Here's a couple home preserving projects, recipes and tips.
Salsa! Ingredients: Garlic, jalapenos, onions, tomatoes (and vinegar to help preserve it).
Getting the carrots ready for pickling.
And some for the freezer.
1. Wash jars, disinfect (either by hot water bath and in oven).
2. Put lids in hot water bath (to disinfect and soften).
3. Put pickling solution together (water, vinegar and salt).
4. Jar by jar (from hot water bath) add garlic cloves, dill and carrots.
6. Add pickling solution (cover carrots).
7. Put on lid and ring on
8 Put jars in hot water bath for 15 mins.
Picked the tomatoes and washed the jars the evening before hand.
Jars in the oven, to sterilize, but also to keep hot.
Steam tomatoes in hot water for 1 min.
Pull out and put into cold water immediately and de-skin.
Cut out stems/core.
The tomatoes are ready to put into jars.
Take jar from oven with tongs, add 2 tbsp. lemon juice. Then add tomatoes. Then add hot water (light boil) to jars to cover tomatoes. Remove air bubbles. Add lids and rings.
Can for 25 mins at 11 pounds of pressure OR put in hot water bath for 45 minutes (clock starts when the water is boiling).
All in a day's work.
More like 3 hours? (Guesstimate).
