Monday, September 6, 2010

Canning Day

Today was a very productive day in the kitchen! I froze a bit of green beans, zucchini and tomatoes harvested from the garden. Then I did a whole bunch of canning!

First was zucchini relish…

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Then red pepper apricot chutney… Delicious on chicken or pork or with cream cheese on crackers!

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canning 01Followed by apricot honey butter… This is just lovely on English muffins, pancakes or waffles!

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canning 02After lunch I tackled the box of peaches. I canned 11 quarts of peaches (sliced and halves) for the first time! I am very thankful for freestone peaches!!! They’re actually pretty simple to do.

pie filling 03pie filling 04   I ran out of syrup before I ran out of peaches. So I did up two quarts of peach pie filling…

pie filling 06pie filling 07pie filling 08   After all that, I still had enough peaches for a batch of peach freezer jam…

canning 06I love the sound of pinging jars and the way they all look in the light from the sliding door!

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Mom's Cafe Home Cooking said...

Hi Leingang Family :) What an interesting blog! I found your blog through comments at Two Frog Home for the Tattler canning lids. You peaches look wonderful! Is that Tattler lids you used on some of them? If so I recently did a review (Sep 5) of the Tattler lids on my blog after a month of testing them on various home canned products if you are interested. So far they have performed nicely for me.

I also read on your blog where you only started canning last year. Welcome to the wonderful world of canning! Isn't it a great feeling to see all those home canned goodies lining your pantry shelves?

Take care,

September 7, 2010 at 12:24 PM

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