Canners-I need your help

[karalin9]

Thanks for the recipe Rachel!

I finally found some Wellesley Apple Butter at the market downtown (i grew up just outside wellesley, and missed the apple butter soooo much when I moved here) but it gets pricey, the way I go through it!!!

[rachel1496]

It's finally done, I'm eating it warm on toast right now. Soooo, good.

Belle, I love Micheal Smith. I like the way he cooks, just throwing together things that he thinks will work well and seeing how it turns out.

[smb127]

You can keep the jars you get from some sauces as they are masson jars. We like the spaghetti sauce in a jar better than the stuff in a can so I end up with 3 or new jars every month. I just buy new rings and lids. I also have the big canning pot for the hot water bath. I have all of next July off so I will be canning a ton of jams.

[kopykatz2001]

I love canning, I jst pickled sweet beets. Important information: Always sterile, your bottles, lids and tongs. Have a clean cloth to wipe the lip of the jars after filling.

Enjoy or day all...

[Glo_Majada]

Can Apple butter be frozen? if so how long

[swouper2]

I only usually buy new snap lids, I don't need very many rings. 24 hours after i've canned them, I out them in storage with no ring on, and then reuse my rings to do more canning. That way it's easier to tell if a seal has broken, and they tend to get less corosion if they're not stored on the jars. so often my canning ends up costing almost nothing - just 10 cents for a new lid, and the "too much money" I spent watering the garden in the spring, and whatever new gardening tools I "have" to have.

[swouper2]

Oh - plus the energy to leave my stove running on three burners for days at a time..