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45nut · 07-05-2012, 04:14 PM

This summer I have canned peach butter, pineapple preserves, dill pickles, jalapeno dill pickles, bread & butter pickles, b&b jalapenos & b&b vidalia onions and spiced peaches.

Anyone else into canning?

pickenup · 07-05-2012, 05:38 PM

Nothing quite like opening something in the middle of winter, that YOU canned.

We used to make a production out of it every year.
It was a family effort, and we canned a LOT of different items.
Best pickles I ever had, I grew and canned.
Since there is just the two of us left, we don't do it anymore.

retired grunt · 07-05-2012, 05:53 PM

My canning season is just getting started. I have to say my favorite canned veg is sweet corn, in the dead of winter it still makes me taste summer!

garydude · 07-05-2012, 06:52 PM

Pickles for me- bread and butter style. It's difficult to grow quality cucumbers here in the desert but the Armenian ones do grow well, so my pickles all have ridges around the edges.

bamajoey · 07-05-2012, 09:17 PM

We can pickles and snap beans mostly, occasionally we'll put up some jelly or Kumquat preserves.

76Highboy · 07-05-2012, 09:26 PM

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Originally Posted by 45nut

This summer I have canned peach butter, pineapple preserves, dill pickles, jalapeno dill pickles, bread & butter pickles, b&b jalapenos & b&b vidalia onions and spiced peaches.

Anyone else into canning?

That peach butter sounds terrific.

76Highboy · 07-05-2012, 09:28 PM

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Originally Posted by 45nut

This summer I have canned peach butter, pineapple preserves, dill pickles, jalapeno dill pickles, bread & butter pickles, b&b jalapenos & b&b vidalia onions and spiced peaches.

Anyone else into canning?

It all sounds great. Great variety. I like jalapeno preserves. Do you do that too?

joncutt87 · 07-05-2012, 09:32 PM

We need to sit down and learn

hstout1143 · 07-05-2012, 09:32 PM

I have canned a few refrigerator pickles and jellies, I want to do more. I had a cousin that would make something he called Amish relish, it was spicy and a yellowish color kind of like mustard, anyone know the recipe for that?

Alpo · 07-05-2012, 09:47 PM

I do meat. I keep telling myself I need to try jellies, but I don't eat that much that it would be worthwhile making up 8 or 10 jars. One jar of jelly lasts me a couple of years.

I've put up beef, pork, chicken and deer - all cold pack. Also done browned ground beef, chili, spaghetti sauce and the last batch of chicken I did I had a couple of spaces left, so put up a couple of quarts of pinto beans.

'Course, I did have that one jar crack, and I don't think I'm gonna eat this one.

76Highboy · 07-05-2012, 09:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Alpo

I do meat. I keep telling myself I need to try jellies, but I don't eat that much that it would be worthwhile making up 8 or 10 jars. One jar of jelly lasts me a couple of years.

I've put up beef, pork, chicken and deer - all cold pack. Also done browned ground beef, chili, spaghetti sauce and the last batch of chicken I did I had a couple of spaces left, so put up a couple of quarts of pinto beans.

'Course, I did have that one jar crack, and I don't think I'm gonna eat this one.

I'll bet that is as tender as meat gets, hu?

howlnmad · 07-06-2012, 05:21 AM

B&B pickles, dill pickles, chow chow, beets, carrots, pickled jalapeno jam (awesome with cream cheese), pickled jalapenos, spaghetti sauce, sweet and sour red cabbage, peaches.
I want to can meat but can't get the wife to go along with it.

bamajoey · 07-06-2012, 05:45 AM

Alpo, you ever can mullet? Back in the 70's and 80's a guy I worked with canned lots of it and shared with us. I liked it better than tuna or salmon, not as strong.

hunter29180 · 07-06-2012, 05:51 AM

I think you need a pressure canner for canning meats. we decided to get one for next year. will be looking for info on how to do meat next year.

howlnmad · 07-06-2012, 07:21 AM

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Originally Posted by joncutt87

We need to sit down and learn

Next time you're in a store that has canning supplies, look for the canning guide by Ball, all the info you need and recipes as well.

carver · 07-06-2012, 07:49 AM

I do peaches, pears, blackberries, and figs. I have thought of canning meat, but with it just being the two of us, I find it just about as cheap to buy the tins of meat, and stock up! I did the pickle thing untill I got burned out on them, and I gave most of them away anyhow. Just like the fruits I can, I wind up giving away most of them.

