What are you canning now?

[Shades-of-Oregon]

Salt is a good way to enhance flavors. I have used on and in all my recipes . Just a tad. I use idoized salt.
Sea salt is nice too , various types. Usually a top addition to foods that need that extra .
My dogs luv chicken and beef broth it’s so good for them without the salt .
That reminds me I have to tear a whole chicken apart to set on the stove…

 

[flowerbug]

first batch of tomatoes. picked this morning, ran errands, then got them going this evening and they'll be done in about 20 minutes.

very sweet.

 

[ducks4you]

This weekend's broth making. I started this batch Saturday morning in anticipation of the Sunday roast dinner, with 2 beef bones and 1 package of soup bones (which had some meat on them,) onion powder and garlic powder.
Cooked for one day, pulled out all of the bones, separated the soup bone meat to cool and feed to Eva, and packaged and cooled the other bones to add back to the crock pot after the meal.
Added carrot and potatoes Sunday morning, meat added at noon, ate at 6 PM, then added back the bones and the potatoes and carrots not eaten, finished the batch Monday morning.
VERY RICH 4 quarts. Eldest DD wants the fat, so I don't skim it off.
As I posted on my thread, we really should make some soup or stew with the broth, not just to add the broth to meals.

 

[ducks4you]

Ah, no, the canning season is at hand,
When summer scents are on the air distilled,
When golden fruits are ripening in the land,
And silvery tins are gaping to be filled.
–Alice Duer Miller (1874–1942)

 

[heirloomgal]

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Ah, no, the canning season is at hand,
When summer scents are on the air distilled,
When golden fruits are ripening in the land,
And silvery tins are gaping to be filled.
–Alice Duer Miller (1874–1942)

Beautiful. Your soul is full of poetry @ducks4you.

 

[Dahlia]

View attachment 68735
Ah, no, the canning season is at hand,
When summer scents are on the air distilled,
When golden fruits are ripening in the land,
And silvery tins are gaping to be filled.
–Alice Duer Miller (1874–1942)

Those jars look absolutely beautiful! It's so satisfying to stand back and admire it when finished!

 

[ducks4you]

THOSE photos are from the Farmer's Almanac.
Mine are the 4 less beautiful but very rich beef broth.
But, yes, dressed up they look like very nice Christmas presents.

 

[ducks4you]

I am about to can apple pie and applesauce. The harvest from my red (???--dunno what kind) old apple tree, that tree that was trying to die, but changed it's mind and made a LOT of 2024 apples, is keeping really well.
The Johnagolds started to decompose, at least those with damage.
Thought you'll might enjoy this article:

Ode to an Heirloom - Modern Farmer

At the apple orchard where I used to work, autumn's encroaching frenzy had the most unassuming harbinger. One day in early August, a ladder would appear

modernfarmer.com