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My mother would boil the beets first and the after they had cooled some she would put us 6 kids outside at a table and we would slip the skins off. Because of how firm the beets are the skins pop off by lightly squeezing the beet. We always thought it was a fun job and mom was smart enough to know that if we did it inside the entire kitchen would be red.
We would separate them by size. Little ones would be canned whole. Larger sizes would be sliced or cubed before filling jars and processing.
I canned the strawberry lemonade concentrate recipe from Ball and it's delicious! It might be another idea to preserve your lemons.
We love that recipe. It doesn't last very long at our house
Around here in Western New York state, and I'm sure around the country, you can contact your local high schools FFA ( Future farmers of America) chapter.
Usually in November or December they take orders for bulk citrus.
This way you can support a worthy group and get large amounts of citrus for decent prices.
Hi!
About beets... I never seen anyone canning raw beets.
I live in Sweden and here be take whole beets scrub them and cut of the "greenery" but leave he "root" and top so they don´t bleed. After that we take all the beets and give them a quick boil in a large pot with salted water. We strain them in icecold water and the peels is sooo easy to get of this way, they just fall of in large chunks. When the beets has cool off a bit we slice them in about 0.5cm slices. We cut away the top and root and put the rest of the slices in jars, pack the jars really full and pour over a mixture of venegar, sugar and water. Sometimes we put whole pepercorns, ginger. fenel seed or chili in the jars to. These beets we eat cold with our dinner or on top of sandwiches. Sometimes we make a "salad" with beets, majonaise, sourcream aso. That salad is traditional with our Christmas dinner.
The beet root powder, Here all bakers, confectioner aso who are working with high quality and are eco-friendly use veggie powder to color their procucts.
If we want raw beets all year around (same with carrots, potato, turnip, sweedes aso) we either put them in a root cellar or in a fridge. Sometimes ppl dice them, boil them fast, cool them down and freeze them but the traditional way is to keep them raw in a dark cool place.
I make marmalade (the kind you put on toast) from citrus peels. Nothing goes to waste : ) and sometimes also candied thin slices of lemon peel. I don´t eat it myself but friends and family do.
I find it very intresting that we do alot of preservation so different yet all the methods work and I can definately find inspiration and new recipes by looking at videos like this one.
Pink Lemonade with the beetroot powder
I don't know if you will see this as it is 6 months after the fact......but dehydrating (and now freeze drying) your lemon/lime slices is awesome!!! I first learned of this about 45yrs ago. A family friend from Iran made dinner for in our home. It was so awesome that I've been making it for everyone ever since...I was only about 11 when this was made one time!!!
Take your dried lemon slices and grind them in your blender - not to fine!
Sprinkle over cooked rice along with some saffron!!!!! Excellent!!!!!!!!!
He gifted us with a large jar of each.
I have since taken the idea and expounded upon it in multiple ways.
I encourage you to try it and play with it for many culinary and other delights! 😊😊😊
Your skill level and innovation is thoroughly impressive! I was shocked the other day when you said you basically went into your marriage not knowing how to cook, and taught yourself.
I love your channel, I'm learning a lot. I have not started pressure canning yet but, I do dehydrate and powder things. I have been inspired by your pantry challenge and participating on a very beginning level. Thank you for taking time from your busy schedule to make, edit, and publish videos.
Try Preserved lemons! Here’s how: For a small glass jam jar with a tight-fitting lid: 1). Juice 2 lemons. 2) Cut 2 more lemons into narrow wedges & stiuff into your jar. 3) Pour 3-4 tablespoons of salt over the lemons in the jar. 4) Fill jar with lemon juice and seal with a tight lid. 5) Leave on your counter for 7 days. Shake every day to distribute the salt. 6) Top with a little olive oil & put in the ‘frig. Leave for at least 7 days in ‘frig.
