Fruit's On!

[cattleskinner]

I figured I'd post to show off a batch of Red Raspberry Jam I made last night. It made about 9 1/2 half pint jars full. I also made some Dandelion Jelly this spring, but got the pectin messed up, and it was a bit runny. Makes a great glaze for pork and chicken though. Now that it is getting time for fruit to ripen, how many of you make this stuff too.

~Amos

[sundog]

Oh, yeah. Won't that be most enjoyable on a home made biscuit some morning next winter when the snow is flying ?

[garandsrus]

I made three batches of strawberry jam this year :) I plan to do raspberry also but I don't think they are ripe in MI yet.

John

[theperfessor]

You guys are making me hungry! :-D

[leadeye]

Blackberries will be coming on soon and in 3 months we will have blackberry wine to drink. Just in time to go out and find paw paws.:-D

[pmeisel]

Wife bought jars yesterday to can fig jam this week. Still have some from last year, but what they hey......

[GSM]

Float a scoop of vanilla ice cream in some right now.

[Rick N Bama]

We've made some Peach Butter this week. The Figs will be ready in about 2 weeks & Apples sometime in August. Good Eats for sure!

Rick

[Junior1942]

You guys ever tried mayhaw jelly? It's tart and sweet and just begs to be slathered on a biscuit. Maybe next year I can make some. I went mayhaw picking this year, but the deer beat me to the fruit. You can buy it in stores here, but it is weak. I'm sure they water down the juice to increase profits.

[leadeye]

Never heard of mayhaws what would you compare them to taste wise? We have hawthorne trees here but never thought about making jelly from them. The deer and geese like them though.

[DLCTEX]

I don't have a clue what a Mayhaw is. We have wild Plums (Sand Cherries,Mustang Grapes, and blackberries that grow wild here which we gather and juice for jelly. We freeze the juice and store it in freezer bags to be used whenever the need arises. The blackberries mostly go to cobbler. I'm talking myself hungry.

[Junior1942]

Mayhaw is a variety of hawthorne. The fruit is bright red and marble-sized. They're tart like a wild apple. Here, they ripen in April. It takes a gallon jug of them for a making of jelly. The jelly is pink and tastes tart & sweet. Delicious!!!

[DLCTEX]

I was googling it while you were posting Junior. It says they grow in low, wet areas and acidic soils. They wouldn't last a week up here in our dry alkaline soil. Barely can myself. Sounds as if they may grow in Florida, I'll have to check with my sons and see if they can get me some juice. Maybe I can swap them some prickly pear juice.

[leadeye]

Mayhaws sound like they might make a good wine.:-D

[oneokie]

Wife bought jars yesterday to can fig jam this week. Still have some from last year, but what they hey......

This is part of what the wife and I will be canning soon.
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[pmeisel]

Oneokie, sugar them up overnight. When you boil them down, low and slow, allow for several hours. To check the consistency, put a couple tablespoons of juice in a coffee cup and set it in the fridge for ten minutes to see how it will jell up. If it is too juicy for you just boil it some more.

I have never done this, but I told the wife someone wanted to know! Good stuff, she just had me taste a little.

Your figs look good.

[pmeisel]

Found this link on canning figs today. It's exactly what my wife does, but there is a little more explanation on the whys....... Thought I would share, and props to Professor Reed for putting it on his website.

http://generalhorticulture.tamu.edu/prof/Recipes/FigsCanned/FigsCanned.html

[oneokie]

Thanks for the link. Very helpful.

[RayinNH]

oneokie, I wouldn't can those tens. By the time you open them they won't be worth a thing :smile:...Ray

[oneokie]

oneokie, I wouldn't can those tens. By the time you open them they won't be worth a thing :smile:...Ray

ROTFLMAO

Times get that bad, and I have a feeling that they may, will use them in the outhouse. A few ink stains won't bother me. :cool:

[Stick_man]

We are getting ready to make up some jalapeno jelly pretty soon. The peppers are almost ready to pick. A little later this summer, will be doing a garden veggie juice (similar to the V8 juice but WAYYYYY better). In the fall, it is time to juice the grapes and apples. Mix the two juices together with some Sprite and it makes for a great family drink that even the little kids can enjoy.

Mmmmmmmmm. :bigsmyl2:

[pmeisel]

4 more jars of figs canned yesterday. And there's more not ripe enough to pick yet.

She also bought 15 pounds of cucumbers at the farmer's market and made I don;t know how many jars of pickles.....

[Mtman314]

I got a dozen gallons of choke cherry juice in the freezer. also dried a bunch to make pemmican.

[gon2shoot]

Mtman, them chokecherries mixed with pinon or pine nuts roasted makes fer good eatin.

[Wayne Dobbs]

I remember my mother and grandmother making jelly from all the dewberries and mustang grapes we picked in South Texas when I was a child. I also recall that no matter what precautions were taken, I always came home with an industrial strength load of chiggers!

[UweJ]

wife ´s been at it for weeks now, strawberry,blueberry,apple,rasberry,cherry marmelade. Everything that comes out of the garden or neighbors bring over. It´ll last well over the winter and homemade in my opinion is just the best,yum yum.
Uwe

[Bad Water Bill]

Mtman314 I have been looking for a good recipe for pemican.Would you share your secrets?