Canning Blessings

Here are some random pictures of our canning year. We canned peaches, cherries, pork N beans, tomato sauce, apple sauce, beans, several kinds of jam (raspberry, Saskatoon, peach pit, peach) and 6 3/4 eleven quart recipes of salsa of various heats. I used every jar we had and then sent Papa out to find more and he came back with 10 doz from my grandpa!! And I used them up too. I have about 10 that we have emptied in the last little bit and that's the only usable canning jars I have left. I still had pears, and pickles from last year or the year before so I didn't do any this year. We also dried cherries, peaches, apples and hot peppers. And froze blueberries, raspberries. Some of the blueberries I'll make into jam this winter sometime and maybe syrup. The frozen raspberries are great with chocolate cake. I put a sour cream container of raspberries in a cake pan, put my cake mixture on top and bake. You have to bake it a bit longer then normal but it makes a great dessert. We put fresh cream or whipped cream on it!! This is a recipe I got from my aunt and we love it. The jars from Great Grandpa.

Under half the tomatoes and peppers we got out of the greenhouse. We made a batch of salsa with JUST our own pepper (green and hot) and tomatoes.

The kids making Raspberry Jam. The boys picked the berries, mashed them, mixed them with sugar and pectin and put them in the containers and put them in the freezer. E watched but didn't want to do the work of picking.

J and L's labed freezer jam!! Mummm muumm GOOD!!

E pulling stems off cherries.

The boys pulling stems off cherries. They de-stemed 2 boxes of cherries for me. ( I did 2 boxes myself.) It worked perfectly as they kept me in cherries til we were all done!!