pickled

I preserve everything - really into it - jams, toppings, fruit butters and spreads, chutneys, pickles, tomatoes (whole, soups, suces, salsas etc), beets, fruit,something called "Too much" which is a concoction of honey, maple syrup and pumpkin and is really, really too much Esentially,if it can be pickled or otherwise preserved, then I do it. I use hot boiling method as well a pressure canner, have hundreds of jars and even more new lids (I use new lids each time as the rubber seal around the lid degrades significantly after each use).

I tend to buy my jars new in bulk - they're extremely cheap from a jar manufacturer (for me a few cents a jar) because then I get uniformity and precisely the size and shape I need (I have German genes ), and a clean jar with no nicks.

[ 07. November 2005, 11:40 PM: Message edited by: ellengray ]

 

Try WD40 to remove the glue, worked really well for me on a metal item

 

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Hope this is right this time

[ 29. December 2005, 08:19 PM: Message edited by: Paladin ]

 

Good to see many of you may be, or still are, interested in 'preserving'. It's not as popular as when I was a youngster perhaps. WI ladies excluded and from whom I often buy a cake. One thing about 'doing' your own stuff is you know what is actually in the final product, weather it be Pic/onions, chutneys, jams, home made marmalade [nothing nicer], wine etc, you are in charge. No flavour inhancers, funny numbers, sweetners, stabilisers and so on. And you can do it most of the year.

 

I have two boys - 7 and 10 - and each Christmas, Nanny gives us a jar of "home" pickled onions, which they devour at break-neck speed... this Christmas, we tried other pickles too, and all decided shop ones didn't even come close to home made, so later this year, we are going to do our own onions, picililli (sp?), chutney, etc.... so I will be no doubt picking your brains for recepies, etc.... we also came to the conclusion that you need lots of yummy home- made one in the summer when you eat your salads outside..... :D