1st Canning Project of the Year!

The other day we were over at Flint and Lisa's and the phone rang so I answered it. It was some poeple from our ward calling to ask Lisa (R.S President) if there was anyone in our ward that wanted apricots. She wasn't there so I said that I would ask her when she got home. Then I got to thinking maybe "Hey I should try to do something with apricots for our food storage." We didn't can apricots growing up and I had no clue what in the world to do with them, but I asked anyway. So I went and picked up what they had left and spent two evenings juicing apricots.



First I had to wash all of them, cut them in half and get rid of the pits. This doesn't look like much, but this is only about a third of what I did. Then I put them in my moms steam juicer (I am so glad that my mom has all of this neat canning stuff, it sure made my job easy). I steamed them for what seemed like forever. The first batch (the apricots in the picture, gave me 4 quarts of apricot juice and then the second batch I did gave me 8 quarts. I am soooo excited. I am not quite sure what I am going to do with it, or if we are even going to like it. I got a few ideas from family about what I can do. But if there is anyone else that has any ideas of what to do with apricot nectar/juice please let me know. It was worth a try, who knows we may want to do more next year. I just love canning season!