This Saturday, July 14 is National Can-It-Forward Day. Organized and hosted by Jarden Home Brands (the owner of Ball and Kerr), it is designed to be a day dedicated to the celebration of home canning. This year, the live events are centered in Minnetrista, a cultural center in East Central Indiana, founded by the Ball family.
Even if you’re not in Indiana, you can still participate in the day’s events. You can watch a series of live canning demonstrations as they’ll be streaming them throughout the day on the Fresh Preserving website. All the recipes they’ll be making are listed here, so you can even can along! It’s also not too late to invite a few friends over and host your own canning party. Pull out the canner, dust off those jars and make something delicious!
In honor of National Can-It-Forward Day, the nice folks at Ball have given me a couple of items to give away to my readers. I have a Home Canning Discovery Kit and a case of jars of your choice for one lucky reader.
- Leave a comment on this post and tell me what preserve you’ll be making (or eating!) this Saturday.
- Comments will close at 11:59 pm east coast time on Friday, July 13. Winner will be chosen at random (using random.org) and will be posted to the blog on Saturday, July 14, 2012.
- Giveaway is open to US residents.
- One comment per person, please. Entries must be left on the blog, I cannot accept submissions via email.
Disclosure: Jarden Home Brands is providing the units for this giveaway. They also provided me with a canning kit, an assortment of pectins and a Home Discovery Kit.
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I know I will be making something with the peaches I picked up from our CSA. I have already been canning tomatoes, blackberries, raspberries and corn! Been busy in the kitchen!
I really would love to put up a few jars of pickled blueberries.
My brother brought home two quarts of wild blueberries today, so sounds like a little small-batch blueberry jam is in order… on the eating side, my French-Canadian mother makes delicious green tomato pickle, traditionally eaten with meat pie (tourtierre) or salmon pie, but also really delicious with a weekend breakfast of fried eggs and homefries. Such a delicious way to turn end-of-season “problem” green tomatoes into something edible!
As soon as my habaneros and scotch bonnets ripen I’ll be making some fiery jelly!
I want to can my own tomato sauce made with the roma tomatoes and hot peppers that I am growing in my garden. My husband and I grew those plants from seed (our first attempt!) and have lovingly cared for them for months. They are in fact now just slightly older than our 5 month old daughter and are finally bearing fruit. The picking has just begun and the sauce making is about to ensue! I would love to have a canning kit to help with this process.
I tried to talk my sister into making the 2 hour drive to Minnetrista tomorrow but, neither of us can get out of previous commitments. Anyway, so today I put up 10 1/2 pints of Corn Cob Jelly, 12 1/2 pints of strawberry jam and 4 1/2 pints of blueberry jam. I also made homemade yeast cinnamon rolls for breakfast over the next several weeks along with making this coming weeks wheat bread and pizza dough for dinner.
I will be finishing up a batch of pickled red beets.
This Saturday I will be making several preserved items: I have been soaking peaches and bing cherries with vanilla bean in vodka and sugar. I will be turning this into a jam. I have Buleberries and Rhubarb that will become a jam. I have bananas, mango and plum that is going to be a delectable butter and finally I will be preserving a nectarine-blueberry pie filling. I am so excited and I hope my AC will keep us all cool!
I will be making my first batch of pickles for the season!!!
hoping to do some jalapeno jelly-the plants are loaded its just finding the time!!
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