Humble Beginnings

Cranberries

Another busy day at our home today!  We did all of our homeschooling plus TONS of canning.

As I mentioned in my previous blog, the local store has cranberries on sale.  So, I ended up with a total of 9 bags (yes, I know...it's a lot).

So, with all those cranberries, I made:

• 10 quarts of cranberry juice
• 3 half pints of cranberry-orange relish
• 7 half pints of cranberry preserves

And, I still have 2 bags in the freezer.  It sounds like a lot of canning (and it was) but it only took a couple of hours - not as long as I thought it would take.  But, with the boiling water already ready, it really took very little time.

I'm going to let the cranberry juice set up for about a week so that all the flavors have time to mingle and then I'm going to try it.  I already have several quarts of mustang grape juice from earlier this year.  My wonderful hubby loves cranberry-grape juice, so I'm going to mix them together to see how well it tastes.  We may not have to buy it anymore!  Yeah!

Anyway, I may get more cranberries this Friday when I go grocery shopping...and some more quart jars ... if the cranberries are still on sale. 

I hope y'all had a wonderful day as well...