I celebrated voting day today by doing alittle canning. My first attempt at real fruit. For our girls weekend in Oct we picked the pears off the pear tree at the ranch and brought them home. They look great in the bottle and I hope they are great tasting!! I used apple juice as the juice so it's cloudy I'm gonna do a regular sugar syrup for the next batch. I also couldn't find quart jars I still have to hunt some down. I'll go alittle later tonight or tomorrow. I still have 3/4 of the basket full of pears. Thanks girls for helping pick them!!! 
These are my fancy tools I thought as long as I was doing pears I should use a paring knife.
This is our beautiful basket of pears. This is how many I still have left.
I just did one bowl and I got 13 pint jars out of the bowl full. Yeah for whoever said you don't have to do amillion jars in one day...this basket may take me all week - Or I'll have to borrow a bigger pot.
I forgot to put alittle butter in the mix to keep the bubbles down but they scooped off great!
Someone talk to me here!! I did the boiling everything and turning the jar upside down and the jars sealed. For jam that is enough.....is a sealed lid a sealed lid?? They are beautiful aren't they!!! Actually they look like eggs. Lindy I need to know about doing the butter!!! that may be my next project. Oh I guess I need to finish the pears. I can't wait to see them in quart jars!!
4 comments:
Myrna they look beautiful! How blessed you are to get those beautiful pears. I sure do miss you! I was so excited to see that table you were working on. Looks good.
The pears look fantastic! I'm totally excited about them.. too bad I can't help answer any of your questions since I've never canned myself..
It was so fun seeing you last friday and then again on saturday!!! I love the get togethers!!! to bad we can't do it more often...but atleast we have plans to see each other once a month!! love you!
ok..i love the pics of canning...but i love more that i was a recipient of one. i have to be honest...i want to open them and eat them up, but they are so beautiful sitting on my counter that i can't bear to do it. counting down til our dec. get together! love you and congrats on a few new posts! a rule of thumb, always post something first before getting lost in blog hopping!
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