Ideally this post would be accompanied by a picture of all my pretty little jars, lined up on shelves, very pleasing to see. Unfortunately, said shelves are in a dark corner; flash-free photos don’t turn out and ones with the flash create a horrible glare, and I have too much to do to spend my days trying to get silly pictures of silly jam jars!
I haven’t canned anything in a couple of weeks now and I’m feeling like I’m done…too many other things to think about now. If I had a food mill and could quickly make some more apple sauce I surely would, but I don’t and the whole sitting around peeling and coring apples (and then mashing them by hand after cooking!) business has kind of lost it’s charm.
***drum roll please***
Final counts for “The Challenge“
- Apple Butter- 6 pints
- Apple Jelly- 5 pints
- Apple Sauce- 10 quarts, 3 pints
- Beans (dehydrated yellow, green and purple)- 2 quarts
- Beets (pickled)- 1 quart, 6 pints
- Blackberries (frozen)- 1 quart, gathered and frozen by my children
- Blueberries (dried)- 1 pint
- Blueberries (frozen)- 2 gallons, 8 quarts
- Blueberries (high-bush in water)- 4 quarts
- Blueberries (low-bush in water)- 24 quarts, 3 pints
- Blueberry Jam- 14 pints
- Blueberry Puree- 12 bitty jars
- Blueberry Syrup- 6 pints
- Broccoli (dehydrated)- 1 quart
- Peas (snow, frozen)- 2 quarts
- Peas (shelling, frozen)- 5 pints
- Peaches (halves canned in water)- 15 quarts
- Peach Jam (made with white peaches)- 8 pints
- Peach Puree- 9 bitty jars
- Peach Syrup- 6 pints
- Peppers (roasted Sweet Italian, pickled)- 2 pints
- Pesto (frozen)- 2 pints (stupid broken food processor…grumble, grumble)
- Plum Jam- 9 half-pints
- Salsa- 17 pints
- Sauerkraut (live cultured with a mix of green and red cabbage)- unsure what I will end up with as it is still fermenting.
- Strawberry Jam- 5 pints
- Strawberry-Rhubarb Jam- 3 pints
- Tomato Sauce- 1 quart, 4 pints (pathetic)
- Violet Jam (frozen)- 3 pints
- And various dried herbs.
Not bad, not great, but not bad. I know it was a lot of work, but it already seems to be flying off the shelves so quickly that it’s hard not to think that I should have done more.
Can anyone guess what all of our friends and family are getting for Christmas this year??
Now, if no one minds, I think I’d like to sit down for a bit. Of course, sitting down these days means sitting behind the sewing machine, working through my list of “to-make” baby things and holiday things, but at least it’s sitting, right? Right.
Good work Mama!!
wow. I’m impressed. And though my list is much more basic, I do have a final pot of applesauce on the stove.
You are amazing!
wow, that’s great! don’t you love looking at your full pantry at the beginning of winter, and savoring that feeling of satisfaction?
we’re almost done putting-away here, too. we’ll make lemon curd, lemon, orange, and lime marmalades, and candied citrus peel over the Christmas holidays, but that’s it until next summer! whew!