Monday, December 6, 2010

Blueberries




My mother-in-law has 5 large blueberry bushes and every year she shares her abundance with us.  This year my freezer was full when I brought the berries home so I pulled out my favorite canning cookbook.


I wanted to put the berries up whole so I would be able to use them in any recipe in the future.  Sure enough there were instructions in the book on canning the berries whole.

I pulled out all the jars and got them washed up.

Then I got out
the other tools I would need.

Next I sterilized the jars...



and heated the lids  and bands.



Then I cooked the berries...


heating them all the way through.


Using the funnel I slowly...


poured the berries through the funnel into the jars.


Then I had to remove the air from the jars...


and wipe the rims.


Next I attached the lid and band and returned the jars to the canner for processing.


I carefully removed the jars from the canner and set them on a cooling rack.


The next day I had 9 jars of blueberries ready to be used in any recipe that looks good.


Now to search my cookbooks for some yummy blueberry recipes.

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