huntannette

made my wild strawberry jam earlier in the summer....now just finished blueberry jam, choke cherry jelly and crabapple jelly, as well as Salsa from fresh tomatoes...yum!!

Krystyna

Will you share that blackberry relish recipe? Our bushes are bursting!
I've got to get out and snip grapes fast -- from the look of it, the birds have been enjoying themselves!

daisylil

We have had a bumper year for wild blackberries here in the Uk , I love to go blackberry picking on my own ,,,,,just relaxing and eating a few lol ,,i found a recipie that only takes 2 mins to boil it up , so made 20 jars last weekend (without pips)will be doing same this weekend , i give most away so enjoy the smiles

meanmom

I have been making red raspberry jelly. I have 28 jelly jars made. SO YUMMY! I usually make strawberry too but didn't get enough strawberries this year. PLants are older and we had the wettest spring on record then it turned really really hot and dry here. This is the worst garden year I think we have had since we got married, 28 years. I have a raspberry cobbler in the oven.

Dodie

I make all of our jams and jellys with chokecherry being the favorite by far with everyone but this year it was so wet and cold up until the 1st of Juky that there was no chokecherries glad I had some juice canned and some in the freezer

Greenheron

Ahhh! Strawberry rhubarb and "bluebarb"---love that rhubarb tang.

Flo Pierce

I've made lots of strawberry (a favorite by all) and some
blueberry jam and waiting for the concord grapes to get ripe so
I can make some grape conserve. Yummy. My sister made
some grapefruil jelly after coming from Florida. good too.
It makes a terrific gift for folks that don't make it.
has anyone heard that the newest thing that the power that
bee wants us to all use a hot water bath to seal our jellys and
jam. Well I don't think so. My Mom used parafin and I will
continue to also.

Flo in NNY

Dbl Trouble

I make several kinds, Rhubarb Pineapple with the strawberry jello, Strawberry jam, Grape cinnamon, Apple cinnamon. I add 2 heaping ice tea spoons full of cinnamon blended with the sugar when it's time to put it in. Yumm.
When I have lots of apples I peel for other things, I cook the peelings and cores for the apple jelly. I have the sieve shapped like a cone with the wooden paddle to get the juice then strain it like my Mom taught me....let it drain, never squeeze it!
Give most of it away. My best friend's great grand-kids always send me a thank-you card.

Nan Quilts

Me too! I think this is a noble gesture, I mean we wouldn't want your family or friends to sick if there's something wrong with the jam/jelly! Would we??? LOL LOL LOL

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Dbl Trouble

I forgot to add we had all kind of fruit when I was a kid, sometimes we would take a salt shaker up in the big apple tree, they were big and sour. We had a mulberry tree, gooseberry bushes and went across the field to the railroad tracks and picked Mom elderberries that grew wild over there. I believe she added apple to the elderberry juice. Took a lot of the bitty berrys to make a batch.
We had a rhubarb patch that had such big leaves we used them for umbrellas when it rained. Such fun my sister and 5 brothers had, there is 9 years between the 7 of us. I was #3 and the first girl so I was Mom's helper.
Thanks for the good memories.