Loved Maggie’s face when the food processor started pulsing the second time! She’s a jewel.

@kennethvaughan8195

2 ай бұрын

She’s always so eager to help! Then when she starts to help her expression gets so serious! I enjoy the whole videos but watching her jump in to help is precious. Reminds me so much of my granddaughter when she was between the ages of 4-7. Now video games took over 😤. Lol

I've been canning and preserving for 45 years and that's the way I have always done my jams and jellies

Maggie Is An Adorable Helper. She Always Loves To Help Her Momma... Love Her Giggle's.

Don't give up on us. You're a joy to watch.

i have been binge-watching your content for the last week, since your channel popped up on my feed. i came across your video yesterday where you were thanking the subscribers for hitting the 5K mark. and look at you now, you are on the cusp of 50K. you deserve it. i am sure there are many of us out here, living vicariously through your blessed life. congratulations!

Maggie is becoming quite the little helper, your jam looks delicious.

My dad was 6' tall and all of 145 lbs. In the summer, he'd eat a huge butter bowl of ice cream with a good 1/4 th cup of Mom's strawberry jam on top. Pretty sure she had mixed emotions about that because it sure didn't last long!😂

Love your videos. My new favorite homesteading show! I love that you work with what you have . To many of these types of shows have “the best” of everything and takes away from what homesteading is all about, in my mind. Keep up the great work.♥️

You explain everything so well. The words you use to teach help. I’ve canned for years. I am 75. But your easy to follow demonstrations are so beneficial for those young people just learning. I just found your blog last week and I enjoy having a new family to watch. I grew up on a farm and my family (after I married )farmed during the children’s formative years. Blessings.

Love your videos and your patience with your children....you are a gem.

We only ever add sugar to strawberry jelly. Some folks water bath, some folks don't. Some folks run it through a sieve to get the seeds out, and some folks don't. But everybody needs to ladle that foam off!!!

My granny use to turn her jars upside down and never had anything go bad. Great job!

I have been making this for years. We love it! I put my jars in the freezer. I have also just put it in plastic containers in the freezer. Both ways work really well and the jelly keeps with no issues. Maggie is such a good helper. I hope she always loves spending time in the kitchen with you. So many memories to be made. Memories that she will always remember.

Thanks for sharing! I still make my jam the way my grandma did.. It is a non pectin recipe and you just use a cup of sugar and two tablespoons of fresh lemon juice per pound of crushed/mashed berries. Just bung it all into a pot and boil until it hits 225-230 on a candy thermometer.

@DWerkens

2 ай бұрын

Forgot to mention the butter! Grandma said to use a chunk the size of a pullet egg ( I use about 1 -1.5 tablespoons unusually for a 6-8 pound batch) to reduce the foam. :-)

@TrueGritAppalachianWays

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing!

Mama always turned the jars upside down so she would not have to use wax on the top she said like you said the air pocket is on the bottom and it seals the top better and keeps it from molding plus it helps them to actually seal faster too because that heat is around that ring just wanted to put that in there cuz a lot of people have been wondering why we turn the jars upside down

@lucindasutt7365

2 ай бұрын

Makes perfect sense to me. My Mom used wax but I only saw her doing Jam once. It was a lot more work.

Thank you for taking us through the process. Love strawberry jam.

Thank you so much for showing me this way to can jam. My mama and grandma used wax to seal the jam. I have a bunch of strawberries and raspberries in the freezer, and am going to try your method out this week! I really enjoy your videos, so keep 'em coming! Thank you for what you do. PS, your daughter was so proud to be working with you in the kitchen! Awesome!!

I was taught by my Grandma and have been doing it like you for 40+ yrs except I cook my fruit first and then mash makes a soother jam. It works great.

That’s how I make jelly. I might do the upside down seal. After reading your comments and seeing so many people do it that way to, I might make the switch from water bath sealing

I make my jam just like you. I don't know how long you keep them tipped upside down, but I keep them this way about 5-10 minutes just so it naturally heats up the tops and seals as it cools.

Looks like you have an adorable helper! Love to see little ones learning these important skills.

