1. apple butter
2. herbed sea salt (for the cooking-inclined, but is this too chintzy?)
3. peppermint bark (mine is way more awesome than Willams Sonoma's and also much cheaper to make!)
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That way we only do actual shopping for the kiddoes, and since I am up to EIGHT of them now we will optimally be coordinating with other family members on some group gifts. So they get good stuff instead of just junk in mass quantities.
T-Day will be hosted by another family member so I am off the hook for that other than for a couple of pies. But that is when I will see most of my family members before Xmas so the goal is to give most of them their misc. perishables then instead of after the fact. So this month I will be making apple butter for sure (and I also owe one fruitcake).
So I finally get to bust out my handed-down apple butter recipe and do some real canning! It doesn't look that scary. Right?
6 comments:
I make bark for everyone..what recipe do you use?
Canning terrifies me. Eeep! That said, good luck! ;)
You can totally make apple butter! I made some last year and it was easy and awesome. I didn't have any fabulous handed down recipe, either--just something off of AllRecipes, I think. We are about to finish up the last jar and I am contemplating another batch.
If I can can, you can can! I did peach, dried cherry and bourbon jam this summer.
LOJO, I use an old recipe modified from one I found in Glamour magazine, oddly enough (back in the days before it sucked).
Cookbook, don't say that!
Lauralynne and Kerry, thanks for the encouragement! I am finding people to swap jars with as we speak! Any tips on the hot water bath canning?
This peppermint bark sounds intriguing (to a foreigner, at least)! Would you mind sharing the recipe?!
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