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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, February 06, 2006 - 8:55 am
No, I'm a disaster in the kitchen, I'd probably chop off a finger trying to skin something, lol.
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Rupertbear
Member
09-19-2003
| Monday, February 06, 2006 - 9:02 am
No...that's what the supermarket is for...no fuss, no muss. ;)
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Max
Moderator
08-12-2000
| Monday, February 06, 2006 - 9:08 am
yep, but it's been a LOOOONG time
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Wink
Member
10-06-2000
| Monday, February 06, 2006 - 9:12 am
Only once. Once was enuff. I agree with Rupert.
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Monday, February 06, 2006 - 9:13 am
yes, i can make the best plum jam and apple butter that you've ever tasted. i've made jams, jellies, marmalades, canned beans, baby corn, made pickles (4 different kinds), peaches, apricots. my nonna taught me and i've never forgotten.
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Tabbyking
Member
03-11-2002
| Monday, February 06, 2006 - 9:24 am
yep, gallons of salsa; tomato juice; spaghetti sauces; pears; apricots; pomegranate jelly; okra; a mixture of carrots, cauliflower, garlic, etc., in a spicy vinegar; also, smoked shad or smoked salmon (now we just use the seal a meal things for the fish and put it into the freezer). we also made some great garlic dill pickles one year. for a while, we made our own beer and sasparilla. i think we will do more of this when we are finally living in just one house! right now, we are always having to do yardwork, or work on the floors, or paint this, touch up that...and canning does take a lot of time and make a lot of mess. the only thing we make right now is homemade bread. i remember my mom canning every year--also with the paraffin wax for jellies and jams...she had a whole closet under the stairs of home-canned goods so when we lived in there after an atom or nuclear bomb, we could eat the stuff! we also had gallons of water, flashlights, blankets, etc. like we would all live through a blast because we were behind one flimsy door!
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Spitfire
Member
07-18-2002
| Monday, February 06, 2006 - 9:31 am
Landi I love apple butter! Is it easy to do?
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Tabbyking
Member
03-11-2002
| Monday, February 06, 2006 - 9:32 am
oh, about having a reading (sorry i missed this question!) my elderly great aunt used to read tarot cards when we were kids. she must have been 90 years old...one time she read us kids and then when we were getting out our sleeping things, she read my mom's. mom and dad were going to sleep down the road at my greatgrandma's house. well, aunt gertie told my mom she was going to have something happen right out of the blue and she would end up with something nice. well, my mom and dad left and the next morning they walked up to my aunt's. during the night, old donnie bassett, the town drunk, hit my mom's station wagon where it was parked at my greatgrandma's house. my mom's new car ended up being a '61 lincoln. we loved that car!! aunt gertie told me i would have a foreign, dark-haired man in my life. i ended up meeting a guy at the trinity river raft races who was hitching back to quebec. we wrote for two years and then i moved to quebec...we ended up not staying together but i knew aunt gertie was right! when i was newly married, my sis came to visit and we went to the flea market. there was a fortune teller there. my sis wanted to go, but i didn't. finally, we both went. the gal told me i would have a big disappointment, but that everything would be okay and work out the next november. (this was november of 1986 that we saw her). i didn't even know i was pregnant yet, but i lost the baby about two weeks later. a year later, i went into labor with dd on november 30.
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Coco
Member
07-13-2000
| Monday, February 06, 2006 - 9:38 am
No
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Monday, February 06, 2006 - 9:49 am
No
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Monday, February 06, 2006 - 9:49 am
no
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Eeyoreslament
Member
07-20-2003
| Monday, February 06, 2006 - 9:51 am
No. But I remember my mom tried it once and it was the best jam ever.
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Lancecrossfire
Animoderator
07-13-2000
| Monday, February 06, 2006 - 9:58 am
I haven't. My mom canned all the time when I was a kid. She made jams, jellies, pickles, lots of different fruits and various canned veggies. I think 40 years ago the canned products in stores weren't as good as you can get today. Jams and jellies though---there is nothing out there to compare to what you can create yourself. With home canning, you can control what you get. You can pick the level of quality, the specific varieties of peaches for instance. You can also control the sugar content to the exact amount you want. And if you are looking for a family activity, it's something the whole family can help with.
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Heyltslori
Moderator
09-15-2001
| Monday, February 06, 2006 - 9:59 am
I agree Lance! There is nothing like homemade jam or jelly.
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Adven
Member
02-06-2001
| Monday, February 06, 2006 - 10:01 am
I love canning. I canned my receptionist just last month for dressing like a harlot. I hope he learned his lesson.
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Rupertbear
Member
09-19-2003
| Monday, February 06, 2006 - 10:04 am
Canned Harlot...they are having a two-for-one special down the A & P!
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Bandit
Member
07-29-2001
| Monday, February 06, 2006 - 10:05 am
Nope....never have.
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Mak1
Member
08-12-2002
| Monday, February 06, 2006 - 10:24 am
no
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Twiggyish
Member
08-14-2000
| Monday, February 06, 2006 - 10:40 am
ROFL! No, but I did see my mother-in-law can things. She canned tomatoes, corn and whatever they grew. (waiting to see what Pamy writes..LOL)
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Jeep
Member
10-17-2001
| Monday, February 06, 2006 - 10:56 am
Yes, yes and yes! I've canned everything, peas, tomatoes, corn, peaches, pears, made my own pickles, jams, jellies and spaghetti sauce (the best). I can remember one year we had a bumper crop of green beans and I canned NINE bushels of them! I have also "cold packed" sausage that I later used for gravy. The next thing I can will probably be my clogged up arteries!
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Spygirl
Board Administrator
04-23-2001
| Monday, February 06, 2006 - 11:27 am
Absolutely! As a kid, I spent hours with my mom picking various fruits and veggies and then canning all of it.
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Monday, February 06, 2006 - 11:35 am
Yep, veggies and fruit. I loved when we canned peaches, yumm.
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Marysafan
Member
08-07-2000
| Monday, February 06, 2006 - 12:21 pm
Yes, my mother-in-law had these awesome raspberry bushes and taught me how to make the best raspberry jam. She also taught me how to make pickles.
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Saxywildcat
Member
05-30-2005
| Monday, February 06, 2006 - 12:28 pm
Nope, I have never canned.
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Skootz
Member
07-23-2003
| Monday, February 06, 2006 - 1:18 pm
yup,
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