I can the same way as you do for anything acidic. It was the way I was taught, and never hurt anyone. You just need to work fast and keep things clean. Well done on teaching Maggie so young! 👍

Yum, looks great. Mom used to make jelly's and preserves when we were kids in the 60's. A lot of hard work but worth it. little Maggies facial expression was the max!

Thanks for sharing this video it’s nice to get something for dinner that has been canned when the snow is blowing and video of canned meat my mom canned meat it’s so delicious that’s what she did in the day when people didn’t have electricity keep up the great videos I enjoy watching them 🇨🇦

My mom always used the wax we didn’t grow them but at least twice during strawberry season we would go to pick your nothing better than that strawberry jelly

@perrywollam8981

2 ай бұрын

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Miss Maggie is just adorable.

Hon, I'm surprised you had any strawberries left with all the nibblers you had. ;-)

@TrueGritAppalachianWays

2 ай бұрын

I had to hide them 🤣

Great job Maggie! I remember Mama and Grandma used to make strawberry preserves that were really good. Now all you need is some homemade biscuits. 😊

My Grandmother always turned her jelly/jams upside down.. so I followed her ❤️

Maggie is one cute lil lady .... she makes me smile

I don't do my jams and jellies by the book either. I've been doing it this way for fifty years and have never had a problem with anyone getting sick or the product going bad. Like you said "do what works for you"

I just made your strawberry 🍓 jam and turned my jars upside down…Mom always turned hers upside down too!!!

Great video! I have the paper directions from Low Sugar Sure Jell and for strawberry jam it calls for 6 cups of crushed strawberries and 4 cups of sugar. The regular Sure Jell calls for 7 cups of sugar.

I am happy that you are showing Maggie how to do things!! That is awesome!!!

You did it ! You were hoping you would get enough strawberries 🍓 for jam . Tell me was that one of you new pots that you got for Mother’s Day’s? lol! It looked new 🍓 So sweet to see mom & daughter in kitchen working together. Too cute 🍓 Have a great week !

Well done Maggie ! Great job possum.

Your skin is flawless! Absolutely beautiful 💐

@Laura95000

2 ай бұрын

Agreeed! Beautiful!

@TrueGritAppalachianWays

2 ай бұрын

Thank you ❤️

All you need now is some of them biscuits 👍

I let my berries set over night in the fridge with 2 cup's of the sugar and it pulls out all of the delicious flavor

I had to watch this again. Love from Alabama

❤😂❤ OHHHHH Miss Maggie Moo, your little giggle absolutely is the cutest ever!!!!

Looks delicious !

Megan your way of making all your jams look so easy. I wisi had a good helper like Maggie

almost 50,000 next big number is the 100,000. Always Great info and videos thanks,

My mom & grandma did it that way too. Looks yummy!!! Thanks for showing us.

Thank you for sharing. My momma taught me to turn my jar over as well. Maggie is such a good helper. God Bless

That was a great job you and Miss Maggie made. Some awesome home grown and canned Strawberry Jam. That's the way to start out your canning for the up coming harvests you will be getting till fall. Thanks so much for sharing with us and showing how it can be fun to make. Stay safe and keep up the great videos. Fred.

Guess I need to have a Christmas stocking hung up at your house, as was said earlier Maggie’s little laugh made the video in my opinion.

The jam looks delicious! I have made jam and jelly using the upside down method and water bath canning. The upside down method is no longer recommended but I've never had it fail me whereas the water bath method has a couple of times. Nothing like gifting a beautiful jar of apple butter to someone and finding your own jars moldy 😢 an apologetic phone call to find that theirs was also bad! 😩

I use to make it like you do. Always turned jars upside down also. I don’t remember it needing so much sugar, but I’m sure it did because I used surejell . So cute how your daughter Loves helping you, and you have the patience to allow it. I know your kitchen must have smelled delicious! I was thinking how your chickens lived those scraps.

Love strawberry jam! I have 3 gallons of strawberries waiting on me. Everyone is different in what they do, and that is a good thing. I am different in that all of that foam goes into a bowl and we eat it on a buttered biscuit or put vanilla ice cream on top and eat it, its also good mixed into milk. Love seeing Miss Maggie helping Mama, brings back happy memories!

