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I’d like to know who the crack pot is over at Ball canning who wrote up the recipe for pickled beets. It says 24 SMALL beets are needed to make 6, count ’em 6, pint jars of beets. Oh yeah? Try 27 small beets = 1 and 3/4 pints of beets. I guess I’ll wait Read More >>
I read somewhere online that you need roughly 21 lbs of shelling peas to equal 7 pint jars of canned peas. So this being the first year I have ever planted shelling peas, I was so excited when I brought in my 3 bowls full of peas. I went right to the scale and boy Read More >>
The handsome husband came home with 2 cases of rhubarb last night. A guy at work lives next to a farm and apparently 15 acres of the stuff went unpicked this year because they didn’t have enough buyers/would lose money picking it. So they were giving it away. Free works for me! I canned 26 Read More >>
I picked up 5lbs of rhubarb at the farmer’s market and canned 3 pints of rhubarb sauce to use this winter. I think I will use it to bake over some chicken. First lettuce harvest of the season. Arbors going up over the gates. I think I will plant them with wisteria. Then we Read More >>
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