started the day off by working on the back porch steps.....they are coming along...
Ross should have them done tomorrow...Jasmine gives her seal of approval....
then....canning...canning and more canning
washing the tomatoes....
then set up of the pans.....
starting from the left...washed tomatoes....hot water....cold water...
squeezing bowl....simmering bowl
in the hot water BLANCHE for 45 seconds....bigger tomatoes take a shorter
time than smaller ones......then spoon the tomato into the cold water for 1 -2 minutes...
then core and peel the tomato and place into the squeezing bowl....keep doing
this process until the squeezing bowl is full.....squeeze them by hand and dump
them into the simmering bowl....this is where you add all of your ingredients
depending on what you are making.
we made Spaghetti (recipe on January 1, 2012) and
Chili (recipe on January 9, 2012) in a 14 quart stock pot....
I think those recipes say a 12 quart...it should read 14
anything with tomatoes needs to be canned in the pressure cooker....not a hot water bath...
so 7 quarts go into the cooker and you set the disk on top to 5, 10 or 15 lbs
both the spaghetti and chili go for 25 minutes at 15 lbs of pressure....
we put up 27 quarts today....14 Chili.....13 Spaghetti
as Ross was heading up stairs to bed...he looked back into the kitchen and said that
he needed to take a picture of the kitchen / dining room...it is filled with canning from today
and plenty of vegetables to keep us busy tomorrow after church !!!
our Sheba dog got in the picture and I am off to the left at
BLOG CENTRAL typing this blog.
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Pleasant Dreams!!!
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