canning with help!

I've been Helping one of my friends get started canning. She has never done it before and needed a help getting started. Well in my opinion she already had a great start when she bought her house it came with two apple trees and one pear tree. So we had all the free fruit we wanted to experiment with. so me loss if something goes wrong.

We have made apple sauce and jared up 12 pints, we jared up 4 dozen jars of varying size pears, also we made 17 jars of pickled vegetables. Now she has asked me about canning apple pie filling. But as I remember you can store apples in the basement for quite some time without doing any thing to them. So I'll mention this to her and see if she wants to jar up some tomatoes instead or make salsa.

This is really a two fer. I was not even thinking about canning this year with a three year old and another little one on the way. I felt way to busy with play dates to get to can. But it's amazing how one little request or meeting at a friends house can change my plans so fast. Last year she gave all her pears to her brother-in-law and didn't even get an offer of half the canned fruit in return. So now she knows how to do it her self and can keep all the spoils.

I feel blessed to have meet my friend, and to have been asked to help her can.