Well the canning has begun - tomatoes are started a bushel is canned into mostly soup this round, some stewed tomatoes with local peppers, onions and of course onions and some with a speck of basil and parsley. Round one of the applesauce adventure has been completed, just apples nothing but apples. Pears are on tap for today, then maybe more pears. I only do a light syrup so that the pears retain their natural sweet flavour. More tomatoes are in the garage for Thursday and they will mostly be stewed not soup. I still have a couple jars from last year in the fruit cellar and that is exactly how I like to begin my canning with just a little bit left over from last year.
The next batch of tomatoes will be chock full of onions, peppers, a hot pepper here and there, basil, parsley, and of course coarse salt for preserving power.
The oven looks like a roast pan of apples exploded and shot off the lid - oh wait! that is what happened! I have to remove the batteries from the smoke detectors in order to clean the oven - gotta love self clean eh!
So today continues with pears, and prep for tomatoes tomorrow. Syrup is on the stove for the pears and the pears have been de-beed and brought into the house. The pears are from my nephews tree and are of course organic.
Lady of the Oak
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