Gardening, canning, pickling and everything related
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I still remember picking corn, tomatoes, zucchini, and melons in my family’s little garden. Life was so much slower then.
samspade
Tried lkrfletcher cowboy candy recipe. would have looked better in small jelly jars but turned out great -
calldoctoday I grew up with my grandparents in my great-grandfathers farm house my grandfather was born in 1896 my grandmother was born in 1893 she taught in one room school houses my grandfather was home birthed in the house and died in the garden at 81 yrs. old I would not trade this experience for anything I feel lucky to have this past even though I was born in 1960
craigrice I was born in 1956, but was fortunate enough to be very close to my grandparents and even when very young, to my great grandparents. They taught me so much, not just skills that I used throughout my life, but a value system that is loss today.
As you, I feel very bless to have had them in my life. I still use so many of the tools from my grandfather and kitchen stuff from my grandmother. The skills I learned transended gender, I was as comfortable making a wedding cake or sewing as I was pulling an engine or tearing into electronics.
I get to see them live on not only through the things I do and equipment I use, but also through some of the traits of my daughter. While I adopted her, she cherishes much of my past and upbringing.
What remains is passing this on to my grandchildren.
I love the skills, talents, and values of the Meatgistics crew. Many of us are a link to the past while building the furture.
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samspade
Tried lkrfletcher cowboy candy recipe. would have looked better in small jelly jars but turned out greatRON PARRISH This is a great recipe. A thanks to lkrfletcher for posting it.
Insure our past and preserve our heritage and lets keep posting our recipes for furture generations. We can’t take them to the grave…
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I remember getting sweet corn by the bushel and slicing off the cob for canning. We had a bunch of small Tupperware containers that were stacked in the freezer, I never thought I would do that again but I love the sweet corn that way in the winter. Also going to my uncles and processing chickens that he raised, plucked a lot of chickens with my brothers one Saturday in the fall.
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craigrice my grandad died at 99. I can remember pulling up at his house in Tennessee when he was 90 and he was out in the August sun working the garden. I cant hold a candle to him or my dad. I lost Dad a year ago August 29th at 91 years. He was gardening until the end. I harvested his tomatoes last year and gave them to friends and family. I was lucky to have the family I have. Great parents, grandparents and many aunts and uncles that set the bar high.
GWG8541 I am very sorry to hear of that, but glad to hear that they both lived a wonderful life. We lost my last grandfather about 35years ago & my last grand mother who lived to be nearly 100 about 20 years ago. Both my parents have been gone in person now for many years as well. They just don’t make us like that any more, no matter how hard we try. Those folks were a whole lot of good things, all bundled up into one.
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samspade
Tried lkrfletcher cowboy candy recipe. would have looked better in small jelly jars but turned out great -
This is just from yesterday. Time for some cooking and canning. Had about the same amount of beans the day before.
GWG8541 Heck Yeah! Those will be great!
Life is a Garden - Dig it.
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GWG8541 Heck Yeah! Those will be great!
The work begins
“You never really die until you end up on the wall at a Cracker Barrel”
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GWG8541 but its a fun kind of work. I did 9 qts of dill pickles this morning. Cucumbers are just starting. The wife has picked over 2 bushel of beans. We still have so many canned from last year, we are giving most away. Just eating what we can fresh, but making a lot of other people happy.
hey vegetarians, my food poops on your food!
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GWG8541 but its a fun kind of work. I did 9 qts of dill pickles this morning. Cucumbers are just starting. The wife has picked over 2 bushel of beans. We still have so many canned from last year, we are giving most away. Just eating what we can fresh, but making a lot of other people happy.
kyle I find it more a blessing to give than to receive.
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GWG8541 but its a fun kind of work. I did 9 qts of dill pickles this morning. Cucumbers are just starting. The wife has picked over 2 bushel of beans. We still have so many canned from last year, we are giving most away. Just eating what we can fresh, but making a lot of other people happy.
kyle I’ve been giving a lot of tomatoes away. Chef is right, giving something that you have invested your time and treasure in, means a lot. Here is the final product of the tomatoes today. 4 quarts and 11 pints of marinara.
“You never really die until you end up on the wall at a Cracker Barrel”
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And some hot pepper vinegar
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GWG8541 but its a fun kind of work. I did 9 qts of dill pickles this morning. Cucumbers are just starting. The wife has picked over 2 bushel of beans. We still have so many canned from last year, we are giving most away. Just eating what we can fresh, but making a lot of other people happy.
I’m trying something different with my cabbage. Im trying a small batch of kraut with a gallon jar with a gas lock. Im just using salt and natural (lacto) fermentation. Hopefully it will work out. I plan on making some hot dogs soon and would love to have the kraut with them.
“You never really die until you end up on the wall at a Cracker Barrel”
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Chef AMEN! I learned that from my Dad. I really like giving fresh produce to the older folks that cant garden anymore. It seems to really brighten their day. Most cant’t afford the prices that are charged at the local farmers market, plus it gives me a chance to visit.
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GWG8541 Those peppers look great. What kind are they? My wife likes peppered vinegar on her turnip greens. Would like to try some.
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GWG8541 Those peppers look great. What kind are they? My wife likes peppered vinegar on her turnip greens. Would like to try some.
wdaly those are super chili’s. Just a little more heat than a regular chili pepper.
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GWG8541 good for you, funny how little things can make someones day. Around northern Wi, tomatoes are selling for $1+ a pound.
kyle prices are a little high here also. I agree on giving to older friends and family. I also take a few jars to some of them, especially the ones who I know used to can their own and are no longer able. After my Mom passed I was looking through her recipe cards and found her Pasta Sauce recipe for canning. Mom wrote down the name of a family friend who the recipe came from. She is still alive and in her upper 80s. I make sure she gets some when I can her recipe and produce. I canned that sauce for a few decades, but had no idea where it came from until Mom passed. Its nice to pay it forward and that it has really come full circle.
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GWG8541 - Came out great
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I’m trying something different with my cabbage. Im trying a small batch of kraut with a gallon jar with a gas lock. Im just using salt and natural (lacto) fermentation. Hopefully it will work out. I plan on making some hot dogs soon and would love to have the kraut with them.
GWG8541 - Never tried to make my own kraut. Looks good.
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