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The offer was for my Tattler lids. k15n1 has PM'd me :)

Just a food safety note: be sure to increase your processing time as required (check your canner manual) when adding meat to veggies/legumes when pressure canning :)

I'm not a Mormon, but I think most of the usual lists are based on their ideas. The usual Mormon list for Long Term Food Storage is here http://safelygatheredin.blogspot.ca/2008/07/longer-term-storage.html and their Three Month Supply info is here...

I live in a semi-arid climate so have never had problems with squash, I just leave them on the floor next to an outside wall in my dining room. Apples are another story, as they dry out and get wrinkly skin if we try to keep them too long, so we can't buy more than a half-bushel box or two...

The Wiki article for "pie" is actually pretty interesting, although I'm sure there's tons more info out there. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pie Here's a few articles I found when searching on "pie history"--interesting stuff :) http://www.everythingpies.com/history-of-pie.html...

Funny, I just made 3 Turkey Pies with leftover turkey from our Sunday Thanksgiving meal--but once cooled mine went into the freezer. I've read in several places that during the Middle Ages people didn't eat pie crust--it was simply a vessel for the food baked in it, kinda like "soup in a bread...

Want mine? $5/dozen plus actual shipping Un-used I have 6 dozen Wide Mouth and 2 dozen Regular Mouth. Used between once and 4 times I have 4 dozen Regular Mouth. OBO :)

And all the jars I've had break (maybe 5 over the years) have broken the same way--where the sides meet the bottom, as though the bottom was cut off. Sometimes really cleanly, once kinda on the diagonal a bit.

Thanks Deb :)

Your definition of grit sounds a lot like sisu from Joel's original post. :)

Fun :) I wonder if climbing the ladder or pedaling the elevator is more exercise?

Feeling very blessed at the end of a wonderful (Canadian) Thanksgiving Long Weekend :love: So much to be thankful for, surrounded by good friends and family!

Great score, and great job on the boxes! I haven't seen a glass mayo jar in the store in years, but I regularly use commercial pasta sauce jars that a friend saves for me, and I also have several other mystery jars in my rotation that aren't "real" canning jars--never broken any of them. The...

I know exactly where that's from, and I memorized something similar when I was 9 years old. I've forgotten the exact wording that was used when I was a girl, as I've stayed in the organization so long, but currently for the Girl Guides of Canada... I Promise to do my best, To be true to...

Been canning up the last of our tomatoes that are ripening indoors--12 half-pints of chili sauce and 4 pints of salsa this week :) Wish we had apples this year, only got a few off our two-year old trees, but I have high hopes for next year!

Curious why you pressure can applesauce though? I don't know anybody who has done that, wondering if there's some benefit I'm overlooking? Doesn't take long to water bath, plus there isn't all the set up and babysitting, then waiting for the pressure to go down. The canning pot and jars...

Ah, that's probably a big problem right there--I quarter or eighth depending on size and cook my apples down with about 1/4 cup of water in the bottom of the pot to start till I have hot mush, then I run it through the food mill and back into the pot to heat up before hot packing :) My Tattler...

Best bet is to get to know your producers--lots of "organic" growers don't get certified anymore, at least in Canada, because the "certification" seems to mean less over time and cost more/mean more hoops to jump through. Our family likes as local and as organic as we can get it, knowing that...

:hu Sorry, I don't calculate, I just soak up a bag at a time and then can it. Usually works out to full jars and I can it off with soup that's on the go so I have two layers of jars in the pressure canner when I run it. I just do it for convenience as needed--I run my canner every few weeks...

No worries! We don't get Knowledge Network in AB, but I'll see what I can find online anyway :)