Do quilters also preserve fruit and veggies?
#12
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My mother canned a lot. She had 11 kids to feed so she raised a big garden and canned everything she grew. No fruit trees so she had to buy peaches and apples to can. Also, she made lots of beautiful quilts. I don't know how she did all that, makes me tired just thinking about it. I have canned fruit and made jellies when I was a young mother. Now that there is just the two of us, it is much easier to buy what I need at the grocery store.
#14
I can buy home canned produce cheaper then I can grow and do it myself. I know the ladies that do the canning and the gardens the produce come from. No field produce, all home grown. I save the jars for them each year. I have a small pressure canner that I can leftover soup and stews. It's easy. It's amazing how many filled jars I get from leftovers.
#15
We can green beans and mostly freeze everything else. We just put a couple bushels of Zipper Cream Peas in the freezer. We have two of the largest freezer full to the busting point and there are only two of us. Well we do share with the kids and especially Olivia. I would love to have your tomato and spaghetti sause recipes. I love good tomato soup. I used to have a spaghetti sause recipe but have lost it. I used to make jellies, but no one eats them any more. DH always makes a couple of batches of fig perserves for him and DS every year. To sweet for me. Thanks for sharing your pictures the fruit is beautiful.
#18
Originally Posted by cjomomma
Some day I plan on giving canning a try. I bought the canning for dummies book, I guess that is a start. Lol
#19
Originally Posted by pocoellie
They all look delicious, but canning is wayyyyyyy to much like cooking for me. LOL
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Originally Posted by Olivia's Grammy
Originally Posted by cjomomma
Some day I plan on giving canning a try. I bought the canning for dummies book, I guess that is a start. Lol
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