RE: Lazy weekend

Bonnie: The recipes are often included in the packages of liquid pectin
that you can buy. No more paraffin thank goodness...the rubber seals on
new lids are all you need. Look up stuff on your local extension service
website...loads of great info. I canned multiple batches of cherry jam
and cherries in June...next I'll be moving on to the plums and apples
when they're ready. Can't wait for the apple butter I'm going to make!
Yummy!!!



Melody 
Hills, IA  zone 5

Work for the Lord:  the pay isn't much but the retirement is out of this world!

 --- On Tue 07/25, Bonnie & Bill Morgan < wmorgan972@ameritech.net > wrote:
From: Bonnie & Bill Morgan [mailto: wmorgan972@ameritech.net]
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 14:28:22 -0400
Subject: RE: [CHAT] Lazy weekend

I used to help mother make grape jelly until about 20 years ago. She
used<br>to use pectin and seal with paraffin, if I remember right. But I
sure don't<br>remember the proportions. I think I have her old strainer
in the basement,<br>too.<br><br>Cyndi if you have a current jelly recipe
I can use for canning plum jam or<br>jelly, I'd appreciate
it.<br><br>Blessings,<br>Bonnie (SW OH - zone
5)<br><br>Blessings,<br>Bonnie (SW OH - zone 5) <br><br>-----Original
Message-----<br>From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net
[o*@hort.net] On Behalf<br>Of Judy
Browning<br>Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 12:17 AM<br>To:
gardenchat@hort.net<br>Subject: Re: [CHAT] Lazy weekend<br><br>Cyndi,
you should send Bonnie the canning info I couldn't find for
her<br>plums! I haven't canned jam for 20 years.<br>Judy B<br>-----
Original Message -----<br>From: "Johnson Cyndi D Civ 95 CG/SCSRT"
<cyndi.johnson@edwards.af.mil><br>To: <gardenchat@hort.net><br>Sent:
Monday, July 24, 2006 7:57

AM<br>Subject: RE: [CHAT] Lazy weekend<br><br><br>> All of those! I can
tomato sauce, salsa, whole tomatoes, various other <br>> tomato
products, green beans, pickles of various veggies, and then <br>>
there's the jams & jellies; I dry tomatoes and make fruit leather; I
<br>> freeze corn (when we grow it), peas, peppers, and melon. Keeping
<br>> onions is a problem though, they don't preserve well. We're
talking <br>> about buying a cheap fridge to keep in the garage.<br>>
This year I've only managed 3 batches of jam. But I wanted to cut <br>>
back, after all. I deliberately didn't do many green beans, and the
<br>> tomatoes are not doing all that well (too hot too early) - so
while I <br>> will have enough to make a few jars of this n' that, I
don't have 90 <br>> pounds of anything to deal with.<br>><br>>
Cyndi<br>><br>> -----Original Message-----<br>> From:
owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On <br>>
Behalf Of james singer<br>> Sent: Sunday, July

23, 2006 12:31 PM<br>> To: gardenchat@hort.net<br>> Subject: Re: [CHAT]
Lazy weekend<br>><br>> Question, Cyndi--<br>><br>> How do you preserve
your garden's bounty--can, freeze, dehydrate?<br>><br>> On Jul 23, 2006,
at 3:18 PM, Johnson Cyndi D Civ 95 CG/SCSRT wrote:<br>><br>>>
Temperature is in the hundreds again for the weekend and I am, as <br>>>
they say, not doing jack. I picked zucchini, okra, and tomatoes <br>>>
yesterday morning, pulled a couple weeds, and that was it. Today I
<br>>> went out just to see what was up and something bit me on the
thigh - <br>>> probably an ant, since I was sitting on the ground in a
shady spot. <br>>> My whole thigh hurts like anything, I ended up taking
an <br>>> antihistamine hoping it would help. You'd think I'd know
better than <br>>> to sit outside wearing shorts, but apparently
not.<br>>> I decided not to go hiking yesterday morning and my friend
called <br>>> last night hoping I'd go today. Don't think so, I said and
then she

<br>>> admitted it was over 90 when they went yesterday morning at 6 am.
She <br>>> has this enormous Alaskan malamute and I told her it was
insane to <br>>> take him into the hills in this kind of heat. I think
she actually <br>>> listened.<br>>> A thunderstorm moved in yesterday
afternoon and muttered at us for an <br>>> hour or so, but no rain. At
least the temps dropped into the high 90s <br>>> while the cloud cover
was there. Maybe we'll get it again today, but <br>>> so far it's
clear.<br>>> I have a lot of preserving to get done for my fair entries
but I just <br>>> can't bring myself to get into the kitchen. Gaah. I
may have to take <br>>> a couple days off to get it done, my time window
is shrinking rather <br>>> dramatically.<br>>> So in the end I'm
managing only to read a few books and check the <br>>> computer.<br>>> I
feel like the wicked witch..."I'm melting! I'm melting!". I LIKE <br>>>
the heat, but this is excessive.<br>>><br>>> Cyndi<br>>><br>>>

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