Every Bit Counts Challenge 2024 - Week 1

[@rickandsally]

I would love your recipe for the tea you make using peach powder!

[@PlowAndPantryHomestead]

I don't really use a recipe with measurements. I just add about half a tablespoon to my tea blend.

[@lindah5910]

I pressure canned 60 ears of white sweet corn grown locally as it is a project I do every other year. It's the only thing I can in summer; it's just too hot here for I could live on an ice floe me. I did get up at like 3am on a Saturday morning in late June to jar up the de-cobbed corn in the fridge and then pressure can the pint jars. It was all done and cooling by 8am, just when the temperature started climbing. I admire your fortitude in canning and preserving so much in such a short period of time. Wow! Thanks for sharing your enviable progress!

[@PlowAndPantryHomestead]

Thanks for stopping by again! That's a lot of corn at one time!

[@MissPeachCobbler]

Hi 🖐🏽 Linda. I don't usually share about my canning. But today in a gifted Instant pot, I canned 4 pints of chicken and beef 😮in a hour & 15 mins. I have all the old fashioned pressure canners. But this was a quick way to replenish our hurricane 🌀 pantry and believe me. Just before Beryl hit, I'd canned meatloaf and mixed veggies which hubby took to work.🤣they were done in regular pressure canner. I digress. That Instant pot never heated up the house. I too wait until dark or wee hours to can here in Houston ❤

[@lindah5910]

@@MissPeachCobbler Greetings, Miss Peach! Nicely done you. It surprises me every two years that it takes 55 minutes at pressure to can corn just off the cob. I keep an earthquake pantry here in the agricultural wonder and so so hot San Joaquin Valley in too sunny California. I keep my canned jars in boxes on wire shelves in a bedroom closet where the boxes couldn't fall off even if they did double flips trying to. Take care and watch out for those too frequent hurricanes.

[@MissPeachCobbler]

@@lindah5910 ☺️🥳🙌🏽 I will and thank you. For awhile I thought I was being too serious with my canning. 🥰Two nights before hurricane 🌀 Beryl hit us, I'd just canned meatloaf and it saved us while the power was out. ❣️ Thank you for inspiring me to keep it up 🙌🏽🥳 blessings

[@cherylb.9766]

Great job!

[@PlowAndPantryHomestead]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@iartistdotme]

What a variety of ways and things to preserve - congrats

[@PlowAndPantryHomestead]

Thanks so much! 😊

[@briezeeway]

I have made this twice using 5lb cranberries. love it. Don’t eat the cranberries. Feed them to your chickens. I was able to use monk fruit so my husband can enjoy also. I did one inch headspace and the cranberries still float to the top.

[@PlowAndPantryHomestead]

Sounds great! Thanks for sharing!

[@BamaRollOn]

My grandbabies LOVE freeze dried peaches!!!!!!

[@PlowAndPantryHomestead]

Good to know!

[@MsLisaBrooks]

I can’t preserve every day because I work a lot but weekends I do projects. I have put up 20 quarts of silver queen off cob in freezer. I froze 2 bushels of canning tomatoes from a local farmer and I will can those as I have time. I made 10 pints of bread and butter pickles from my one cucumber vine last weekend and made 10 1/2 pints of zucchini relish.

[@PlowAndPantryHomestead]

You've been busy! Congrats on all you've gotten done! What kind of cucumber do you grow that one vine gives you so much?

[@dreamingofanecholshomestea3711]

❤❤❤

[@PlowAndPantryHomestead]

Thanks for watching! 😉

[@MsLisaBrooks]

I made cranberry juice last year and it was SO good. I am buying a bunch of cranberries this year

[@PlowAndPantryHomestead]

How did you make it?

[@noplacelikehome9116]

I would like to know how you made it as well!

[@deidrecruickshank7975]

Hi there just subbed, Dee, 63 from New Zealand ❤. Listening to you talking about your cranberry juice. I suggest you contact Jennifer at A Country Life. She and her husband are long time cranberry growers, and she makes cranberry juice all the time. She recently made more on a video, so take a look....

[@PlowAndPantryHomestead]

Thanks for the suggestion! I totally forgot they are cranberry farmers but I love her channel. I went back and watched a few of her juice videos!