Saturday, September 4, 2010

Canning... in your oven

How to Can in the oven!


So if a few of you ladies are like me you aren't quite lucky enough to have a pressure cooker or canner. You'll be as excited as me to find out you can actually can peaches and pears in the oven. It's so simple and the process is pretty much the same as if you were going to use a regular canner.

*Preheat your oven to 250 degrees.

*You still fill the jars nice and full of peaches. Then make your syrup and add that in the jar.

*Then move your bottom oven rack as low as it can go and put two cookie sheets on it.

*Put six jars on each cookie sheet making sure that none of the jars of touching each other. You should put no more then a total of 12 in at a time.

*Then bake for between one hour and 15 and one hour and twenty minutes.

*Make sure when you take them out that the liquid inside looks like its bubbling just a little because that means it will seal for you. Also it's fine if a little of the liquid spilled out just keep an eye on it to make sure it doesn't all spill out.

*Then of course let me sit for twenty four hours and they should  seal nicely for you!

*Also another fun little tip is to add about a tsp of vanilla to every four cups of syrup to add a little extra flavor to the peaches.


Make sure you save some fresh peaches to make some yummy peach pies. King Los  took one to work for the guys he works with and they absolutely loved it so make sure you make one for your family and one for a gift!      
                                                                                                            

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

this family would LOVE that gift!!! Just sayin...and by the way addison called you on her "cell phone" so many times this weekend to tell you about the zoo. she kept saying ok now i'll call eli's mom! haha she also asked if eli can come over this week...i said i would ask you! :) let me know what you schedule is like!

Sweet Apron said...

Love this idea! Peaches are on sale for 39 cents/lb this week, so I may be trying this. Wish we had fresh peaches off the tree here in Chicago.

Tracy @ Hall of Fame Moms said...

Sounds yummy! I've been thinking about trying some canning myself.

Tracy @ Hall of Fame Moms said...

I actually bookmarked that post in my Stumbleupon favorites for future reference!

Sarah Mae said...

What temperature? Maybe I missed it...

:)

Sarah Mae said...

Yep, just went back and looked - missed it - I'm a nerd!

Thanks for sharing this Amanda!