We love them on steamed veggies (broccoli!), avocado, salad dressing, last week I added to a pot of risotto… You can top off with more olive oil as you use it up. This cuts the sharpness. I prefer the sharp salty taste! Keep indefinitely if the refrigerator. Makes nice little gifts.
Sounds delish!!
Just a little tip... it would be easier for you to put the trays either in the freezer or into the freeze dryer BEFORE you fill them up and you won't have to worry about spilling everywhere..it helps doing all liquid stuff this way. Isn't it so much fun .. if anything comes out sticky then it just needs more time in the freeze dryer and it's amazing to use for lemonade, you could probably just Make your lemonade then put it into the freeze dryer and then just add water when you wanted it.. idk just a thought
Love your videos
You can also make candied citrus rines for baking Christmas cookies. We usually did lemons and oranges, but have heard of others candying grapefruit and limes too. Would save money too because store bought are expensive. Bless you all!
You can remove dye from the beets if you rub with lemon 🙂
Hi Friend! I just saw an article where you can juice lemons in bulk using your mixer! It says to quarter them and mix with the paddle for 2 minutes. I can't wait to try it myself, but I thought of your bulk order and wanted to share with you. Maybe would save you and the kids some time and wrist strength!
We pickle beets in a brine with vinegar and sugar, my absolute favourite way to have them!
Wow, all that citrus looks good. We too have been ill, eating lots of oranges for the vitamin C. We have covid, so enjoy laying around watching your videos. Hope your family continues to get well. God bless 🙏
Wonderful waiting on sunday for you angie in arkansas
Hii!I have a tip for you.Those lemons u juice we actualy grate the skin off( helps a ton with juicing) and freeze them in jars.Those grated skins we either mix them with the orange one's or some leave on their own and add to pancake mix,any biscuit,cake,cookie.They are very healthy for ur liver and also tasty in cookies.I also use them in the lemonade at times/tea/pickling.You can add them to cleaning producs,to cosmetics too.Hope you like the ideea.I love your ones I just need a freezedrying machine.
And even easier than grating is to use a peeler to get big pieces which are easy to grind/dice.
Awesome tips and I see recipes for lemon chicken soup all the time I want to try!
Try zesting your lemons then peeling off the white pith. Freeze dry the zest and grind to a powder. I then put the peeled lemons in the blender to liquify. I do strain out the seeds. I use the juice and pulp to freeze in jars for lemonade and ice cube trays for cooking. . The only waste is the white pith. That goes to the compost pile.
You can ferment lemons and limes and then use them in cooking throughout the year.
Hope you ALL feel much better soon, rest when you can and take care, thank you for sharing your ideas and ways of storing food, God bless
Pickled beets in salad is so good, and I love lemons I get them weekly in my imperfect food box and use in soups.
I had no idea I could freeze canning jars until I started watching your videos! Game changer!
Absolutely! I do it all the time. I have better luck with wide mouth jars - both pints and quarts of soups & stews. She is right about leaving A LOT of head space.
You can make lemon pepper seasoning out of the pills of the lemons you also can preserve them in honey and ginger and that’s good for tea as well you can cook with the pills of the women in stirfries
Hey Angela do u have a recipe for the lemon pepper seasoning at all please
You just dry and blend up your lemon peels add black pepper parsley salt if you like garlic put a one to one ratio or you can just leave it as dried lemon peel into your recipes it would be fine just like that as well hope that helps
Wow what a great score of citrus. I get excited when I get to Costco and buy a bag of lemons. I live up in northern BC so quite as easy to buy,large amounts of citrus. But I am so happy for you and your family that u can get it
I've got a lemon tree (so blessed!) and I always find it very interesting to see how everyone else puts them up. I always salt preserve a bunch, and dehydrate slices for things like tea. :) (In addition to freezing juice and such!) I freeze dryer is SUCH a wish! Good luck with your powders.
Have you made candied oranges and lemons? It is a really good snack and is a good way to preserve them.
