As much as I love to have home grown, home canned produce put away, it is starting to get the best of me. This week I've made another 9 qts of pickles of the usual varieties; froze another gallon of beans, grated several qts of summer squash, zuke and yellow; put some tomatoes in the freezer for making soup this winter and forgotten about the okra still in the fridge that I will slice, cover with cornmeal and either eat or freeze. If I wait another day, we can eat it tomorrow for supper. Over two days we've picked six 3-gallon buckets and two 5-gallon buckets of lovely red apples off our tree and frozen about 17 gallons of peeled and sliced apples, canned about 10 qts of applesauce, plus one small apple crisp.
I also have a total of 36 qts of peaches in jars, 32 frozen peaches and some chunks from some rather beat up ones for smoothies in the future. We picked two peaches off our own tree which has a total of 13 this year, because one was pecked and the other so closely attached it was both or none. I think they are ripe, Jim doesn't. We'll see after a taste test.
Sunday, August 16, 2020
Wednesday, August 12, 2020
August 11, 2020
We put 118 quarts of corn in the freezer in three evenings work. When I was a kid and helping Mom with corn, I don't remember making and eating any supper. We just ate corn. I should see if Mom remembers, I'm not sure Dad would have been enthused about that.
Friday evening Jim and I picked garden and Saturday spent some time going around town to see if anyone sells a steam canner. Mine has holes in the bottom and dripping all over, so it is out. He went to Menards and the Farms stores and I went to Walmart and Ace. No luck, so I ordered one online, I hope it comes since they aren't out to send until the month is almost over. I still have my enamel water bath canner and after a refresher course, am using it. I bought a jar lifter since I don't have all tall enough rack to pull all jars out at once. Besides, that way is too heavy. I also bought a 25# lug of California peaches.
After that, I went to work on what we got out of the garden. I got 3 qts of dill pickles, 6 qts of Caddie pickles, 5 qts of bread and butter pickles and put 1 qt of grated and 3 qts of sliced zucchini and yellow squash in the freezer.
Monday I put 2/3 of the peaches into 11 qts and bought 2 more lugs.
Tuesday, I put up 6 more qts of peaches, 6 of Caddie pickles, 3 dills, 8 pints of zucchini relish and froze 2 qts grated yellow squash. The zucchini looks better in the relish and we don't mind the yellow in bread. For squash patties, it doesn't matter which kind.
Friday evening Jim and I picked garden and Saturday spent some time going around town to see if anyone sells a steam canner. Mine has holes in the bottom and dripping all over, so it is out. He went to Menards and the Farms stores and I went to Walmart and Ace. No luck, so I ordered one online, I hope it comes since they aren't out to send until the month is almost over. I still have my enamel water bath canner and after a refresher course, am using it. I bought a jar lifter since I don't have all tall enough rack to pull all jars out at once. Besides, that way is too heavy. I also bought a 25# lug of California peaches.
After that, I went to work on what we got out of the garden. I got 3 qts of dill pickles, 6 qts of Caddie pickles, 5 qts of bread and butter pickles and put 1 qt of grated and 3 qts of sliced zucchini and yellow squash in the freezer.
Monday I put 2/3 of the peaches into 11 qts and bought 2 more lugs.
Tuesday, I put up 6 more qts of peaches, 6 of Caddie pickles, 3 dills, 8 pints of zucchini relish and froze 2 qts grated yellow squash. The zucchini looks better in the relish and we don't mind the yellow in bread. For squash patties, it doesn't matter which kind.
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