Putting Up

 Since 1988, I have kept a record of the food I canned or froze each year. I'm not sure why... maybe because Mom did at one time... maybe because I got a kick out of it (I have a little Grandpa Raymond in me)... or maybe because it assured me I was a "good woman" in the midst of atypical womanly things I was doing.... It has proven useful when figuring out how much to put up this year, based on what I did last year. compared to what is leftover. It brings me no end of pleasure to preserve food with daughter Maureen.

Here is 2023.

Froze
15 boxes strawberries  (2 flats, Ruth Miller/Amish)
1 lug blueberries (Stringtown)
12 jam, 1 qt. dried, apricots (Wanda's tree)
3 qt. rhubarb cut-up
12 qt. applesauce (1 bushel Lodi- Carolyn & Atlee's tree)
29 pt., 2 qt. corn (Donovan)

Canned
16 qt., 2 half-gallon green beans (zinc tabs keep these green)
5 pt. pickle beans
7 pt. rhubarb juice (a first!)
25 pt., 3 pt.+ tomato sauce
9 half-pint pizza sauce (actually bought new jars!)
2 qt., 6 pt., 1 half-pint tomato juice
7 qt., 10 pt. V-8
4 pt. green salsa (tomatillos- a first)
7 qt. veggie soup (another first)
5 qt. peaches (Aldi's lug- ungodly $55)