What are you canning now?

[ducks4you]

@Finnie , you DO KNOW that you can write on the lids with a Sharpie?
I recycle metal, so I wash the lids after I remove them--we all know that they will only seal Once--and it takes scrubbing to remove the marker, so it lasts.
ANYWAY VERY NICE JOB CANNING!!!

 

[Rhodie Ranch]

Beautiful jars of gold!!

 

[Finnie]

t's too bad you weren't closer, we have several dozen pint jars we're not too likely to touch and they're too nice to get rid of (i do use some for strawberry jam but not that many) and you could have them for nothing. if you find yourself heading through mid-Michigan give me a holler...

That is a very generous offer. Thank you! I will have to try to remember that if I do.

@Finnie , you DO KNOW that you can write on the lids with a Sharpie?
I recycle metal, so I wash the lids after I remove them--we all know that they will only seal Once--and it takes scrubbing to remove the marker, so it lasts.
ANYWAY VERY NICE JOB CANNING!!!

Thank you!
Only seal once… There is already Sharpie writing on those that I couldn’t get off.

Beautiful jars of gold!!

Thank you!

So I did go buy more jars on Thursday. And I got sidetracked by going to other stores as well and only ended up getting two canner loads run. Then yesterday I got an early start and managed to fit 3 canner loads in. (And make another run to buy yet more jars.) I didn’t replace quite as much water this time because I figured I was getting near the limit of the bones’ productivity. But they didn’t look spent yet, so I let them keep cooking another night and today’s plan (Saturday) is to can whatever liquid is left and call it quits. Not going to add any more water and not going to buy any more pint jars. I might just use my existing quart jars if necessary. Or I could do half pints. I have a lot of those.

 

[Finnie]

Last 8 pints in the canner and here is what’s left.

So 65 pints total from this many bones, and about 96 hours of slow cooking. 8 times running the canner:

 

[ducks4you]

This is a copy of what I posted on my thread:
Family is heading out to Billie Creek this afternoon. I will join them for a few hours tomorrow.
Last evening I was tasked with:
bread making--2 loaves, which tasted great when I cleaned my fingers off!
corn muffin making--packaged up, and tasted great when I cleaned the bowl!
and
biscuit making.
I'm not sure about the taste of the biscuits. HOWEVER, I did use a "King Arthur Flour" recipe that called for 6 tablespoons of butter and I used 1/2 and 1/2 and I rolled them out and folded over 4x.
They look great. We'll see about the taste. I think they could have used more sugar.
I remade my grape jelly. I was using old pectin--something I won't do again.
I also added sugar and boiled the heck out of it for 90 minutes to reduce. Last jar was an incomplete pint, so I fridged it and it is jelling.