To canning, that is! Seriously! Last year, I learned how to can salsa in a water bath. After I made a batch of apple butter and a batch of carrot cake jam. This year, I have gone a little crazy with it. My mother-in-law showed me how to use my pressure cooker and that's opened up a whole new world as far as canning goes. Here's what I've done, so far:
32 quarts, 3 pints of salsa
16 pints of garlic dill pickles
10 pints of applesauce
10 pints of beef
9 half pints of strawberry chocolate sauce
and I am in the process of pressure canning 8 quarts of beef stew as I type this. All that I have listed has been done in the last two months! I love it! I love preparing everything, I love seeing all those jars cooling on the counter, I love seeing jar after jar arranged in the cupboard and I love knowing that my family will have these things on hand when we need them. What I love the most though, is hearing the pings when the jars are sealing. Hearing those is like a reward after hours of prep work. I plan on making apple pie filling next and after that I think I'm going to be done....that's the plan anyway!
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