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Published: 2017-06-05 03:01:52 +0000 UTC; Views: 2662; Favourites: 32; Downloads: 12
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Another favorite "art" of mine, is preserving foods.From a tree I have grown from a seed,
I picked enough apricots to create two batches of jam.
This is a very tasty jam.. especially when the fruit is freshly picked from the tree.
I look forward to collecting wild Elderberry's and Gooseberry's this summer.
Besides making jelly and jam, I also like to preserve my own canned foods.
Yes, this is not my usual postings.
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Looks delicious.. with that vivid deep color. It makes me want to create these kinds of preserves myself
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This years apricot Jam was just as pretty and very yummy!
I made enough jam, for holiday gifts.
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It was great Jam!
Last year was a great year for apricots!
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The flowers and fruit both possess strong medicine. The flowers are spiritual and the fruit is physical. Both provide instant joy of the most healing kind.
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I would love to do something llike this one day!!
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It is so easy, too.
Apricot is usually one of first fruits that is available in the spring.
You can make jam or Jelly from almost any fruit.
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Oh yes, scones or home made bread!
I just finished making pear jam...
it is as tasty as pie filling on toast!
Home made Jam is awesome,
compared to most store bought jam!
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Stop, Stop! Your killing me!
But I do agree on all your points.
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Making Jelly or Jam is so easy.
IF you can collect the fruit,
you would have the best results.
Try making jelly sometime. All you need is juice.
Jam, is a little more work.
You need to prepare the fruit and cook it down.
It is worth the effort!
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My mother use to can, and make jams and jellies. My favorite was the mint jelly from our own mint patch.
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There are a few jellies I have not done.
Mint is one of those.
I heard it is great with various meats, too.
I have a large mint patch,
I need to try making mint jelly!
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A few too many words for a Haiku, but I get what you mean!
A staple in Greek cooking! But I like mine on buttered toast.
From my experience, there are no small mint patches. Mine jumped the RR tie perimeter and colonized the surrounding flowerbeds and gravel path!
Go forth an jell the mint!
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Around here, I have found loads of mint growing near old homesteads,
or out around the dry creeks.
The wilderness can be fun to explore.
Most of the mint is dried out, this time of the year.
It is fun to find it, and transplant it to a moist environment.
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We have a lot of feral apple trees in the north county left over from old farmsteads.
Good on you for rescuing the mint!
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Now that would be fun place to watch the deer and animals,
that would be attracted to those trees.
FUN!
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It tastes as good as it looks!
I hope to be making Elderberry jelly, in a few weeks..
More yummy stuff!
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You appear to be stocked and ready for all the bad stuff that tomorrow is supposed to bring (no power grid, anarchy, reversal of the poles of the earth, other things Alex Jones and George Noory bring up which I can't recall now.) Yet somehow, our dumb civilization continues to dawdle on...
My mom used to can some fruits, as did her mom and other moms and dads like them. I consider this a "survival skill." One that is more tasty than the freeze dried buckets of God-knows-what that the survivalist stores sell online, including the current ministry operated by Jim Bakker. (I only found out about that from reading an article about him. I don't follow him. I feel sad for anyone who follows those guys.)
One of the local bars sells their mixed drinks in what appear to be Mason Jars.
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Mason jars would be a great way to get served an adult beverage!
I have food stored for three to six months.
My canned food, I try to create enough for next winter,
something like your mom and grandparents. Just to have food available.
I have been preserving foods for myself since the late 1970s.
I was hooked on Jam and Jellies, after I made my first pear jam.
Pear Jam was like putting pie filling on toast. YUMMY stuff.
I have studied some survival some skills, way before this FAD.
It is interesting to know what the pioneers and mountain men did to survive.
What the first nations had to survive for thousands of years is just as interesting.
Observing what foods are available to the individual, IF the need should arise.
It has been a fun study. Medicine, I think is the big problem for most survivalists.
IF one needs certain medicine, how would they get it from nature?
I have studied herb lore, not everything is found easy in the wilderness.
I don't think the survivalists have really thought that one through.
Stocking up my own home made food, has been wonderful.
Great tasting and we know what is in the jars!
How have you been, Jimmy?
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I have been okay. I really don't do much. I have a lot of work to do on my house but lack the initiative to do said work. As I am writing this, we hit 110 degrees. Fortunately we cool down over 20 degrees tomorrow so we can pretty much rule out "global warming." Nothing is going to get done when the weather is that hot. Just thankful the AC is functioning.
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I understand that home project problem and the heat all so well.
