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Murt

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I picked some elderberries and juiced them.
I ended up with a gallon of juice and decided to make jelly with some and use the rest for syrup.
The problem is that when I juiced them I used my wife's little cone shaped juicer contraption
WELL the little wooden masher thingy is now purple --Granny ain't happy
BUT
the jelly is in the water bath as I type
So I hope when she tastes it she will say that it was worth it

ETA--it tastes pretty flippin good
 
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summerthyme

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LOL! Have you figured out how to get the "gunk" elderberries out on everything? (Hint- goo gone or orange essential oil work very well)

Summerthyme
 
Kathy in FL

Kathy in FL

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Try doing that with persimmons. Oh ... my ... Good ... Lord ... Above. That is the absolutely biggest mess I have EVER made while canning. Not even doing fresh pineapples was that big of a mess. I tell you, if I have a choice I won't be doing that again. Or at least until I am somehow gifted with another bag of them. LOL
 
kyrsyan

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There are reasons I prefer my juicer. This would be one of them.
But yummies should work.
 
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Murt

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I am considering getting a steam juicer --anyone have experience with one --yea or nay??
 
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Murt said:
I am considering getting a steam juicer --anyone have experience with one --yea or nay??
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Yes. Love it. Actually, them. I have 2 because they are so useful. But in this case I was talking about this : Amazon.com: VICTORIO VKP250 Food Strainer and Sauce Maker and VICTORIO VKP250-5 Four-Piece Accessory Pack for VKP250 Food Strainer Bundle: Kitchen & Dining

That things has saved my sanity. I do ketchup by steam juicing the ingredients and then running through that. I still have ro do a cook down but nowhere near as long. And friends like the "tomato water" from the steam juicer.
I do similar with "salsa" and some other recipes.
 
kyrsyan

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Steam juicer will let you get jam and jelly out of one batch of fruit. Making cranberry sauce with it is great. Pops the berries easily and you can dump the juice back in to finish. (I do have to make one jar from juice only for someone that cannot stand any berry at all.) Just about all berry things go great. A lot of tomato things can be done in it.
And the reason I have 2 is because one is used to make meat broths. Normally from bones with some meat. But occasionally completely stripped bones or a full bird. One note, don't can the meat after doing this. It ends up way too overcooked. Freeze it instead.

Oh, and there are less expensive strainers that are good. That was just the first to pop that showed all the screens. I got a good used one on ebay.
 
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Murt said:
I picked some elderberries and juiced them.
I ended up with a gallon of juice and decided to make jelly with some and use the rest for syrup.
The problem is that when I juiced them I used my wife's little cone shaped juicer contraption
WELL the little wooden masher thingy is now purple --Granny ain't happy
BUT
the jelly is in the water bath as I type
So I hope when she tastes it she will say that it was worth it

ETA--it tastes pretty flippin good
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:worth:
 
Samuel Adams

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There was that time.......I was about 15.......

A group of my (grievously, as the events of that day were to indicate) like-minded friends and I went for an extended hike.
Some distance in, we came across a large patch of ripe pokeweed.
The lightbulbs started going off simultaneously and we all came to the immediate conclusion that it would be hilarious fun to paint ourselves purple.

Mind you, the hike in was exhausting and we were planning to exit the forest stage right and take the highway home.
Also, most of us were wearing cutoff jeans and little else. We were thorough in our painting efforts, assisting each other in liberally smearing those hard-to-reach (middle of the back.....keep it out of the gutter, already !!) places.

The mail lady swerved violently upon coming upon us around a somewhat blind, but that blind, corner.....

Others had less violent but almost equally amusing reactions, up to and including those who seemed to find some large degree of humor in witnessing a dozen adolescent boys trooping down the highway sporting a medium shade of purple, from head to toe.

Most parents were not impressed, as of our very late afternoon return.

Mine were certainly not surprised......