I don't care for the taste of beets but know they are good for you so I buy beetroot powder and put it in my smoothies. You are so industrious with all the canning and preserving you do!
Our local FFA sells citrus in the fall and it gets delivered in December
I use my freeze dried beetroot powder to make borscht! I add freeze dried powdered chicken broth ,carrots onions, garlic then canned kidney beans and sour cream. It's soo good!
I order all my bulk order fruit with our Amish friends and have been ordering with them for 12 years! It is a blessing to be able to do that
If I could Jessica I would give you lots of fruit of my trees as I never used all of them and its a shame x🍋🍋🍊🍊🍋🍋x
Ha, Sam is in my backyard. I'll have to contact them since I am scheduling a year out for when to order different produce around Central California. Thank you for always sharing great information to preserve.
Do you have their information? I'd like to get in on all the citrus!
@@mamabairds Looks like she took it down maybe? I posted in a reply to my own post here they maybe closed perminatly? The google search gave their business information and noted closed perminatly.
Hi Jessica!!!! Just loving these bonus videos before Sunday!! Hope all is well with all of u!!!!
I juiced some limes and pomegranates to can but my husband and daughter started adding it to everything. I didn't think they would like it so I only made a little bit for me. Now I think I need to get a case of lemons and a couple of cases of pomegranates.
I'm so glad you made this video! I have been really wanting to preserve citrus!
You do a great job with your videos, Jessica.
Thank you again for sharing this journey. So many great ideas. I bought the sprout mix and can't wait to start growing them. Looks so easy. Will even have a jar in my office window at work to eat for lunches. Searching to citrus availability. I saw an idea for preserving lemons. The froze them whole. After frozen, was able to zest them then put back in freezer until they were ready for lemon juice. Stay warm. Ohio is really getting hit these last 2 weeks. Be safe. Glad your family is doing better
Very nice! I love all the different options. I never thought about freezing lemon juice. Enjoy your channel.
Jessica a tip for you on freeze drying citrus. I find after a week in a sealed jar or mylar it starts to go soft. So what I found works is to run it thorough the freezer dryer twice. I think the membranes are the cause. My orange juice freeze dries just find, but if I do the fruit which taste so good, I have to run it twice. Hope that helps.
I noticed my juice comes out sticky and never seems to dry completely if the fruit is too ripe.
I add extra water to my juice before freeze drying. It doesn't make sense I know, but it works on any liquid that is higher in sugar. (The more ripe the fruit the higher the natural sugar)
Another thing to try; I cut off the rind then slice the citrus. Freeze dry each separately. When dry I powder each separately. Then use the rind to flavor cakes and such. The slices that I powdered I use for lemonade. Saves room in the freezer and I don't have to wait for it to thaw. 😁
I love my freeze dryer, hope you're loving yours too.
Wonderful watching you channel. Thanks❤
I should have counted all the times you said 'blessing.' You are indeed blessed. Thank you for sharing from your abundance.
also you can freeze dry the lemon peel shredded for flavors cant think of word but using peel for flavor
You can use the beet powder as a natural food color for marhsmallows, frosting, cookies and desserts
Beetroot pink makes the perfect bubblegum-type shade in all of these foods! So appetizing to look at!
Freeze the lemon seeds ( any citrus seeds)… natural pectin for your jelly or jam …
I need to get lemons , I canned pickled beets 2 years ago and still have lots !
Lemon peels are great for liver health (among other things) 😊 Even the piths can be consumed for valuable nutrients. I've been juicing the peels and piths but it's quite bitter 🙃 I heard that when you mix it with a cup of blueberries it's quite tasty though.
I don’t know about other areas. I live in Texas, and most schools that have FFA, sell bulk oranges and grapefruit in the fall as a annual fundraiser every year. So, that may be somewhere to check during that time. They are always fresh and very good quality and support an important school organization.