Alpo · 07-06-2012, 09:07 AM

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Originally Posted by bamajoey

Alpo, you ever can mullet? Back in the 70's and 80's a guy I worked with canned lots of it and shared with us. I liked it better than tuna or salmon, not as strong.

Never done fish. Not a big fish-eater, and it is more difficult than meat.

Done bacon, though.

45nut · 07-06-2012, 12:36 PM

I figured there were some canners amongst us.

I bought a pressure canner last year thinking of doing meat, but so far I haven't worked up the courage. I plan on giving a good bit of the preserves as Christmas gifts and some pickles & peaches too.

I just like the thought of doing some food storage for myself.

http://pickyourown.org/allaboutcanning.htm has some good info for beginners

Alpo - I am so envious of your canned meat!!

45nut · 07-06-2012, 02:03 PM

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Originally Posted by 76Highboy

It all sounds great. Great variety. I like jalapeno preserves. Do you do that too?

I haven't yet. I'm from TEXAS and here's some jalapeno jelly is about worn out.

Now, cactus jelly is worthy of great effort, but I live too far from the hill country to get some fresh cactus fruit.

BTW, all of my preserves are white sugar free. For the most part I use organic Agave nectar, honey and some brown sugar. The only thing I've used white sugar in was the spiced peaches because I ran out of Agave nectar and it needed a bit more sweetness. I just use the sugar free pectin and all of my jams have set up pretty good.

I'll post some pictures tonight.

Alpo · 07-06-2012, 02:28 PM

Go for it, 45nut. That first time was scary. Kept kinda expecting the thing to blow up. When I had to go past the stove, to get to the bathroom, I was kinda going sideways, watching it.

Knowing how came in real handy, a couple of months ago. Freezer decided to die, and because I knew how to can, I did NOT lose 50 pounds of meat.

Alpo · 07-06-2012, 02:33 PM

Highboy, I thought you were being sarcastic, talking about that bottom pic, with the mummified chunks of meat with the fat.

But, yeah, that beef is chuck roast. And it's falling-apart tender when it comes out of the jar.

A friend gave me two hindquarters of deer, couple of years ago. Got, I think, ten jars out of that. You get about a pound in a pint jar (we got little deer in Florida). Took some with me when I went to visit the daughter's family. Made 'em "Bambi Stroganov". They all scarfed it down.

45nut · 07-09-2012, 07:37 PM

Alpo · 07-09-2012, 08:24 PM

See, now, that's impressive to me.

When I can, I do a load. One. Uno. At the most, nine pints. People that sit down and do a marathon all-day 30 or 40 jars is just - DAMN - that's a lot of work.

I might do one load every day for a week, but still, just ONE load.

45nut · 07-09-2012, 09:44 PM

Tomorrow night is blackberry jam about 12 half pints then 12 pints of salsa on Thursday, then Saturday hopefully 12 pints of bread & butter pickles with jalapenos.

BTW, every time I see Slowpoke Rodriguez in your signature line I giggle a little.

dons2346 · 07-09-2012, 10:14 PM

We do jams, blackberry, raspberry, strawberry, and mixed. Also do apple butter and some marmalades, orange and lemon.

07-05-2012, 04:14 PM	#1
45nut Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Dallas, TX Posts: 3,428	Anyone here can? This summer I have canned peach butter, pineapple preserves, dill pickles, jalapeno dill pickles, bread & butter pickles, b&b jalapenos & b&b vidalia onions and spiced peaches. Anyone else into canning? __________________ A gun is a tool, Marian; no better or no worse than any other tool: an axe, a shovel or anything. A gun is as good or as bad as the man using it. Remember that. Shane Nemo me impune lacesset We recall the case of the Shoshone war band which showed up complete with one 30-30 rifle per man the week after Pearl Harbor, and simply wanted to have the enemy pointed out to them. "We hear there's a war going on and we want to go fight it." Jeff Cooper *KCCO* -->

07-05-2012, 05:38 PM	#2
pickenup Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains Posts: 6,838	Re: Anyone here can? Nothing quite like opening something in the middle of winter, that YOU canned. We used to make a production out of it every year. It was a family effort, and we canned a LOT of different items. Best pickles I ever had, I grew and canned. Since there is just the two of us left, we don't do it anymore. __________________ The gene pool needs chlorine

07-05-2012, 05:53 PM	#3
retired grunt V.I.P. Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Northern NY Posts: 416	Re: Anyone here can? My canning season is just getting started. I have to say my favorite canned veg is sweet corn, in the dead of winter it still makes me taste summer! __________________ "A pistol defends your property and your person from unanticipated and barely anticipated threats from thieves and robbers. With it, you can control your immediate environment. A rifle defends your freedom from oppressors and tyrants. With it, you can enforce your will" -Gabe Saurez

07-05-2012, 06:52 PM	#4
garydude Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Desert Southwest Proper Contributor Posts: 749	Re: Anyone here can? Pickles for me- bread and butter style. It's difficult to grow quality cucumbers here in the desert but the Armenian ones do grow well, so my pickles all have ridges around the edges.

