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Canning Peppers and Happy Childhood Memories
Canning peppers and cabbages, tomatoes and apples in a hot country kitchen brings more than just great preserves.
It also builds happy childhood memories.
Here is Karen's story of living with her grandparents. - editor
Canning Peppers and
Other Childhood Memories
When I was a young girl my family moved in with my grandparents.
My grandmother was raised to believe that you get all you can from the land, and then go to the supermarket for the rest.
She grew a garden every year.
She tried to teach us how to can and preserve the vegetables and fruit that she grew each year.
I remember being petrified of the pressure cooker.
Everyone has heard the story of a pressure cooker blowing up and maiming or killing the unsuspecting user.
The story was always in the back of my mind when she worked with us getting her canning finished.
The year that we were there I learned how to can tomatoes.
I can never forget how hot the kitchen was during canning season.
The tomatoes had to be cooked and then we had to strain them to get the tomato juice that she wanted to can.
Canning Peppers
And Pickled Lily
We had apples to make applesauce and apple butter.
She made homemade sweet pickles.
My favorite was her pickled lily - at least that is what we called it.
It was actually a relish of hot peppers and cabbage.
I remember her telling us we needed to use gloves for that one.
She said that when she was a girl their hands would get rashes from the peppers because they did not have gloves to cut the peppers back then.
I could not imagine cutting those hot peppers without the protection of gloves.
She is a very tough lady.
Canning Peppers
And Making Molasses
During that time of year we also helped my great uncle with his sugar cane crop.
Every year he would make molasses and the whole family would come to his fields to help him cut the cane and process it into molasses.
The smell of that hot molasses was wonderful.
He would give us a stick of sugar cane covered in molasses to reward us for helping him.
I would love to have one of those now.
They were delicious.
I learned many things that summer while at my grandparents, but I am sad to say that I do not use the skills she taught me.
I wish I could remember how to do all the things she showed us.
I am sure it would make me a healthier person if I made my own canned goods.
My mom still cans every year.
I wish I had the time to help her, maybe I could remember what my grandmother tried to teach me about canning pepper and other things all those years ago.
Karen
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