze those jars?
 
Alpo said:
Never done fruit. I can meat.





That's cow in the pints and chicken in the quarts. I've also done some homemade spaghetti sauce and some chili, and a few quarts of dried pintos. But mostly meat. Cow, pig, chicken and deer.
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Canning meats, soups, sauces and chili is one of the things I'm looking forward to.
 
We do fruits, veggies and pickles/relish. Going to start doing meats next.
Any good meat canning tips/recipes out there?
I forgot to add, good job on the jams. You'll be canning all kinds of things before long.
It's a hobby that's a lot cheaper than guns, heck, you'll actually save money and eat better too.
 
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