I made some jam drop cookies yesterday and used some home made strawberry jam in them.. so delicious

I do my jams and jellies like this too

Love my strawberry jam with sure gel, quick and easy

Have been watching your videos for a few weeks now! Absolutely love your content and family! Just my style! Country, comfortable to watch, down to earth family! Videos of stuff I do and teaching me things I want to learn to do! Rendering pork fat in my crockpot today!

I love watching your videos! ❤ my toddler and I made your strawberry jam yesterday and we’ve went through 3 jars already! 😅

Y’all are awesome. Excellent content. Looking forward to the next one. 👍

Me too! Mama turned her jars upside down! I do everything mama's way! "If it ain't broke, don't fix it!". I really enjoy watching y'all! Makes me happy!!

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I really enjoy your channel. It reminds me of growing up in the Mississippi delta. We had chickens and hogs. We didn’t have cows. Some of my parents friends had cows and i remember Mom churning butter. We always had a garden too. Everything had a much better taste back then.

So pretty

Strawberry jam is the first thing I ever water bath canned.

Loved the video granny made strawberry fig preserves it was delicious.

Oh my goodness absolutely YUMMY 😋 ❤

Awesome teaching Sister ❤😊 Yalls kids are gonna know how to make it. 😊❤

Idk if you have access to figs, but I make strawberry fig jam, 3 cups of mashed figs that I peel some of the skin off and remove stems, I box of strawberry jello and 3 cups of sugar! Bring to a boil and cook 3 mins put in hot jars screw on hot lids and rings, tastes just like strawberry jam

One thing about using pectins: I've found that I sometimes have to let things boil about three minutes instead of one. Especially when I'm making jellies that don't have natural pectin in them, like flower jellies. I don't know if it's altitude or whatever that causes that.

This is how my family did there jams and jellies. I remember well my Momma doing hers that way.

I used to turn the jars upside down. But when the lids started changing, they wouldn’t all seal. So I started water bath processing for 10 min. Have you ever made dandelion jelly? It’s delicious! (P.s. the foam is my favorite part 😂😂)

Thanks for sharing ❤

You can also find the directions on their web site.

I now use Monk fruit sugar substitute and believe me it tastes just like sugar, VERY Good.....Sugar will kill a person, I have done a lot of research on sugar and will never use it again.....I use the monk fruit for my iced tea and cannot tell it ain't sugar, I Love it, no calories and not harmful for your insides.....You can Can with it..... 7 cups of sugar YIKES..... Love your channel

@MrCorvettegirl2

2 ай бұрын

Hello I’ve tried monk fruit & didn’t like the taste🤪

That is how my sister and I also do our jellies. I love home made jellies. I love that you are teaching the next generation to can. This past year, we taught my son and daughter in law to can. Both water bath and pressure canning. It is a dying art. I love to see your family working together. My kids (all grown adults now) came and helped me finish planting my garden. It was a great day.

Looks delicious! I use sure gel as well but I do the freezer jam. I may try your way because the freezer jam gets moldy pretty quick as you’re using it. So good to see you again! Your little helper is a good one!

Love watching!

Yummy

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Thank you!

Thank you.

That looks delicious 😋

Good morning Megan ,Maggie Your strawberry jam looks yummy 😋 My Mamaw & her sisters always turned there jars upside down 👍 Maggie is such a great helper and doing such an awesome job in the kitchen 🤗

Beautiful jam and adorable helper❣

Thanks for sharing. Love your content

Great video

I like your style!

Look so good

Very good video!!!!!

Oh I love the way you make strawberry 🍓 jam ❤and thanks for sharing!!

Looks great

Good Morning!

Good job

I bet it’s going to be delicious Megan

Looks yummy

That Is Some Pretty Jelly..

Upside jars works every time❤

That's how my mom always did it, how I was taught. Best jam ever

Oh wow what a great little girl she.is

Love watching the show I was wondering if you had a video on making white loaf bread aka sandwiches bread

Guess I will do it your way and see how it comes out. Thanks.

@SuzieQ-lw2kp

2 ай бұрын

It's always turned out great for our family Good luck 😊

exactly how I do it, and my grandma and mom too, upside down works great for pickles too