07-05-2012, 09:17 PM	#5
bamajoey Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Pensacola Contributor Posts: 1,262	Re: Anyone here can? We can pickles and snap beans mostly, occasionally we'll put up some jelly or Kumquat preserves.

07-05-2012, 09:32 PM	#8
joncutt87 Advanced Senior Member Join Date: May 2011 Location: Kannapolis, NC Contributor Posts: 1,419	Re: Anyone here can? We need to sit down and learn __________________ Four words to live by: aequitas, veritas, decus, sacrificium

07-05-2012, 09:32 PM	#9
hstout1143 Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: California Contributor Posts: 1,747	Re: Anyone here can? I have canned a few refrigerator pickles and jellies, I want to do more. I had a cousin that would make something he called Amish relish, it was spicy and a yellowish color kind of like mustard, anyone know the recipe for that? __________________ NRA Life Member Kids that hunt and fish don't mug old ladies. "Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives." - Ronald Reagan "Deo Duce, Ferro Comitante", With God as my leader and my sword as my companion

07-05-2012, 09:47 PM	#10
Alpo Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: NW Florida Posts: 8,666	Re: Anyone here can? I do meat. I keep telling myself I need to try jellies, but I don't eat that much that it would be worthwhile making up 8 or 10 jars. One jar of jelly lasts me a couple of years. I've put up beef, pork, chicken and deer - all cold pack. Also done browned ground beef, chili, spaghetti sauce and the last batch of chicken I did I had a couple of spaces left, so put up a couple of quarts of pinto beans. 'Course, I did have that one jar crack, and I don't think I'm gonna eat this one. __________________ Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy, and taste good with catsup - George of Lod, Year of Our Lord 297 I always take precautions. Beware the Evil Bullet Fairies.

07-06-2012, 05:21 AM	#12
howlnmad Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Harriman, Tn Contributor Posts: 2,573	Re: Anyone here can? B&B pickles, dill pickles, chow chow, beets, carrots, pickled jalapeno jam (awesome with cream cheese), pickled jalapenos, spaghetti sauce, sweet and sour red cabbage, peaches. I want to can meat but can't get the wife to go along with it. __________________

07-06-2012, 05:45 AM	#13
bamajoey Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Pensacola Contributor Posts: 1,262	Re: Anyone here can? Alpo, you ever can mullet? Back in the 70's and 80's a guy I worked with canned lots of it and shared with us. I liked it better than tuna or salmon, not as strong.

07-06-2012, 05:51 AM	#14
hunter29180 Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: in a motorhome where ever we park! Contributor Posts: 1,627	Re: Anyone here can? I think you need a pressure canner for canning meats. we decided to get one for next year. will be looking for info on how to do meat next year. __________________ As I get Older, I have come to understand why our Founding Fathers chose our countrys motto to be "IN GOD WE TRUST", somehow they knew in the future WE would come to the point that WE COULD NO LONGER TRUST THE ONES WHO RUN IT!

07-06-2012, 07:49 AM	#16
carver TFF Moderator/Host Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: DAV, Deep in the Pineywoods of East Texas, just west of Shreveport, LA Contributor Posts: 11,295	Re: Anyone here can? I do peaches, pears, blackberries, and figs. I have thought of canning meat, but with it just being the two of us, I find it just about as cheap to buy the tins of meat, and stock up! I did the pickle thing untill I got burned out on them, and I gave most of them away anyhow. Just like the fruits I can, I wind up giving away most of them. __________________ Y'all be safe now, ya hear! Lamentations Chapter 5: 1. Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. 2. Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. 3. We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers [are] as widows. 5. Our necks [are] under persecution: we labour, [and] have no rest. 16. The crown is fallen [from] our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned! 21. Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.