I have the juicer attachment for my kitchen aid. You could find some on eBay.
Greetings from Romania! I love your videos, although I don't have the time to leave comments! Unfortunately, we don't have or I did not found in my country a freeze dryer, but I still look for it!
Just a tip freeze your liquid in the trays before you freeze dry it. Its really helpful.
A fun tip on the lemons-if you zest the peels and freeze dry those, you will make a wonderful lemon zest or powder to add to your recipes.
Thanks for sharing… I was wondering what you did with all that citrus!! I would love to find a place to get a bulk order like that. That’s awesome you are able to get that. Have a blessed week!!!
Oh WOW that’s awesome I’m only 45 minutes from Bakersfield California we definitely have great citrus
I’ve never even thought about dehydrating and using kale in recipes. Genius!
🤗 last week news said Florida citrus crop is a big failure. Like 40% survived. So $ are going up even if you find some. I did dehydrate some citrus & made some powder. That was successful. Hope all are feeling better. 👏👍
Beetroot powder plus lemon powder…pink lemonade mix!
You are such an inspiration. I don’t usually leave a comment, but I had been suffering with the “illness“ for three weeks. I am finally starting to feel better and your video has motivated me to go out and harvest from my garden. I am in Southern California so I’m able to grow things year-round. Thank you. I throw my beets into the air fryer with the skins on. Once they’re cool they’re very easy to peel.
Really enjoying your videos. Admire the way you live. I differently will try some of these things I can do too. Just brought a new freezer so can put more aside for winter instead of waste or giving a lot away then having to buy later. We are in the peck of harvesting here in Southland New Zealand.
I have a question about winter. Could you do "a day in a deep freeze"? Lol I'm curious how you deal with those chilly -20 days with only a wood stove! ❤
Thank you for sharing your preserving experiments! I'm curious how many quarts of beets you expect to get from 25 lbs? I'd love to get some pickled beets put up.
You are such a blessing to my family.
I've learnt a lot of things from you. Thank you and may God continue blessing you and your family
Making beer powder I heard was great for smoothies
Boiling the beets and slipping the skins is an easy method. Thanks for the tip on making lemon extract. I have been gifted Meyer lemons so it’s a perfect time to get juicing.
The lemon juice freeze dries easier if you freeze it first in your freezer. And yes it store’s beautifully in a jar on the shelf for fresh lemonade. It’s perfect. You should really try it again this way.
Good morning from La Quinta California! I see the dates you bought were basically grown in my back yard! We live about 15 mins from where they were grown. They are sooo delicious! Enjoy!!
Freeze the lemon juice into ice cubes, then into the freeze dryer. My friend does this and keeps some in the cube shape and grinds the rest like you did with the beet root powder.
It might not be worth the time or effort, especially because your life is so very busy, but you’re beet root powder was a bit of an inspiration. We do rainbow dinners, that’s every color of the rainbow in one meal. The kids like to help come up ingredients and while it’s easiest for me to just make a soup or salad to get in our colors, I’m rather intrigued with the powders. We make flavored pasta with herbs, powders, and citrus zest. This allows for making gluten free and or allergen free pastas. Our noodles are homemade and I do dry some of them for busy days, so I think I can make this work. 7 different color noodles, using a variety of different vegetable powders. We usually just toss it in garlic olive oil, some Parmesan cheese and colatura de alici (Italian anchovy liquid - think Asian fish sauce but a more salty and liquid then syrupy). The oil that is in the cans or jars your pizza anchovies are packed in can probably be saved for a few weeks as a topping for the pasta, (waste not) and would provide be a nice addition. Thanks for the creative ideas and sharing your lives with us. 😉🙃
Half lemon peels also make amazing candles.
I’ve never made extract. Now that is on my list to try. I do dehydrate slices of lemon and orange to add to our hot teas for a little boost of vitamin C
Yum you should make some borscht with the beets
It's on the meal plan for next week
See the rose red homestead channel for all the ins and outs of making lemonade powders.
