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[ladydarcie]

could I please have all of the pie filling reciepes? thanks

The recipe I used for my mixed berry recipe is the recipe on the back of the Mrs. Wages package I bought at Menards in Port Huron.

Here it is:
3 1/2 - 4 lbs berries or cherries
3 cups sugar
3 cups water or fruit juice
1 pouch Mrs. Wages Forest berry Pie Filling Mix

Prep canning jars.
Clean Berries and blanch for 1 minute, drain and keep in cover pot. Do not blanch blueberries, raspberries or blackberries.

Combine sugar and water/juice with 1 pouch Forest Berry Pie filling Mix in a large pot. Do not use aluminum. Cook mixture over medium heat (180F) stirring constantly, until thickened, remove from heat. Fold prepared berries or cherries into sauce.

Ladle berries and sauce into sterilized jars, filling evenly. Leave 1/2 inch headspace. Remove air bubbles, wipe rim and cap each jar as it is filled.

Process pints 15 minutes, quarts 20 minutes in a boiling water bath.

I cheated a bit and bought my berries already cleaned and frozen, so I only needed to defrost them. I did find my pie filling could have used a bit more sugar so next time I would use fruit juice instead of water.

[cheekysaver]

I am out of town for 4 days to go camping. I won't have cell or internet service to answer questions until i get back.

[Mystic]

Hi everyone, I just finished canning 40 pounds of peaches. Results were: 26 sealed jars of peaches. I made beets the other night - they taste super!!

Now on to making pickles

[SnowFlakey]

After sealing, do you process them in a boiling water bath? Or just put them on the shelf after closing the lid?

No, you dont process the Marinated Mushrooms in a boiling water bath. Just close the lid and let cool. Make sure your lids are closed thightly. That`s it. Mushrooms are on sale at Arpents Verts fruit store here in my town at 79 cents for those blue trays. So im going to be marinating this weekend.

[SnowFlakey]

I made my Marinated Mushrooms today. I used 10 of those blue containers and i got 5 jars. Here is my pic.

[SnowFlakey]

I used to make my own Hot Dog Relish way back when. Lately ive been hankering for the taste of this fantastic hot dog Relish so i dug up my old recipe. Hope you enjoy it as much as we all did. It's worth taking the time to make this.

HOT DOG RELISH

5 cups ground cucumbers
3 cups ground onions
3 cups ground celery
2 hot red peppers, ground (or to taste)
2 sweet red peppers, ground
3/4 cup pickling or coarse salt
7 cups water
5 cups white vinegar
3 cups sugar
2 tsps mustard seed
2 tbsps celery seed

To grind vegetables, put them through a meat grinder, process until finely chopped in a food processor or chop into small pieces by hand.

Combine vegetables, add salt and water and mix well to dissolve salt. Cover and leave overnight. Drain thoroughly. (I placed the drained vegetables in a cheesecloth bat and squeeze to extract a little more liquid.)

Heat vinegar, sugar, mustard and celery seed to boiling. Add vegetables, bring to a boil, cook slowly for 10 minutes.

Pour in hot, sterilized, preserving jars to one eighth inch from the sealing edge. Seal immediately with a metal lid and sealing band. Process in a boiling-water bath 15 minutes for pints and half-pints.

Makes about 4 pints.

[SnowFlakey]

Im looking for a good pear canning recipe, Something tried and true. Im going to an apple orchard on Labour Day weekend to pick pears, so if anyone has an easy recipe, can you pass it along please.

[RSAS]

I have a question... My mom picked me up a whole pile of jars at a garage sale and they have glass lids with rubber seals on them. I know I can just use the metal lids, but was wondering how does one actually use the glass ones? How do you know if they are sealed?

[Mystic]

Hi everyone, there is a ton of information on this site about canning:

http://www.pickyourown.org/peachescanning.htm

[Mystic]

Here are some great instructions for you:

http://www.foodnetwork.com/search/de...earchType=site

[Mystic]

Here are some great instructions for you:

http://www.bernardin.ca/pages/step_b...canning/32.php

[ladydarcie]

A Warning about jalapeno peppers. The other day I attempted to can Hot Red Pepper Jelly. First off I had the wrong pectin, so I delayed making the jelly and made a trip to go get some liquid pectin.

