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MerBear OriginalsIf I never see another I'll be happy. I spent the holiday weekend canning 5 bushels of tomatoes - into sauce and vegetable pasta sauce. I no sooner finished the last batch Monday afternoon when my husband walked into the kitchen and told me that the grapes were ready - was I making jelly? Luckily for him I bit my tongue and asked if they could wait til the weekend. Unfortunately due to the birds they couldn't so now the grape juice is dripping and tonight I make jelly!
I must say I love having the jars of sauce on my shelves - gives me almost as warm a feeling as looking at all my mohair!
Marion
Charlotte Des Roches DesignsYummy!!!!!!!
Harvest time is a lot of work...but so rewarding 
Hugs &
PottersHouse BearsMarion,
I know your pain. I have been canning for the past three weeks. I have done tomatoes by the bushel, beets, pickles, beans and corn. I still have to do applesauce, more beans and corn, and who knows what else. I took Labor Day weekend off and we took a small vacation. I sure needed that. As tired as I get, though, I know this food is going to taste so good when the snow is flying outside. And that is not that far away.
Claudia's KnuffelbaerenYummy!!!!!!!Yummy!!!!!!!Yummy!!!!!!!
I made pasta sauce too ... I love the selfmade sauce !
The next thing what I'm doing is ..... Red Wine Jelly!
I got Red Wine grapes at the weekend!
I never did it befor and I hope it will work! 
LuxembearsSounds very YUMMY.
Hey, how about tomato jelly!?? 
Claudia's KnuffelbaerenSounds very YUMMY.
Hey, how about tomato jelly!??
Hi hi . perhaps I should find that out
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TOMATO JELLY
4 c. sugar
4 c. tomato juice
1 lg. box Jello strawberry or raspberry
Boil juice and sugar 15 minutes. Add 1 box Jello stir well. Pour into jelly jars and seal. Makes 3 pints.
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TOMATO JELLY
2 c. strained tomato juice
3 c. sugar
1 env. Pure Fruit Pectin
Boil tomato juice, stir in pectin and bring to a boil. Stir in the sugar until well dissolved, bring to a rolling boil and boil for 3 to 3 1/2 minutes. Remove from heat, let stand a minute, skim and pour into hot sterilized jars or glasses for jelly.
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Flying Fur StudiosI'm kinda jealous.
1 because you have the space to grow stuff
2, because the food is going to taste sooo good.
It's such an honest way of prepairing foods and eating.
Creative Design Studio (RKR4CDS)I am SOOoo glad I'm among compatriates here!!!
Don and I were raised in families that would put up most of our garden produce and other fruit & veg that we bought from the farmers locally.
There are some things that we just won't give up; our own chili sauce (condiment in the Better Homes & Gardens Cookbook) corn, green beans, jams/jellies, plums, peaches, etc..
Aug and Sept are pretty much given up to freezing/canning instead of bearmaking, but your hands get too grubby what with the heat and humidity anyway to be working with wool & needles!
Give me October any day!!!
Baird'sBears
It sounds wonderful!
We don't have enough sunshine in any one spot to grow a tomato. 
Before the trees shaded everything we did manage a crop of cherry tomatoes, which my 2-year-old ate.
Then we managed a small corn crop, which the raccoons ate.
Posts: 8,574This is the first year that I haven't had a garden....But I have big plans for next year.
Congratulations!
I'll bet your exhausted!
gollyhugs
dilu
MerBear OriginalsActually I feel somewhat lazy cause I'm really only doing tomatoes. I used to freeze, can, pickle, dry, etc. everything in sight when all the kids were home. I'll probably get another couple of bushels of tomatoes this weekend and make more sauce. I'm also somewhat spoilt cause I have an electric saucemaker - I just feed the cut tomatoes in the hopper and the skins and seeds are pressed out - which the pigs and chickens love. I also have large pressure canners for processing them after it's been cooked down. I doubt that I'm saving any money by doing this but the satisfaction of having them is well worth the trouble.
Marion
Oh wow, CANNING!! It is soooo satisfying to have that home canned-food put up, and nothing tastes better either. I haven't been able to have a garden since we moved here 3 years ago......too much going on otherwise with fixing things up and such. And I do miss the canning. Especially the pickles, jellies and applebutter. It's work, but oh so worth it! I'm planning to start a garden next spring, and I still have all my canning supplies, so next year I'll be right in there with ya!
Creative Design Studio (RKR4CDS)applebutter
LOL - forgot about that one! Thx Tracy!
My one experience with that one was with several bushels of apples - - over 30 years ago - and the subject came up again just yesterday...
You know how some of the dental anesthetics are clove flavored? Guess what's in apple butter... ???
Continually stirring batch after batch, my taste buds went numb. Suffice to say that it took us years to finish the pints, as we had to dilute most of the batches with up to two or three parts applesauce and one part applebutter...
Family memories that the kids love to drag out at harvest time!
You know how some of the dental anesthetics are clove flavored? Guess what's in apple butter... ???
Continually stirring batch after batch, my taste buds went numb. Suffice to say that it took us years to finish the pints, as we had to dilute most of the batches with up to two or three parts applesauce and one part applebutter...
:crackup: :crackup: :crackup: :crackup: :crackup: A bit too much clove, eh? Oh, that's funny!! :crackup: :crackup:
LutonSounds fab!!
Ths closest I get to a jar of sauce is when I pick it up from the supermarket shelf !!! That's us townies!!!
Homemade food - yum!!!!!
Hugs
Claire
Matilda Huggington-beareIt takes me back to my chidhood. :hug: All warm and fuzzy memories
As a teenager living in Adelaide. Mum and Dad would come down to visit and there would be wonderful jars of Mum's preserves. She'd take home the empty jars :hug:
There is nothing that spell's a mothers love more clearly than a jar of her preserves. :hug:
aawwwee ssshhhuuuckks :redface:
Back Road BearsI feel like I'm hugely missing out here!
No one in my family ever did any canning when I was growing up.
And I hate to cook ANYTHING. The whole canning thing always sounded like such a chore to me.
Besides, I don't like fruit or veggies (that's why I eat so much chocolate... gotta eat something! :crackup: )
But 'listening' to all of you chat about canning makes me which I knew how and had the patience! Sounds like such a warm and homey thing to do and I bet it'll all taste so yummy in the middle of winter!
If any of you end up with more than you know what to do with you can send it my way! I'll take the tomato sauce and apple anything.... hubs will eat the rest!! 
