The canning experiment is completed. Among the things I learned:
Lay everything out before heating stuff up; having everything done and no lids sucks.
Canning uses a lot of water, and lots of water takes a long time to heat up.
Lay everything out before heating stuff up; having everything done and no lids sucks.
Canning uses a lot of water, and lots of water takes a long time to heat up.
Water heats up faster if you use a flat-bottomed pot on a glass-top stove instead of one designed for a gas stove.
Packing cucumbers into hot jars can be frustrating and uncomfortable.
The smell of pickling mix can flash one's memory back to Thanksgiving in your great-grandmother's dining room during the early '70s.
The random pings of canning lids sealing can make a pessimistic Wife all happy.
6 comments:
Haven't made cucumber pickles in years; these days I usually just make okra pickles.
BobG,
I haven't heard of those; I thought okra is usually fried.
Okra is good pickled, and is a necessary (IMHO) component in proper gumbo.
Good pickled okra is good.
Damn, this made me think of Dad's mother; the grandparents had a BIG garden, and what wasn't used fresh she canned.
Firehand & BobG-
I'll have to see if okra grows well in the local temperature zone; I don't recall ever having it, but if it grows here it would make for another new thing to grow next year.
It is good. I don't grow any up here, but used to have it when I lived down south.
I've never seen fried pickles up here either A treat you have to try just once.
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