Sunday, September 2, 2012

Food Preserves 2012

Well, I'm just about done preserving all I'm going to for this year.  I've listed below everything that we've "put up" this summer.  I'm hoping having it recorded here will help us know how much we need next year, based on what we actually end up using.  Here's what my canned storage areas look like in the basement:
Tomato and apple products, white potatoes in buckets
Canned peaches and jams, empty canning boxes

Potatoes - 2 5-gallon buckets
Applesauce - 41 pints
Peaches - 58 quarts
Strawberry jam - 24 half-pints (4 given)
Corn - 25 quarts frozen
Diced tomatoes - 32 pints, 7 quarts
Tomato salsa - 15 pints
Marinara sauce - 17 pints (16 canned, 1 frozen)
Peach salsa - 8 pints
Fresh salsa - 8 pints
Apple pie filling - 7 quarts
Shredded zucchini - 9 quart bags frozen (3 given)
Squash puree - 5 pints
Cherry tomatoes - 2 pints
Catsup - 12 pints
Tomato juice - 6 pints
Pesto - 11 pucks frozen (1/3 cup each)
Pumpkin puree - 5 1/2 pints frozen
Pumpkin butter - 13 half-pints frozen, 1 pint given away
Sweet potatoes -

I'll update above once I process the pumpkins and we dig up the sweet potato vines to see what (if anything) grew from them. (UPDATE: The sweet potatoes did not produce any tubers to speak of.  Each plant had a couple of small little potatoes about two inches in length and half an inch in diameter.  They weren't able to grow enough during the prime summer months to store anything under ground, I guess.)

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