Canning and freezing fruit

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Hi All,

I am attempting for the first time to can and freeze some fruit for

the winter months.

Does anyone have experience with this? I am trying to determine what

is better to freeze and what is better to can...and when I can items

what can be put in with it if anything. I just bought a Kenmore Food

Saver with bags and containers.

Any helpful hints are appreciated.

I plan on doing peaches, strawberries and other seasonal fruit.

mom to Joey 3 1/2 ASD and SCD 14 months

[Guest guest]

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The net has great canning ideas. Try BerNARdin. I bought their canning kit years

ago and I can every year. They have a great instruction booklet.

Charlene

UC 8 years

SCD 5 1/2 years

Hi All,

I am attempting for the first time to can and freeze some fruit for

the winter months.

Does anyone have experience with this? I am trying to determine what

is better to freeze and what is better to can...and when I can items

what can be put in with it if anything. I just bought a Kenmore Food

Saver with bags and containers.

Any helpful hints are appreciated.

I plan on doing peaches, strawberries and other seasonal fruit.

mom to Joey 3 1/2 ASD and SCD 14 months

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[Guest guest]

THank you.

Do you can all your fruit...or do you freeze some. Are there

certain fruit you have difficulty with.

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> The net has great canning ideas. Try BerNARdin. I bought their

canning kit years ago and I can every year. They have a great

instruction booklet.

>

> Charlene

> UC 8 years

> SCD 5 1/2 years

>

> Hi All,

>

> I am attempting for the first time to can and freeze some fruit

for

> the winter months.

>

> Does anyone have experience with this? I am trying to determine

what

> is better to freeze and what is better to can...and when I can

items

> what can be put in with it if anything. I just bought a Kenmore

Food

> Saver with bags and containers.

>

> Any helpful hints are appreciated.

>

> I plan on doing peaches, strawberries and other seasonal fruit.

>

>

> mom to Joey 3 1/2 ASD and SCD 14 months

>

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I usually freeze strawberry jam and can the rest. I can peaches in diluted white

welch's grape juice. I can pickles and usually the rest of my fruit I make into

fruit leather ( I have a dehydrator). I have made grape juice out of concord

grapes as I have a stove top juicer as well. I can this as well into hot 1 litre

mason jars.

Charlene

THank you.

Do you can all your fruit...or do you freeze some. Are there

certain fruit you have difficulty with.

>

> ,

>

> The net has great canning ideas. Try BerNARdin. I bought their

canning kit years ago and I can every year. They have a great

instruction booklet.

>

> Charlene

> UC 8 years

> SCD 5 1/2 years

>

> Hi All,

>

> I am attempting for the first time to can and freeze some fruit

for

> the winter months.

>

> Does anyone have experience with this? I am trying to determine

what

> is better to freeze and what is better to can...and when I can

items

> what can be put in with it if anything. I just bought a Kenmore

Food

> Saver with bags and containers.

>

> Any helpful hints are appreciated.

>

> I plan on doing peaches, strawberries and other seasonal fruit.

>

>

> mom to Joey 3 1/2 ASD and SCD 14 months

>

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[Guest guest]

To freeze blueberries and other similar fruits...

I wash them very well, and lay them out on a pizza pan or cookie sheet to dry,

might want to gently run a paper towel over them. When the water has dried, I

set them and the pan in the freezer. When the blueberries are frozen, I will

them bag them up in a freezer bag.

The only freezer bags I will use are Natural Value, they are cheap and do not

contain polyvinyl plasticizers, and work equally well alongside any other

freezer bag.

If you haven't canned before, I would get used to it by sticking with high

acid foods like tomatoes, tomato sauce and pickles, then move onto canning other

foods. I prefer to freeze my berries and fruits, I do this in small batches with

small bags so I don't have to yank big amounts out of the freezer come winter.

For peaches, I blanche them quickly, makes the skin easy to peel off, cut in

half, remove pit, then make whatever size slice you desire and freeze.

For greens like chard or spinach, I quickly blanche them, dry them a bit then

bag them.

Using small bags for all this work is the height of convenience when you

prepare meals and need to dethaw stuff in the future.

I see it as alot of work now, but this winter, it will balance out with little

kitchen work and prepared local food.

The best plastic containers to store in the freezer are plastics number 2 and

5.

Summer

joeyjaymorris wrote:

Hi All,

I am attempting for the first time to can and freeze some fruit for

the winter months.

Does anyone have experience with this? I am trying to determine what

is better to freeze and what is better to can...and when I can items

what can be put in with it if anything. I just bought a Kenmore Food

Saver with bags and containers.

Any helpful hints are appreciated.

I plan on doing peaches, strawberries and other seasonal fruit.

mom to Joey 3 1/2 ASD and SCD 14 months

Summer's Family, SCD 08/04 http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/openblooms/

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[Guest guest]

> Hi All,

>

> I am attempting for the first time to can and freeze some fruit

for

> the winter months.

>

> Does anyone have experience with this? I am trying to determine

what

> is better to freeze and what is better to can...and when I can

items

> what can be put in with it if anything. I just bought a Kenmore

Food

> Saver with bags and containers.

>

> Any helpful hints are appreciated.

>

> I plan on doing peaches, strawberries and other seasonal fruit.

>

>

> mom to Joey 3 1/2 ASD and SCD 14 months

>

>

>

>

>

>

> Summer's Family, SCD 08/04

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/openblooms/

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