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Today I tried my hand at steam canning. Not sure if it’s going to seal up all the way to safely preserve, but at least I made a valiant attempt.

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Four 16 oz. jars of pickled jalapeño peppers, cooling on a copper cooling rack on a beige kitchen counter, tucked into a corner.

Kat brined some small green walnuts, a couple of years ago, they've been sat on the kitchen bench since. In a cleaning blitz today I decanted & rinsed them. They taste OK, just very very salty… now in vinegar with a little brown sugar, allspice, black pepper, and a slice of ginger. Hoping the vinegar pulls some salt out. Even this salty I reckon they'll be good on some cheddar onna biscuit.

Love how a halved pickled walnut looks like a tiny brain inna tiny skull.

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Three small jars with dark near black content, sat on a green plastic chopping board, a hexagonal jar with a silver lid either side and slightly closer than a pretty bulbous jar with a black lid. Betwen them is some chopped up bits of brined walnut.

A halved a brined walnut on a green plastic board, cut side up it is very black edges to dark green brown centre, air that typical kind of pickled walnut tiny brain in a skull look to it.

Today's haul.

I need to do some canning tonight, I guess. I have another pound of ripe Romas in the pantry.

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Many egg shaped Roma tomatoes, a few small cucumbers, and one medium dark green and purple circular slicing tomato in a wooden basket.

I understand now why most canning recipes call for, like, 7 pounds of vegetables.

I scaled down a recipe for pickles to use two pounds of cukes and that's a TON of work for one lousy jar of pickles.

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Home canners and preservers, I'm in need of advice.

I planted a couple of Parisian Gherkin plants with the intention of making pickles and thus far my plants have produced... A single cucumber.

What... Do I do with it? My understanding is that with pickles you want to pick and process the same day. Is there a way store it until I get enough for a batch? Whenever that is? There aren't even any other female flowers on the plants. Should I just eat the cucumber?

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A small lonely cucumber surrounded by yellow flowers.

I want to get into canning and preservation this year. I'll be growing beans and tomatoes to start.

I know beans are a low acid food and would generally need a pressure canner, but can they be canned using a water bath if they're pickled?

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