I'm glad to see you are still posting your stories, and on DA!
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Duuuude sweet 
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That apricot jam is sweet, Allison!
Some of my relatives think of me as a "pioneer"!
I have studied allot of the old "arts".
Many of these skills were common, 100 years ago.
Food preservation is just one I have studied, herb lore is another.
Maybe I could teach a class..
There are many old skills, that have been forgotten by most people.
There are a few of us who like to keep the traditions alive!
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this has got my mouth watering!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Food preservation is indeed a lost art.
Those who can do it have an edge!
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This apricot jam is yummy!
I know my wife thinks it is the best cot jam ever!
For many people, food preservation is a lost art.
I love finding old recipes for preserved food.
The many who do dabble into this fine art,
it is an awesome experience in personal TASTE.
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You are one up on the rest of the world that will be at a loss when the fast food stores are not functioning LOL
but seriously...I agree with you.
The option to customize and be creative while doing this is a wonderful opportunity .
I love food preservation.
Do you only practice canning or do you use the other methods as well?
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I would love to encourage others to try making their own jelly and jam.
Usually, Jelly is easier to learn, watching others creating preserved food,
than just reading instructions.
Making juice is the next easiest step into canning.
Then Fruit and Vegetables. The good stuff!
I also dehydrate meats and some foods.
I need to learn how my local Indian tribe,
dehydrates meat.. Yes, I'm still learning new skills!
FUN and CREATIVE stuff!
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I usually do create allot.
I like to stock up my supplies.
They also make great Christmas gifts!
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Oh God, my parents found nothing but perserative jars in my grandma's storage units and we got enough to start a business with them. They weren't happy that they were spending 2,000 dollars a year just to store jars that we're never going to use.
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Wow. Were those jars ever used?
Grandma must of thought those jars were very special.
$2000 a year.. ouch.
I found an very old house, several years ago, that had a basement full of used mason jars,
filled with various foods from the 1940s. I cleaned out those jars, and reused them.
That basement was a "time capsule", almost like nobody went down there for decades.
Lots of neat stuff.
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They just hoard them and never used them even though they bought tons of them in case they need to jar their food for a Nuclear war. Wow, the jars were safe to use even after cleaning all of them up? That's cool. Our kitchen is full of them right now and I don't know if we're going to give them away or recycle them. They did look up to see if they're worth anything.
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That family who lived in that house had allot stuff in there.
During the second World War, many Americans had "victory gardens",
and did allot of food preserving. There was allot of kitchen items from the 1930s.
Trunks full of quilts, family heirlooms, silverware, teacups.. neat stuff.
What I enjoyed finding were the light blue mason jars, that were common back then.
Sounds like you have allot of mason jars. Does anybody do food preserving?
Are these left overs from your grandmother's preserved food?
I would give give them away, IF you don't plan to use them.
I use the really big jars, I use to for juices. Quart sizes I put apple sauce and peaches in.
Smaller jars for jelly and jams.
These jars are expensive to those who use them.
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We did find those blue jars too while cleaning them out. Oh ya, they would jar everything from fruit to vegetables. My mother's grandmother did it with corn too. They even canned Grape juice. Also my grandfather, God Bless his soul, was a Doctor in WW2 but they moved around a lot while he was in the Philippines, looking after patients.
My mom had a friend who would make these really awesome Strawberry Jam and I would eat them up within a week and we would return the jar to her for more. I would eat it on toast with no peanut butter to show how great they are.
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Those old blue mason jars are sought out by collectors!
You should be able to sell those jars! (IF you still have them)
Your Grandmother was part of the old school of home food preservers!
Did she leave you any recipes?
Usually that generation was a wealth of knowledge on cooking food and preserving stuff.
Strawberry jam is a great recipe for beginners!
Ever put home made jam on ice cream? Oh yummy!
My first Jam was made with pears. Yummy stuff!
It was like putting pie filling on toast!
Canning juice is sooooo easy to make... Various Grape and Elderberry are my favorites.
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She's still alive and well but I don't know if she got the recipes around or not. She's getting to the point of her age where she doesn't remember which shirt I wore the other day and kept calling me Greg by accident. I think we still have them and I'll see if I can talked to my parents about looking for collectors of those blue jars and see if we can make better money off of them.
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Those jars are worth something to collectors.. or food presevers!
Craig's list might work..
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Very YUMMY, Melian!
I look forward to collecting wild berries in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
Picking those berries becomes an adventure!
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We have a lot of blackberry bushes on our property! We are really looking forward to a record harvest soon!
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Do you think you might start picking in late June?
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