The September 2010 Daring Cooks’ challenge was hosted by of Eat4Fun. John chose to challenge The Daring Cooks to learn about food preservation, mainly in the form of canning and freezing. He challenged everyone to make a recipe and preserve it. John’s source for food preservation information was from The National Center for Home Food Preservation.
And hence all the canning that my followers on Twitter heard about in the last week. I try hard not to tell people what I had to make for The Daring Kitchen Challenges, but since I have gotten a little .. erm .. itsy bitsy crazy with this challenge and disappeared, I had to mention what I had been doing, but at least I didn’t mention the why.
Since I have already accomplished food preservation in the form of freezing before and canning, wow ten years ago, I decided to give it a try again with one of the recommended recipes – apple butter. Since I don’t have an emulsion blender or a strainer my apple butter became more of an apple sauce, chunky instead of smooth, but non the less still tasty. If I had the forethought to realize how addicted I would be, I probably would have spent money on an actual canner, but I didn’t. When K asked me, ‘Are you going to go overboard with this?’ I innocently replied ‘no’ but I was wrong. So three pots down (I may actually have to throw one away, I wasn’t paying attention and burnt a preserve caked on the the bottom,) K helping me create a ‘bamboo mat’, Neala as supervisor, while Flynn lounged around, I proudly accomplished this challenge with fifteen different kinds of canned goods.
A List of Recipes
- Apple Butter – John’s (Eat4Fun) -
- Sweet Pear Chutney – In the Kitchen with Anna
- Apple Chutney – Little Shamrocks
- Pear Ginger Compote – Whipped
- Plum Perserve – In the Kitchen with Anna
- Holiday Perserve – In the Kitchen with Anna
- Marmalade – Little Shamrocks
- Strawberry Jam – Intimate Weddings
- Cinnamon Whole Pears
- Tomato Jam – Homesick Texan
- Bread & Butter Pickles – Simply Recipes
- Spicy Salsa – Home Steeped Hope
- Tomato Sauce – Gretchen Cooks
- Spicy Dill Pickles – Canadian Living
- Southern Pickled Peaches – Allrecipes.com
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Wow, you really caught the preserve fever. Impressive
Kudos on your canning spree! I can only imagine all of the lovely treats that are now sitting in your pantry. :D
Oh wow!! Those jars look so gorgeous! I will have to go through each and every recipe, thanks for sharing. Excellent job!
Goodness gracious! What an absolutely gorgeous assortment. I hope you have the cupboard space to keep it all!
How come you didn’t list the Ginger Pear Compote? Really enjoyed that on my oatmeal.
Congrats on a job well done. I think you should treat yourself to a real canner, lol. If you have no room to store the jars, bring them here. You may never see them again though, lol. Well maybe when they are empty. So does that mean canning pickles is off your “bucket list”?
15 types of canned goods?! I’m so impressed with your effort and end results. Your photo is gorgeous too. I’ve bookmarked the Pear Ginger Compote and hope to make it soon.
Wow! An amazing feat!!! Beautiful jars and jars of deliciousness!! Great job.
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WOW what an amazing array of jams and chutneys and they look so delicious so so much work but it was worth it superb effort well done on this challenge. Cheers from Audax in Sydney Australia.