Luckily, pokeweed berry juice dye seems to naturally dissipate in a little less than a week’s time.....and we weren't in school, just yet.

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psychgirl

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Like the weekend I spent putting cherries for the first time.

Oh Lord it looked like a bloody crime scene. I think I picked off tiny cherry splats from the cabinets for a week.
Not to mention the stains on my clothes (which I quickly changed into something really old!)
 
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psychgirl said:
Like the weekend I spent putting cherries for the first time.

Oh Lord it looked like a bloody crime scene. I think I picked off tiny cherry splats from the cabinets for a week.
Not to mention the stains on my clothes (which I quickly changed into something really old!)
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Ha! I once had my silk press bag burst under pressure from my 4 ton hydraulic herb press- full of elderberries! The entire ceiling was purple... all the cupboards had purple dots. It was impressive- took about 4 days work (including repainting the entire ceiling, and that kitchen was 14'x24'!)

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summerthyme said:
Ha! I once had my silk press bag burst under pressure from my 4 ton hydraulic herb press- full of elderberries! The entire ceiling was purple... all the cupboards had purple dots. It was impressive- took about 4 days work (including repainting the entire ceiling, and that kitchen was 14'x24'!)

Summerthyme
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More fun mess... the first batch of mead exploded out of the sealed jars. Oops, they forgot to stop the ferment. Bottles were resting on top of the kitchen cabinets (about 10 ft up). They came home from work to the fun.
Dad took the bottles that didn't blow and put them in the tub in the spare bathroom. They actually survived to be opened and made a great bubbly mead.
 
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kyrsyan said:
More fun mess... the first batch of mead exploded out of the sealed jars. Oops, they forgot to stop the ferment. Bottles were resting on top of the kitchen cabinets (about 10 ft up). They came home from work to the fun.
Dad took the bottles that didn't blow and put them in the tub in the spare bathroom. They actually survived to be opened and made a great bubbly mead.
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Ouch! I had a batch of blackberry wine do that once! I put sparkling mead into champagne bottles, complete with wire cage over the cork.

Summerthyme
 
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Murt

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Back many years ago my Mom and I were going to make some muscadine wine.
We had 2 large glass jars --they looked to be 2 gallon or so.
The recipe called for the jars to be stirred with a wooden spoon every so often.
Mom was stirring one of the jars on the kitchen counter and the spoon hit the side of the jar and a chunk of the jar near the bottom popped out----nearly 2 gallons of sticky juice covered the floor.
Next
Mom was organic and "green" WAY before it was cool --so she takes the leftover pulp and skins and puts them around her flower bed.
Next spring it looked like every seed had sprouted--muscadine vines every where--hundreds of them
We never made wine again
 
kyrsyan

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Summerthyme, Mom never recorded the error in her book. So years later when she repeated the recipe she couldn't understand why it wasn't bubbly. When I talked to her about it, she doesn't make the connection. It's one of the reasons why I think Dad is not telling us that she has Alzheimer's. He's just taking care of her like he does.
OMG, Murt. Muscadine vines are nigh on impossible to kill. That's a nightmare. I may be green in some ways but everything has ro go through the compost pile.
 
psychgirl

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summerthyme said:
Ha! I once had my silk press bag burst under pressure from my 4 ton hydraulic herb press- full of elderberries! The entire ceiling was purple... all the cupboards had purple dots. It was impressive- took about 4 days work (including repainting the entire ceiling, and that kitchen was 14'x24'!)

Summerthyme
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Oh no lol!
Pitting cherries is a CHORE but I don’t think the messy juice got up that high haha!
 
packyderms_wife

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Neither here nor there.
Neighbor has two choke cherry trees, I have friggin choke cherries glued to my Equinox, sigh. Great way to ruin a paint job.
 
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Murt

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Well we were canning potatoes today and I peeled too many
So as punishment Granny is, as I type, prepping the needs for some Potato Soup---throw me in the briar patch
 
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