Pickling away

I thought I should drop by here and post some pictures showing the result of our canning.

Not counting the eggs that we have pickled this is our first attempt at canning here at home. We are doing high acid items that simply require a hot bath to seal good. The pressure cooker will be used later for other items.

We first did some Salsa, Mainly a tomato and pepper dish it looked like a good one to start with.

Here is a closeup of one of the pint jars.


We also did that first evening a bunch of Bread and Butter pickles. We were surprised how much pepper the recipe asked for. They also went into pint jars.



Here is the totality of our first evenings worth of pickling.



The next day we took a whole pile of Vidalia onions and made Sweet Onion relish. Since the relish would be at the dinner table we felt full pints may be to large so we did them in two shapes of half pint jars.



The result was 17 half pints of Sweet onion relish.

Sorry the pictures are horrible. For some reason the 5 megapixel camera that we borrowed from her mom is great outdoors but sucks inside.

My dear wife will add the recipes here or post them in another post for anyone who wants to try it yourself