I canned my first Peach Jam yesterday.
I’m really looking forward to the taste of summer on some warm biscuits, fresh out of the oven, on a chilly fall or winter morning, or spread across a hot buttered pancake. Oh, yum!
We’ve been getting a weekly bulk fruit order throughout the summer and it’s been so much fun to put up quart after quart of quality fresh fruit to pull from the freezer and the pantry through the long winter months, and then there has been the eating! Fresh fruit is so incredibly good for a body, but buying fresh fruit by the pound for a family the size of ours can get so incredibly expensive… Most of the fruit we’ve bought by the 10 lb. or 24 lb. box has been about half (or less than!)the price found in our local grocery stores! Blueberries (our children have been eating plump and juicy blueberries by the handful, quite literally), apricots, bing, rainier, and frozen tart cherries, peaches (oh, the peaches!!), and we’ll be seeing pears and grapes and a variety of apples in the coming weeks!
As tasty and nourishing as all this fruit is, wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could bottle up some extra fruits of the Spirit on our good days, to pull out and open up on our bad days? Can you imagine having such an abundance of love and joy that you could preserve some extra, in some of those cute little patterned half-pint jars with the decorative lids, tie a sweet ribbon around it, and bring some to a friend or neighbor to brighten up their day?
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperence: against such there is no law.
Galations 5:22-23
Have you been canning? Do you have a favorite taste of summer you like to pull off a shelf in the cold months?
If you could can the fruits of the Spirit, which one would you stock up on the most? Things that make you go, hmmm…
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tell me more, tell me more. like what recipe do you use for biscuits? and how are you getting a fruit delivery, that sounds wonderful
I linked to my favorite buttermilk biscuits in the post- they’re also listed on my recipes page!
There is a local lady who is connected with some growers in Michigan and she takes orders and gets a big delivery and we pick up from her. I found out about her through the ladies at our local homeschool co-op. You could try asking around, some natural foods co-ops have similar things… it has been such a huge blessing to our family this summer!!
WOW! I need a can of patience please.
My dad always said angels have to laugh when they hear people pray for that.
Do you have any canning advise? I’ve canned for YEARS, but for some reason in the last few years my jars of tomatoes are leaking fluid. I’ve tried everything I know (tightening lids more, venting the pressure canner, heating lids for several minutes, getting out air bubbles) and they still leak! I’d love to know your tips.
I could use a can of patience! That is weakness for me.
I have missed canning this summer as I have been on bedrest. I’m so thankful we live in a time when my family isn’t depending on me to can fruits and vegetables to get through the winter!
Hooray for canning! I just canned 75 pounds of tomatoes yesterday (mmmm … salsa!) … and turned 12.5 pounds into pasta sauce today.
This summer (my first time canning) has been a bonanza! A friend and I have made: salsa, pasta sauce, bruschetta, jalapeno jelly, strawberry preserves, and peach preserves (that didn’t gel so they’re now peach syrup … perfect for pancakes)!
My friend has been making fun of me … because I only have half of what we have made! It’s all so delicious that I just can’t help myself and I have to share jars with everyone
Oh, that all sounds so yummy!
I’m hoping to make a batch of jalapeno jelly soon as well! I haven’t had any in a couple years and I saw some at a farmers’ market a couple weeks ago and have been craving some ever since!
I haven’t tried making peach jam yet! I love homemade apricot jam! This really is summer in a jar!
I too am a canner and just wanted to invite you to my “Canning Week Blog Party” next week (Aug. 23-27). We will be posting lots of tips, recipes, linky parties and give-a-ways all related to canning in hopes of encouraging and educating others on how to can. Hope you can stop by, it should be a lot of fun!!!