Saturday, August 10, 2013

QUEEN Anns Lace dye

I gathered a full grocery sack of queen anns lace flowers.Simmered them in a canner for about 3 hours with rain water.Added 3 tabelspoons of alum and added wet material to achieve the yellow.The green is over dyed in Saxon Blue.

Cabbage sausage soup

The Sausage Cabbage soup recipe
I just made it up as I went but here goes.
I used about half a head of cabbage ,one medium onion,about 2 lbs Italian sausage ,5 beef bullion cubes , 3 or 4 potatoes. I Might add green peppers today. I browned the sausage in a separate pan and chopped everything else up pretty coarse. Added the veggies with just enough water to barely cover as the cabbage cooks down... to make more water. Added the sausage and season salt and pepper.cooked on medium to simmer till tender. Doesn't take very long.this made about 4 or 5 quarts. In the past I have added corn and beans from the garden. You could probably add tomatoes.
I opened a jar to taste it today and it even passed the picky eater Frank taste test.I processed it in the pressure canner the same as for meat.15 lbs for 90 minutes for quarts.This soup is good enough to open a quart at a time.Happy canning !!!!!!!