That’s my kids. They’re all adults, but they think I’m the dummy. They have very little life experience in this regard. They know nothing about canning and preserving because I didn’t do that when they were growing up, but I was around my mom and aunts and we all helped out when I was growing up. It was all hands on deck in those days.
I’ve never done much canning other than the odd batch of jelly and such. While she was raising six kids, my mom canned lots and lots of fruits and vegetables. She grew up in the 30s on an Iowa farm. I’ve eaten 20-year-old home-canned kosher dill pickles that were OK, a bit mushy maybe.
“It was all hands on deck in those days.”
One summer my Mom and two of the neighbor ladies bought what FELT LIKE an entire semi-load of Sweet Corn. They gave us kids a nickle for each ear we shucked, and ALL of the silk had to be off of it and any bad spots had to be busted off or cut out. No exceptions, or no nickle!
After 12 weeks of shucking Sweet Corn (just kidding!) we took our loot and went to the Dairy Queen for treats while the Moms canned all of that corn.
I never have, and never will, can corn, LOL!
My pal Gary* makes the best frozen Sweet Corn ever, though. He packages it with a little sugar, a pat of butter and a dash of sweet cream then freezes it. OMG. Heaven on a PLATE! :)
*When Gary first met Beau he said, ‘Nice to meet you! Diana and I used to live together!” TECHNICALLY TRUE - but I lived upstairs and he lived downstairs in the duplex, LOL! That’s just Gary.
My Grandmother spent her whole summer canning fruits and vegatables. (And I helped)
She also made her own noodles.
She had a huge dining room table and would roll out the dough, (and I would helped again) cut them onto noodle and hang them out on hangers until they dried. She stored them in empty Quaker Oat boxes.
Great memories.