Last year, I found a cool canning blog and tried her recipe for blueberry butter. It sort of worked and I vowed I would to can something again.
Well last summer we had to spruce up our old kitchen to make it show better and that left me limited to what I could really do. And once it was done in the fall, peak fresh, local goodies were limited.
Fast forward to this summer and the fact it seems at the new house there is a farm stand on every street. I even found a local blueberry farm near by. And this meant I was determined to can something.
And I have. I found that Ball canning has some pectin and pickle spice mixes that you can use to make small batches. The jam makes 16 ozs and the pickle mix makes 3 cups of liquid. No large batches of things for me to forget about. I mentioned the strawberry jam a couple posts ago, but I also made 2 batches of blueberry jam. I also made 5 jars of pickles.
I think the next item is some salsa. And I'm saving some 4 oz jars for a batch of apple butter in the fall-- yummy!
(I mention Ball products but I'm not getting anything to do so. I've actually given them some money this summer for all the jars and stuff I needed to do this)
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