Tag Archives: Canning Total 2011

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Leftovers

After the holiday dinners are over I only have one request.  Can I have the carcass! :)

 

I acquired 4 turkey carcasses, combined it with all the vegetable “garbage” I’ve frozen throughout the year (onion skins, carrot peels, leaves off of the celery and potato skins) and made 13 quarts and 1 pint of broth, along with a big pot of homemade soup.

 

The treasure after 6 hours of boiling…

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Skimmed Broth:

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Don’t forget to ask for the leftover bones at your next holiday meal!  It’s a great source of FREE food!!

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Grapes and Jelly

Our grape vines went from this in 2010:

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To this in spring of 2011:

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And this year we’re happy to announce we actually got some grapes!!

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And we turned them into 9 jars of grape jelly!!

 

I’m thrilled that pruning them helped and that we didn’t kill the vines ;)

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2011 Canning totals to date

Number Jar Size Description
40 pint apple sauce
16 pint pear sauce
20 half jelly jars blueberry spice jam
15 half jelly jars nectarine jam
9 reg jelly jars grape jelly
14 pint sliced cinnamon pears
5 pints plain salsa
7 tall jelly jars corn salsa
31 reg jelly jars corn salsa
10 pint corn salsa
1 quart corn salsa
17 quart crushed tomatoes
20 quart tomato puree
38 pint Spaghetti sauce
5 pint dilly beans
5 quart dilly beans
3 pint pickled Hungarian wax peppers
2 quart  hot dill Hungarian wax peppers
13 pint bread and butter sliced pickles
8 quart bread and butter sliced pickles
5 quart bread and butter whole pickles
12 pint dill pickle slices (new ball recipe)
1 quart dill pickle slices (new ball recipe)
12 quart dill pickle spears
2 quart garlic dill pickles
14 quart Wages Dill spears
14 pint corn 
6 pint green beans
19 quart potatoes
18 pint refried beans
382 Jars Total  

 

I have to say honestly, I totaled the number and thought “wow, that’s low”.  I thought we produced more than that!  This doesn’t account for what we’ve consumed directly or froze, but still it feels like we did more then this.  Hopefully my notes are correct!  Either way that is certainly a good bit of our food for the next year!!  We could still can more, but I’m not going to any great lengths to cover our plants and protect them from frost.  We have been covering the sunflowers for the wedding and that is enough of a chore!  I just don’t have the time, energy or blankets to cover our food garden too!

How has your summer wrapped up?