07-06-2012, 12:36 PM	#18
45nut Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Dallas, TX Posts: 3,428	Re: Anyone here can? I figured there were some canners amongst us. I bought a pressure canner last year thinking of doing meat, but so far I haven't worked up the courage. I plan on giving a good bit of the preserves as Christmas gifts and some pickles & peaches too. I just like the thought of doing some food storage for myself. http://pickyourown.org/allaboutcanning.htm has some good info for beginners Alpo - I am so envious of your canned meat!! __________________ A gun is a tool, Marian; no better or no worse than any other tool: an axe, a shovel or anything. A gun is as good or as bad as the man using it. Remember that. Shane Nemo me impune lacesset We recall the case of the Shoshone war band which showed up complete with one 30-30 rifle per man the week after Pearl Harbor, and simply wanted to have the enemy pointed out to them. "We hear there's a war going on and we want to go fight it." Jeff Cooper *KCCO* Last edited by 45nut; 07-06-2012 at 02:06 PM..

07-06-2012, 02:28 PM	#20
Alpo Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: NW Florida Posts: 8,666	Re: Anyone here can? Go for it, 45nut. That first time was scary. Kept kinda expecting the thing to blow up. When I had to go past the stove, to get to the bathroom, I was kinda going sideways, watching it. Knowing how came in real handy, a couple of months ago. Freezer decided to die, and because I knew how to can, I did NOT lose 50 pounds of meat. __________________ Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy, and taste good with catsup - George of Lod, Year of Our Lord 297 I always take precautions. Beware the Evil Bullet Fairies.

07-06-2012, 02:33 PM	#21
Alpo Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: NW Florida Posts: 8,666	Re: Anyone here can? Highboy, I thought you were being sarcastic, talking about that bottom pic, with the mummified chunks of meat with the fat. But, yeah, that beef is chuck roast. And it's falling-apart tender when it comes out of the jar. A friend gave me two hindquarters of deer, couple of years ago. Got, I think, ten jars out of that. You get about a pound in a pint jar (we got little deer in Florida). Took some with me when I went to visit the daughter's family. Made 'em "Bambi Stroganov". They all scarfed it down. __________________ Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy, and taste good with catsup - George of Lod, Year of Our Lord 297 I always take precautions. Beware the Evil Bullet Fairies.

07-09-2012, 07:37 PM	#22
45nut Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Dallas, TX Posts: 3,428	Re: Anyone here can? __________________ A gun is a tool, Marian; no better or no worse than any other tool: an axe, a shovel or anything. A gun is as good or as bad as the man using it. Remember that. Shane Nemo me impune lacesset We recall the case of the Shoshone war band which showed up complete with one 30-30 rifle per man the week after Pearl Harbor, and simply wanted to have the enemy pointed out to them. "We hear there's a war going on and we want to go fight it." Jeff Cooper *KCCO* Last edited by 45nut; 07-09-2012 at 07:39 PM..

07-09-2012, 08:24 PM	#23
Alpo Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: NW Florida Posts: 8,666	Re: Anyone here can? See, now, that's impressive to me. When I can, I do a load. One. Uno. At the most, nine pints. People that sit down and do a marathon all-day 30 or 40 jars is just - DAMN - that's a lot of work. I might do one load every day for a week, but still, just ONE load. __________________ Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy, and taste good with catsup - George of Lod, Year of Our Lord 297 I always take precautions. Beware the Evil Bullet Fairies.

07-09-2012, 09:44 PM	#24
45nut Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Dallas, TX Posts: 3,428	Re: Anyone here can? Tomorrow night is blackberry jam about 12 half pints then 12 pints of salsa on Thursday, then Saturday hopefully 12 pints of bread & butter pickles with jalapenos. BTW, every time I see Slowpoke Rodriguez in your signature line I giggle a little. __________________ A gun is a tool, Marian; no better or no worse than any other tool: an axe, a shovel or anything. A gun is as good or as bad as the man using it. Remember that. Shane Nemo me impune lacesset We recall the case of the Shoshone war band which showed up complete with one 30-30 rifle per man the week after Pearl Harbor, and simply wanted to have the enemy pointed out to them. "We hear there's a war going on and we want to go fight it." Jeff Cooper *KCCO* Last edited by 45nut; 07-09-2012 at 09:47 PM..

07-09-2012, 10:14 PM	#25
dons2346 Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Move between WA and points south Contributor Posts: 1,415	Re: Anyone here can? We do jams, blackberry, raspberry, strawberry, and mixed. Also do apple butter and some marmalades, orange and lemon. __________________ "A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks." --Thomas Jefferson, letter to Peter Carr, 1785