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    Default First time canning

    I know Crash started a Canning post a few days ago so please bare with me.I will try my hand at making some Dewberrie jam tomorrow.I need to pick up some jelly jars and pectin then I'll be all set to go.It should be a fun project.I just hope I don't eat all the berries before I get started.
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    Good luck with it. Don't forget - samples to QC (and not just the ones that live close to you).
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    I'll send you a jar if you dont tell you know who where you got it.

    We will have to think of a code name so you can report on what you think of it.Something like,Squirel jam needs more sugar.
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    I expect for my phone to ring when you know who see's this.Expecially after I called him for some canning info.
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    Word of warning, this hobby is addictive. I started out just making a few pots of jam "for fun" and I now jam, chutney and can for England! To the point where I'm already planning what fruits to bring back from France with me when I go on my hols!
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    Jams and jellies can be so easy to make. Simple grape jellies can even be made from fruit juice. The juice is what you are after as the base so using a fruit juice is a great way to start out for a first timer.

    Let us know how it goes. Pectin is the key for the jellies and jams.
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    My first canning job was fun.I now have ten 4oz jelly jars of Dewberrie jam cooling.At first I was a little worried about the jars sealing because a few of the lids did not seam to be sucking down as they should.I just checked them after an houre or so of cooling in the basement and they all look like they should be fine.Listening to the popping as the lids sucked down is pretty cool.At first I thought I had a jar that was cracking.

    I had a little left over that would not fit in the jars so I was forced to eat it.I know its tough but some one had to do it.MMMmmm MMMmmm good..I think I can hear an english muffin cowering in the frige.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Stargazer View Post
    I expect for my phone to ring when you know who see's this.Expecially after I called him for some canning info.
    Just reprehensible........
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    Try doing that to a truck bumper in the middle of Winter. Here, not where you live.
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    That's just not right Ken..Psst when you get him up here let me know.I will take the pic's.
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    No thanks (I haven't lived in Florida all my life).

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    Yeah, they used to do that on the outside of the sub when they were at the north pole!!
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    Actually, when we were under ice you could have done it from the inside if you climbed down into the bilges.
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    And just how many poor boys did you get to try that trick?.."Hey Ken I double dog dare you to stick youre tounge to the hull"
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    Quote Originally Posted by Stargazer View Post
    And just how many poor boys did you get to try that trick?.."Hey Ken I double dog dare you to stick youre tounge to the hull"
    Wud yoo thay?
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    Is this how the bilge works?

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    Excess water inside the people tank = bad.
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    i think that i am going to try some canning next summer. i have to wait until i can get the supplies and that won't be until i get my income tax return. then i plan on learning how to can mom taught me when i was little but don't remember much. i have some of her recipes and i think that some of them are her canning recipes so i will try those first.
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    Honestly Equus you won't be sorry. Home meade stuff tastes so much better and you know exactly whats gone in there. And then there's that lovely warm feeling knowing that you've added to your preps.
    Once you've got all the equipment it pays for itself pretty quickly.
    So far this year I've made Strawberry jam, Raspberry jam, Peach pie filling, blackcurrant pie filling, strawberry pie filling, canned some raspberries. Next week it's blackberry and apples that get the treatment, and tomato chutney and sauce at the end of the month. I'm also planning on pickling some onions and making piccallili. That should see us thru the winter.
    Someone here also mentioned elderberries and that reminded of making some syrup so I'm going to have a go at that and some rosehip syrup too.
    I find it a very soothing and gratifying hobby!
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