We recently moved and our new place has a ton of wild blackberry bushes. The past week we have been able to pick 4-6 cups of berries per day, so I figured I’d give making jam a try. Our first batch we gave all away to family for immediate use, but I tried my hand at jarring the second batch for longer term storage.
Our second batch made a dozen 4oz jars and four 8 oz jars. We water bathed them last night and by this morning, all 16 jars had popped sealed.
We have 24 tomato plants (better boy and sweet 100s) in our garden that are just starting to show tomatoes, so it looks like that will be next on our list. Any decent recipes for those types of tomatoes?
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Congratulations on a great looking run!
The sweet 100’s will be a little more of a challenge, as ALMOST all recipes will require tomatoes to be peeled. https://nchfp.uga.edu/newsflash/why-should-you-peel-tomatoes-before-canning
I think there are a couple safe, tested cherry tomato recipes out there that don’t need peeling though… can someone remind me what those are?
Gorgeous!!
Just wanted to add, use a metal sieve to remove the seeds. I mashed the berries in the pot and let them cook a bit to soften and then run it through the sieve. You lose any fiber from the skins but the seeds are not very satisfying to crunch on. The people I gave my jam to thanked me for the change.
Blackberries?
Looks beautiful!
Highly recommend the Ball canning books for recipes. I have the All-New book, and there are a lot of tomato recipes!