Heath and I spent the evening on Wednesday making and canning our families favorite salsa. It is good to have it done and stocked in the cupboards again!!
Chips, Anyone?
A while back I had bought a load of strawberries and our home teachers gave us some peaches. I sliced them and put them in the freezer with the intentions of making jam. So since I was in the "canning" mood, I roped Ashley into making freezer jam. We made two batch's of strawberry, one strawberry-peach, and 4 batch's of raspberry. (we just had made 2 - we didn't follow the instructions correctly, so they were runny ... we tried again ... and this time we followed the instructions exactly and still this morning ... runny raspberry jam. UMMMM .. should I try again? I am bound and determined to figure out why the raspberry didn't gel up ... any suggestions?)
Chips, Anyone?
A while back I had bought a load of strawberries and our home teachers gave us some peaches. I sliced them and put them in the freezer with the intentions of making jam. So since I was in the "canning" mood, I roped Ashley into making freezer jam. We made two batch's of strawberry, one strawberry-peach, and 4 batch's of raspberry. (we just had made 2 - we didn't follow the instructions correctly, so they were runny ... we tried again ... and this time we followed the instructions exactly and still this morning ... runny raspberry jam. UMMMM .. should I try again? I am bound and determined to figure out why the raspberry didn't gel up ... any suggestions?)
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I WILL BE BRING LOTS OF CHIPS. THE SALSA LOOKS GREAT. I DON'T HAVE A CLUE ABOUT THE RUNNY JAM. IT LOOKS GOOD THOUGH
Funny...I am just in the process of doing jam, too! My peach jam was a little runny. I read on the instructions that fruit that is overripe produces runny jam while fruit that isn't ripe enough will produce jam that is too firm. I have also found that if I double the recipe...it NEVER works. It always ends up runny for some strange reason. I'm impressed with your salsa! I've yet to try hot water bathing type of canning! Next year is my year!
Some of my raspberry freezer jam ended up runny too. I don't know why. We just use it for waffles.
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