Well, canning season has started. I've been able to can a few things so far this year. In June I started with strawberries that my niece picked. We, my neice and I, made strawberry lemon jam and just plain strawberry jam. They both turned out great.
Strawberies ready to make jam.
Strawberry jam.
Strawberry-lemon jam.
Then I picked cherries with Jennifer, and made cherry jam and cherry preserves, then made a pie and put the last of the cherries in the freezer. The jam didn't set up at all, it was a no pectin added recipe. I'm not sure how the preserves are supposed to be, but they didn't do what I thought they would either, the pie was good and I'll probably be able to make another pie with the frozed cherries I have.
No pectin added cherry jam.
Cherries.
Cherry preserves.
Cherry preserves a different view.
Cherry pie, it was a little sweet but I liked it anyway.
July 23rd Jennifer and I took our kids to a harvest for green beans. It was fun and we picked quite a bit, about 5 1/2 5 gallon buckets. I brought home almost 2 buckets full. I made some pickled, Dilly Beans, green beans with nearly half of them, I'm going to blanch and freeze the other half.
Dilly Beans.
I'm looking forward to canning more fruit and maybe even more vegetables if I can get a pressure canner.
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