Home Canning

I used to make my own bread and jams , I don't do that now as it is too expensive , I still make my own home made soups and stews , I occasionally by a quick frozen mail for my youngest son as he likes them though . I feel there are too many drive through and ready meals bought , Young people have given up baking and making their on meals , this is such a shame I think xx

You're lucky in a way...I wished I could have seen the process of home canning...Neither my mother nor grandmother were into doing that, but my great-grandmother did...but then like most people, once "can" cans came into the market, even my great-grandmother must have stopped her own canning...I used to actually do my own freezing of foods though...get fresh vegetables than blanch them for awhile and freeze...closest I got to homemade canning I guess, but without the Mason jars... I'm beginning to think though with all the problems now that we have with our food supplies and contaminations, people just might take up the art of canning again!

We make a lot of jam and chutney every year and sometime we will make preserved fruits in lovely jars. I love seeing them all lined up on the pantry shelves. We mostly use wild fruits, one of my favourites is rosehip and crabapple jelly, thats delicious on bread or with meat.

I enjoy canning and have been growing a garden to do just that every year. I usually go tomatoes so I can make spaghetti sauce, barbeque sauce and canned tomatoes, I also grow cucumbers that I make bread and butter pickles, it was one of my Mom's favorites when she was alive, this year I am going peppers that I am wanting to can and give as christmas gifts. If you need some recipies, I have some online I could forward them to you so you can enjoy this fun!

I am canning this year for the first time. It is so easy. I would recommend getting the Ball Blue Book of Preserving. I found it in the same aisle with the canning supplies at Wal mart. It's about $7.00. I have a small garden and I am overwhelmed with tomatoes and peppers. I am making salsa, pepper relish and tomato sauce to can. I can't wait to try it all this winter when it is cold and everyone else is eating tomatoes from the store in tin cans. I will be eating tomatoes from my garden.

Canning is very simple. I am 76 and I still can all my own foods for us. I love canning and it is a lot of fun. May cookbooks and some websties offer recipes for canning and they are so easy to follow. This is one way to eat healthier and enjoy all your fruits and veggies year round. I would encourage you to do this. You will be so happy you did.

I have canned fruits when we had a garden or were near where we could buy a whole lot of cheap fruit. However, I prefer to freeze now. My garden is small and I can put a little in a ziplock bag at a time. Also although I have tried vegetables, we wound up putting them in the fridge and eating them the next day or so. I never tried meat and I hear unless you follow the directions precisely, it is dangerous. Also you have to seal the lids properly and make sure you have enough water to cover. I would rather eat the food fresh or put them in the freezer. It is easier.

When I lived at my Dads growing up, my stepmother canned too. My dad had 3 huge gardens and we would have 2-3 weeks straight of canning. And it was always great in the winter to bring them jars up from the basement. She doesn't do it anymore but I'd love to learn. LIVE IN PEACE

Hi there. When I was growing I also watched my grandma bottled fruit, jam, pickles and relishes, all these foods she would bottle and give out to the family... I never really took the time to learn, although I watched her boil fruit down, I didnt really take it all in, like I should have, now I have children this method of preserving food would come in really handy...

Where I come from, we never had this experience of canning food. It is a new experience which I have only learnt from from watching some western movies or dramas. It looks interesting and I bet it tastes yummy, but with today's pace and technology, does anyone really have the patience or the time to do this? I wonder

Wow I remember doing that with my Grandma. We had what you called a spring house. clear spring ran right through the little shed/house for keeping the canning jars. It was a lot of work. Grandma canned everything she could get her hands on. We had wild blackberry bushes growing everywhere. I remember Grandma putting on a long sleeve flannel shirt on me so the briars would not get me. I would have to have a full bucket (old lard bucket) so she could make a pie. and when she said she wanted to can some I remember crying because I had put all the work into it and wanted my blackberry cobbler! How innocent life used to be. Thanks for the memories. No i don't can now. its just hubby and I. He wanted me to can some tomatoes as we had quite a few. But he did not understand if you did not already had the stuff to can it cost quite a bit to gather everything to be able to can. So we gave tomatoes away. Helped the neighbors anyway from not having to buy at a store.