virg

Don't let them go to waste. I freeze mine. They are just as good as canned.

sewNso

Red, am i suppose to just be able to open that book and read it, or do i have to buy it? thx computer challenged.
got it read. enjoyable.

Central Ohio Quilter

At the end of our growing season last year I used up all of our green tomatoes with a green tomato relish, using the same recipe that I use for bread and butter pickles. I used finely chopped green tomatoes, onions, peppers, maybe even some zucchini if I had some left. It was delicious.

Central Ohio Quilter

I have made watermelon pickles before. You use only the white part of the rind, cutting off the dark green part and the red part. They take a LOT of sugar and are a VERY sweet pickle.

quilter1

I made chili sauce, corn relish and pickled beets. That's it for this year.

walkerjoanne44

I have heard of watermelon pickles. I'll have to look and see if the recipe is in my grandma's cookbook.

Linda-in-iowa

How do you freeze pears and how do they turn out? What do you use them in after they've been frozen? My tree is full and I hate to see them go to waste. I canned 10 pints this afternoon and hopefully I can get a couple more cannersful tomorrow.

Halo

So far I have canned cherries, apricots peaches, blackberries & pickled beets plus made lots of jam. Done two batches of jam today of blackberries. The blackberries grow wild around here & I get the rest of my stuff from our gleaner group. The beets are the only vegies we have picked so far. Everything else is slow coming on cause it has been to cool here. Our group goes out & picks the leftover crops at no cost to us, just hard work picking everything, & donate part of our picks to help feed over 100 families. Still have green beans, carrots, peas & tomatoes left from last year canning so won't hurt us if we don't get a lot this year to can. Have my own plum tree, so will be canning & jamming them by next week. Will be getting more peaches on Friday. Will so be ready for canning season to be over soon.

Central Ohio Quilter

I have made pear butter already, by using pears instead of apples in an apple butter recipe and then canning it.

It uses up a LOT of pears! And its VERY yummy, with an unexpected taste!

Gelswood

My husband's grandmother made watermelon rind pickles! Thanks for the memory, I forgot all about them!