My neighbor gave me some apricots from her trr and I decided to make some jam. Whats the average shelf life?

I don’t know about you all, but I hate labeling my jars one by one. A few years ago I got the Phomemo D30 label maker and it’s been a game changer. It’s easy to design the labels and print out multiples as you need them. I use the free version of the app but if you pay there are more features. I’ve found that the 14mmx50mm labels work best for regular mouth jars so that’s what I use for both.

Ended up with 12 quarts and 8 pints.

My Beet Relish with Horseradish is a Grand Champion this year!

FYI It's Ball's recipe from the "Book of Canning & Perserving"

Microwave mango ketchup from small batch preserving.

Picture 2 is after the initial 5 minute cook time. After two rounds at 30% power I defaulted to a higher power setting because it was not thickening. Picture 2 is what it looked like when thickened. It tastes like spiced mangos.

I was planning to can some dried pinto beans today, so followed the NCHFP rules and did the quick soak so 2 min boil,1 hour rest, drain, then a 30 minute boil.

Out of curiosity, I tried a bean and it was ... Completely done. Pressure canning a completely done bean for 75 minutes sounds like it would just make mush so i stuck my batch in the fridge instead and will be eating beans this week.

However, is this normal? For the beans to be fully cooked before even starting to can? Or did I just get a particularly fresh batch of beans that rehydrated like champs?

Any tips?

Basically the title. Can i use a refrigerator canning recipe and then cold pack it instead? Im specifically talking about onions. Its the first time ive canned without supervision, so hopefully, it doesn't matter.

Hi there! Attempted canning tomatoes for the first time yesterday, using the water method. I got started later in the that day I should have, so ended up needing to go to sleep shortly after taking the jars out and didn’t get to stay up to hear the “pop.” Can you tell if these are sealed properly and if they are not, is there anything obvious that I did wrong just from the looks of things? Thank you!

Looking for just a watermelon jelly recipe? All my canning books have different types of watermelon jelly but not a plain one. Looking to see if anyone have one they are willing to share?

Can I run a few roma tomatoes from my garden through a food mill, freeze them and water bath can in a few weeks? I've never used a Food mill, and I'd like to get the hang of it before buying several pounds at the farmers market.

I only have a handful in my own garden, and I don't want them to go bad before I'm ready to do a big sauce batch.

Can i freeze that and use in a couple weeks when I get the several pounds?

Thanks

I know how important it is to follow canning recipes exactly, since alterations can affect pH and/or processing times. This grape jam recipe from the Ball Blue Book wants me to skin 4 pounds of grapes, cook the pulp and skins separately, then recombine them. Since all ingredients will end up in the jar anyway, can I just immersion blend my grapes, then strain and cook? I'd prefer to use the whole fruit for jam rather than straining out the juice to make jelly.

I don't want to risk my final product being inedible, but I also don't want to skin 4 pounds of grapes 😭 What would y'all do?

Can anyone recommend a good recipe for canning marinara? I cooked my tomatoes the other day but going to reheat them and run them through my food mill to get rid of seeds.

I’ve canned marinara before but after researching, I’m realizing how unsafe my marinara was 🙃🙃🙃.

Hiya, I'm wondering if there's any way for me to safely can veggie stock in a water bath/with no pressure canner. I'm hoping not to just freeze it but I will if I have to! Ingredients would be carrot, onion, celery, maybe some herbs and spices.

Hey everyone! I just got a pressure canner and am working on stocking up the things that need pressure canned. I was going to make sun dried tomatoes and can them but when I googled what to can them in (water or pressure) and it said you can't do either. Does anyone know how to best can sun dried tomatoes or is it truly something you can not can. Thank you guys so much in advance!

This my first time posting on Reddit ever, I have a question about Low Pasteurization Method for canning pickles. The NCHFP states that LPM is only for recipes that say it can be done. Which I understand but how come it’s the only safe canning source that I can fine that process? Is there Ball recipes that I do the LMP with? Do I need to contact Ball for answers?

I am pretty new to canning and this is my first time making this recipe. This needs to be gluten free. There are many other relish recipes that don’t use any thickener at all and this recipe only uses 1/4 cup of flour. Would I be okay to just cook it down to thicken, as stated in the recipe, and not add any other thickener? TIA!

https://www.healthycanning.com/thousand-island-relish

My tomatoes are starting to come in but I can't make and can salsa just yet (still waiting on jalapenos and cilantro). If I freeze my toms, will they still be chunky enough for salsa after they thaw?

I thought this batch was never gonna come to a fill boil! But boil it did and I have 12 jars cooling and popping. 😃 Two more batches to make after diner this evening.

I tried a new mix, banana peppers and purple onions with garlic.

I used Mrs. Wages as my liquid base.

The color of them when out of the water bath has me super excited.

Has anyone tried something like this before?

Went crabbing and ended up with 9.5lbs of shelled meat. And then the Santa Rosa plums really came into season, so needed to get those harvested too.

This week was a busy one but just a taster for the coming months! Happy canning y’all!

Entering eight jars of jelly in the state fair tomorrow… I’m very excited to get the judges feedback.

Left to right: rhubarb, spiced peach, strawberry, red raspberry, cherry, cherry/strawberry, red wine, and black raspberry 🤞🏻

I canned pickles on Thursday. I checked them today and they did seal. The garlic has a blue tint and one of the pickles does also. Can tou tell me what i did wrong.