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Feeling very retro!

December 12, 2009 by Shannon  
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So I finally got over my nervousness over it’s math component- and learned to preserve & can!!

For my first project I made Strawberry Preserves with orange liqueur! Below are a few pictures of the experience.

The first one here, is of the ingredients in the strawberry preserves… strawberries, sugar, lemon, water, fruit pectin & orange liqueur.

Below are the strawberries,  sugar and pectin coming up to over 200 degrees. It smelled soooo yummy, and the color was really pretty. Wouldn’t these boiling strawberries be  nice computer wallpaper? :)

Okay, next I scooped the strawberries into mason jars and fit them with lids and screwbands, and put them in my water bath to can them. They boiled here for 10 minutes…

After they cooled, and I checked that they were all vacuum sealed, I made little labels and cloth tops for them! And soon they will be given away as Christmas gifts!!!! Yay for learning new things!!!

So in short, I feel very retro and 50′s homemaker now!

Also, should the end of the world come- my family will be safer because I can make, and can jam for us to live off of in our fall out shelter.

lol.





Shannon

Shannon recently left New York City and busy career in TV production, to move to Texas and marry her soul mate. She feels blessed to be a stay at home mom, to a beautiful & zany 15 month old. Her blog features recipes, stories of new motherhood, and giveaways! Check her out at: Milk and Cuddles


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3 Comments on "Feeling very retro!"

  1. HappyCampers on Sun, 13th Dec 2009 4:08 pm 

    I SOOOOO want to learn to make my own preserves! My Grandma always pear preserves from our pear tree at home and it is still my favorite in the world. Great job!!!!

  2. bianca on Mon, 14th Dec 2009 1:53 pm 

    I LOVE canned preserves! Especially strawberry ones! SO yummy – congrats on canning. Here’s to many more cans :)

  3. Pam on Thu, 17th Dec 2009 9:48 pm 

    Isn’t it fun? And not as hard as you’d think!

    My first foray into canning:
    http://pamsangleofrepose.blogspot.com/2008/07/domesticity.html

    And then, getting comfortable with it:
    http://pamsangleofrepose.blogspot.com/2009/09/were-all-gonna-starve.html

    At Thanksgiving, I canned jars of cranberries with roasted shallots and ruby port for gifts. Last week, I made my Christmas gifts – 30+ jars of cranberry jalapeno jelly!

    Keep on canning!

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