Since we became friends with our fellow agrarian-oriented friends the Grahams in the spring, we've been talking canning. They can; we (especially Y) aspire to. This weekend we seized the opportunity. Every Labor Day there's a "Pick Your Own Tomatoes" day the local farm where we went blueberry picking in June, and Y and Dave spent a few hours Fri evening picking 250 lbs of tomats.Then yesterday we canned from 8 am till 6 pm in the Grahams' back yard... and when I say "we," I mean Y, Dave, and Courtney. I peeled a few dozen in the morning when I had a hand free but otherwise wasn't a great deal of help (but as the limited nature of my role has been established prior and expectations for my contributions were low, this was ok). Courtney cooked us fresh and scrumptious breakfast, lunch, and dinner... and our kids frolicked together in their large backyard all day while the hard work was being done. Minus 1 - 5 pm when the three kids and I went home and napped hard before returning to finish off.
It was a really fun day; the Grahams were very well organized to get the work done and great hosts; and we canned 75 jars of tomatoes. [But why is it still called canning when it's actually jars that are used? Anyone?]
2 comments:
Wow! How do you "can" in the back yard?? I've done canning approximately twice and both times involved hot, sweaty work in the kitchen over a boiling stove. I'd love to do this outside! I don't know precisely why they call it canning except "jarring" sounds weird! :)
Wow, 75 jars in 1 day! My few jars are nothing compared to that. Impressive.
Also, I absolutely love etymology so I've actually looked this up before :) I believe it's called canning after the canner you use to process the jars.
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