I got everything out and set my big canner pot my new smooth top stove to boil, my small pot for lids on the stove to boil and proceeded to chop up the peppers. So far so good. I popped all the peppers in my food processer and pulsed a bit. Added the vinegar and it is then that I noticed my left hand was burning. I hit the on button on my food processor and turned around to wash my hands to try to get rid of the burning feeling on my left hand. When I turned back to my food processor, it had over flowed and I had vinegar and pepper juice all over the counter and machine. Ok clean up time!

My hand is still stinging, but onward I go. The canning water on the stove is just about boiling, and I pop the pepper mixture on the stove. It has to hard boil for a minute. As I wait for it to boil, my left hand is really stinging now, so I turn to my laptop on the counter and Google jalapeno burning hands. I didn’t look away from the stove for more than a minute when I heard that all too familiar sound of food over boiling on the stove. Oh my god, the jelly is boiling over and spilling all over the stove, including under the other pots. I quickly move the over-boiling jelly, turn off the stove and I see a huge burnt on mess of sugar and jelly everywhere on the stove and it is burning to a solid mass. My left hand is stinging like I have never felt before in my life. Before I do anything else I have to deal with my left hand. Back to Google, ok I wash my hand with Dove soap, nope that doesn’t help, I soak my hand with vinegar and water, nope that didn’t help, I wash my hand with bathroom cleaner, nope that didn’t help, I wash my hand with vim, nope that didn’t help, I soak my hand in milk, nope that didn’t help, I wash my hand with my husband’s automotive degreaser, nope that didn’t help, NOTHING is helping my hand.

Ok clean up time! I take everything off the stove and proceed to wash all the pots that have jelly burnt on the bottom of them, then I start trying to get the mess off of my new smooth top stove. What a mess! I wipe, I scrub, I use the smooth top cleaner on it and that isn’t helping remove the mess, I try vim, I try Lysol, I try my handy automotive degreaser, and nothing is helping to remove the burnt on mess on the stove. After hours of scrubbing the stove I got all but ¼ of the stove clean enough to proceed with the canning of the jelly. My left hand is still stinging but I have to get this jelly done.

Back to the chore at hand. Got the canner boiling with water again along with the lids in another pot. Back I go to the jelly, add the pectin, boil it (I am not taking my eyes off of it this time) and low and behold I have success. I can now fill my jars and process them in the hot water bath. Yeah I am done! I only got 5 small jelly jars out of the recipe but that is probably because the other jar is burnt solid on my new smooth top stove.

I spent the rest of the day and evening working on cleaning up the mess on my stove and I only got the mess off my wiping it and scrapping it with a straight blade knife and washing it and soaking and repeat. I started this process early in the morning and only got the stove clean just before bedtime.

I am a pretty good cook and really comfortable in the kitchen, but I had no idea that jalapeno peppers can burn you. Every time from now on I will wear gloves when I chop jalapeno peppers, or even look at them. I sure learned a good lesson today not only about jalapeno peppers, but also about keeping a very, very close eye on what I am cooking.


Ohhhhhhhh I had one of those days L. Now after the fact I do see how funny this whole event was, but that jalapeno burn is a memory I will always live with.

[RSAS]

ouch! Ladydarcie, that sounds like quite the adventure! I actually have Jalapeno burn on my left fingers too. I made salsa yesterday and didn't remember about the batch I made last week when I burned my thumb so bad with the jalapeno juices that all the skin peeled off... maybe all those recipes were on to something when they said to use gloves...

[YOU AND ME]

Yes i was going to suggest you wear glove when dealing with Jalpenos

[bluerose]

Made some apple jelly,some apple sauce and some apple slices to freeze for pies.
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Fuuny thing I made 2 batches of apple jelly the 1st was with mostly apple cores and skins with a few apples thrown in for good luck and the 2nd batch was made with apples cut into quarters and the two jellies where completely differant. the 2nd jellied faster but was cloudy . I prefer the 1st batch.
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