Hello Everyone!
I just made my first ever canned tomatoes yesterday. I'm not going to tell you how to can them or go deep into how I made mine because this was my first time and I have no idea how well I did yet but maybe I'll inspire you to try canning your own. My own garden tomatoes are really just starting to produce more than one or two at a time so I picked up some locally grown organic plum tomatoes and I did use a handful of my own as well. All I used was some fresh lemon juice, salt, and the tomatoes.
Ta Da!
They look really pretty and the smelled really good when I took them out of the water bath. I think I had about 4 - 5 lbs of tomatoes and I made 5 pint jars.
So I also recently picked up a book called Medicinal Herbs a Beginner's Guide by Rosemary Gladstar. In her book she talks about making Ginger Syrup with honey and fresh ginger and I love ginger tea so I figured I would give it a try. I did make it my own though and I decided to make it more of a jelly or jam. This is just a refrigerator jelly though so it doesn't have a really long shelf life. All I did was chop up a large hand of ginger and then covered it with some good quality honey. After it cooled off some I added about one tablespoon and then an extra teaspoon to each jar of the gelatin pictured below because I thought it needed a little more.
I bought this gelatin to make homemade marshmallows and they were really good but the gelatin is good for many things I knew it would turn my syrup into jelly.
This jam is really spicy and sweet. Ginger is good to eat for a few reasons but it's really good for stomach aches or nausea. I think this would be really good on one my Einkorn biscuits too!
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