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6 pints of crock pot split pea soup and a table full of apples still to peel... :/

I'm going to have to try something like that! Yesterday when I was steaming potatoes for the dehydrator, I remember that the steam water became potato water. And since someone here mentioned boiling the apples twice I think or it was the skins, I had the idea that I might be able to steam...

I don't like apple butter much myself, which is why I thought I'd try for more of a jelly. I guess I'll just play around with it a bit and see what happens. That is what I was wondering though, if anyone knew why it isn't seen in use or in the books. Maybe because it really ends up more like...

Good morning everyone! Still nervous about my first fruit experiences here. Is there any reason I don't find Apple Jam recipes in the "trusted" sources? I don't think I'll ever get this juice clear enough with the tools I currently have and was wondering what would happen if I use this pulpy...

I have 3 trays of potatoes in the dehydrator and 1 tray of summer squash. I steamed them for 5 minutes, rinsed thoroughly and then filled the trays. I juiced 2.5 or so pecks of mixed apples and am currently separating juice from pulp, which will take all night really. That pulp might be good...

Oh THANK YOU for your response.. it's so wonderful that this thread is watched so closely!!!!! I'm so new (last few years) to ALL forms of food not packaged by Kraft ;) This is only the 1st year we'll put up anything except pickles and sweet potatoes, and the first year we've grown a serious...

Advice needed! How flexible is the term "juice"? What I mean is... I of course didn't thoroughly read the directions in my book and now realize my plan for making jelly and apple butter may not be ideal? Every year I use my juicer to get complete juice... straining & straining to get a...

More pickles & relish, quick dills and some bread & butter recipe too. I picked up about 25lbs of fresh apples from the local orchard tonight for processing... I'll start on those tomorrow!

Cinnamon Watermelon Rind Pickles http://www.freshpreserving.com/pages/all_recipes/215.php?recipe=146&recipID=209&catID=

Thank you, so stainless steel would not have a reaction with the acid, like the teflon? All previous recipes call for a non-reactive pot, and so I use the ceramic or teflon coated. I figured steel WOULD have a reaction with acid... which is why I wondered why they would call for such a thing...

I've seen a LOT of jam type recipes that all say to use a large stainless steel pot - for instance: http://www.freshpreserving.com/pages/all_recipes/215.php?recipe=132&recipID=216&catID= Is this REALLY necessary? I have non stick & some ceramic but I have no stainless steel pots. :/

~gd -- it's the kosher dill vinegar based, using a packaged mix. I've never made them before so I hope they are good.

Well, I've been up all night... the a/c is out so I can't can during the daytime for SURE these days, and the food MUSt be put away. 12 Pints of Green Beans 3 Pints of New Potatoes (white & blue) 9 Pints of dill pickles, spears, chips, sandwich stackers I have another 9 pints or so of...

I feel SO bad for you! Broke my heart to read all of this. I wish I could've helped. I'm also new to my geese. I just came in from visiting with my own Lucy the roman tufted. I have 2 females, Lucy & Vera here for my male Nigel, but everyone is young, only a few months old. What kind of...

Well.. I don't sell too many, but it doesn't bother me at all because decent chicken at the store here is almost $4/lb and it surely isn't as good, healthy or as tasty as mine :) I charge extra for skin on because I don't do that personally.. that would be a special circumstance. I can kill...

I too forgot to mention my meat birds... also Colored Freedom Rangers which I sell skinless whole breasts & leg quarters for $5/lb Skin ON whole chicken for $6/lb When my yellow & red bell peppers are ready, I'll price them at $3 EACH! Which is still less than our grocery store sells NON...

I feel so silly, but I still do the same thing I did as a kid. I take my fingernail and press a line through the mosquito bite and then make another intersecting line to make an X then forget about it that's it. :idunno has worked for over 30 years for me

I didn't plant a market garden per se because I was going to sell eggs, but the market changed policy on me so now instead of selling eggs I have a sign for Rent-A-Hen $6/mo We do all the work, you get all the eggs! 1/2 dozen per week per hen And, I've been the only one until last weekend, it's...

I'd love your guidance on the ice tea concentrate... I can't seem to get it right here..... what another GREAT idea

I plan on doing tomatoes only, and following my old timer friends advice.. she's been doing this since childhood... I do read that it's only good for acidic juices, and I will gladly use them in subsequent years for grape juice from our vines... but I wonder why tomato juice isn't acidic enough...