outdrmike
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Anyone have some good recipes for canning either fruits or vegtables. I just made some bread and butter pickles. They were my first canning experiment. They turned out great so now I trying to figure out what to do next.
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ladymc53
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Get the Ball Blue Book in the canning section at WalMart. It has tons of recipes that are great.
My apple butter recipe:
Is exactly what's in the Blue Book, except I dehydrate the sliced apples and run the peelings through the food processor to a fine grind, then measure them out per the recipe and cook it down, adding all the other ingredients, then run it through a sieve. Process . Everyone loves my apple butter and they never know it's the peelings.
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lzasitko
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I have for a couple of years been making dill pickles. Strub Pickles has their brine recipe posted along with several other salads. For a long time I was trying different pickle brines but since I found this one it is the only one I use. Last year was a bad year for pickles here but this year is much better evan though I did not get them started until mid june. Next year I will plant more and try to get them in earlier.
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outdrmike
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I'm going to start a garden this weekend. As far as pickles go what are the best kind of cucumbers to grow?
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CamperAminal
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Here's the Ball/Kerr online canning information, enjoy:
http://www.homecanning.com/usa/
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Skipper Rod
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We did pickles, peaches, diced tomatoes, spaghetti sauce, apple jam, and peach jam.
Oh and we pickled green beans. Nobody had ever heard of that but they came out awesome and everybody at work loves them. We got all our recipe's of of
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rgraham
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while in Alaska the wife canned Salmon, Fire weed Jelly, black berries, Salmon berries,and Blue berries, she canned 110 pints of Salmon they are all gone now but they were darn good,
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PGR_Skye
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Hi! I've been canning since 1967. I started out with the Ball Blue Book then and and it should be the foundation book for your canning. I've love to preserve everything I can get my hands on. In fact, I've already decided to take my smaller canner and other equipment with us in the fiver. One of the first things you should do is go to Gardenweb.com. Click on forums then go to the Harvest forum. These people do every kind of preserving you can imagine with an emphasis on canning. The knowledge and recipes they pass on are priceless. Love the Roasted Tomato Garlic soup on a chilly evening. Annie's Salsa is good anytime and I can eat the Apple Pie jam out of the jar with a spoon (so can a lot of other people). They can answer any questions you have or get the information for you. One of them works at an Extension getting out safe canning procedures and recipes to the public.
Also check out the National Center For Home Food Preservation at www.uga.edu/nchfp/ for all the latest, safest approved preserving methods. That's sort of like the Bible of canning. You might want to check out any Extension office as they have free information on preserving and some even offer classes.
While you're thinking of it, give pearsauce a try. I just put up a batch of it. You do it like you would do applesauce except you use peeled, cored pears. You can also add other fruits to applesauce like raspberries for a little perk in taste. I do my applesauce with a potato masher after cooking down the peeled and cored apples a little. I like mine that way, but I know people who like their's the same way ladymc53 does. I used to cook the clean unpeeled, uncored apples until a little soft the put them through my Victorio Strainer like my friend who owns an orchard did, then cook them with cinnamon to the proper consistency. Since then I've changed to the chunkier method. Still have my V.S. for tomatoes, though.
I'm taking a lot of my own stuff with us on our next trip.
Outdrmike, the best pickles for pickling are the small picklers. You can buy the seeds and grow your own or check them out at the grocery. In fact, one of the regulars on the Harvest forum at Gardenweb.com just mentioned that they check the groceries for them because most people going to groceries ignore them in favor of the large cukes for fresh eating. These picklers also make good fresh eating cukes.
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JoyBob
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If you are serious about canning, a Mirro Pressure canner would be a good investment. It will have a good instruction book and will tell you how to can just about anything.
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