Our 2 freezers are absolutely crammed -- as they
should be at this time of year
. DW bought 2 chickens today and wanted to freeze one. I told her that we might have been in trouble if she had wanted both in there. Chicken soup with rice and garden veggies tomorrow. We should be able to empty the pot in 2 days. I'm supposed to buy barley soon because we both like beef & barley soup.
The only thing that I have ever canned was jam and that practice went by the wayside years ago. The jars were mostly used for gifts and I relied on the apricot tree that grew beside the
then garden. In 2023, I'm lax about buying some Bartlett pears and GD apples. I've often made pear & apple butter and frozen it in small containers. However, DW is really trying to cut sugar and so it would just be me eating these, which might be okay with her since she isn't inclined to eat this sort of thing in sandwiches or on toast.
Pasta sauce goes in the freezer every year.
The only thing that I remember my mother canning were peaches. She especially liked them and, I think, resisted becoming too much of a farm wife. An example, she said that her mother told her to never learn how to milk a cow. I know Grandma Goldie was speaking from experience. Perhaps this was your mother's thinking also,
@SPedigrees .
I was once told by a person at Cooperative Extension that the reason her job was funded 100 years ago was because of important food safety concerns. You know,
@Country Homesteader , it wouldn't surprise me if your Coop Ext office has a food preservation program that you could benefit from. BTW, Country', the LDS genealogical people tell me that I have ancestors who migrated first from the Great Britain and then into what is now Lunenburg County, just next door to you there in Crewe. This was in just about 1700 and if you give me some time, I just might remember their names
. Good Gravy, at 5 generation/century, if your families arrived on the Eastern Seaboard at 300 years plus, those early colonists are almost all ancestors.
Steve