I do not have a harvest right yet but I do have two dehydrators and they are going alot
I wondered why your kitchen was so bright, you must be able to see alot that goes on in the garden through the doors!!!
Such great ideas thank you
Love to watch all your ideas. You are such a great inspiration. I hope one day I can be more like you. Just out of curiosity how many freezers do you have?
Hi I live in Spain born in the UK but I have live here for 19years I have lemon ,lime Orange kumquat trees when I have a lot lemons I cut each one into 8 then freezing them on a tray then bag them up and they become ice cube's to add to drinks and your kids could suck them like lollipops after they have finished their drink xx🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋
I bought miniature ice trays and froze lemon and lime juice. I use them with baking or in water bottles.
I have a funny story about the beets....My husband had pickled beets as a kid and hated them so for his entire adult life he wouldn't even try them until this last summer. He ended up trying one last year and loved them, lol! I really wanted to make pickled beets last year but I could find the time (we kept getting sick when it was time to make them). What do you use the beetroot powder in? I use it in frosting to make it pink/red. I would really love to get a box of lemons, we probably go through 15 lbs a month (big family). One of the things about the glycerin vs the vodka is the vodka get's all those good essential oils out-more than the glycerin. That freeze dryer looks really nice to have! I didn't even realize they were available. 😅☺
I made pickled beets for the fist time this year, and I don't like them! I want to though! They just taste like dirt, even with a sweet spice pickling brine. I keep wondering if I can just re process and just add more sugar maybe...idk. I want to eat them though! haha
While you have fresh beets if you haven’t already tried see how you like them roasted with a little oil and black pepper and salt. I used to eat boiled beets but now my husband and I love the roasted one much better. I also love them pickled.
YT Red Rose. She made lemon powder for lemonade.
JESACA you are absolutely amazing.😊😊
Oh wow I'm down south I'm Baptist I wish I could order some
Try freeze drying the lemon zest. It sounds interesting. Take care and be blessed.
You’re amazing. Hello from Australia
Date milkshake are the best, growing up in California (San Luis obispo area)
Instead fig cookies, use dates
I have never used beet root powder. How do you use it in your kitchen? I can see that it would make a great way to dye paper or cloth for crafting, but I don't think that's what you have in mind!!!!! :-)
Yummy. I bet once the lemonade has completed drying it will be awesome powdered! I heard you are suppose to freeze it first in the tray then it freeze dried faster
I was just thinking today how nice it would be to have some freeze dried lemon powder for year round lemon water.
You can make lemonade with the freeze dried lemons too.
How amazing thank you for sharing! I now live in Cali I need to find something similar!
Very nice video, I would like those lemons
I don’t have a pressure cooker…..can I water bath the beets? I just discovered you site and am so enjoying it. Your children are such little treasures💕. I wonder why you don’t do any dairy?
My oldest son has an anaphylactic dairy allergy.
You can only safely water bath beets if you pickle them.
Hi, I Cann grapefruit, it's great
Have u ever fermented beets? I love them
Would you have a recipe at all please
Jessica, when I googled that info I found Putts citrus and hauling, but right below that it said permanently closed. Not sure what is up with that but I wanted to share what I had found.
I have seen folks freeze their liquids in the trays before putting them into the freeze drier so they go faster. Not sure since I don't have one. I have a friend in Bakersfield I will ask about the citrus. I was actually born there LOL Thanks for sharing. If I get any information I will share it with you.
I'm following your comment encase you get any information! Thanks for checking for everyone!
I like salting lemons and limes. They add a lot of flavour to meat and rice/pasta dishes, including the salty brine!
Wonderful work! I'm taking an IG break right now, and was missing your stories. I was curious ... Do you zest the citrus before juicing it or having the kiddos eat it? I like having lemon zest for cooking as well as orange zest for baking. I imagine it would be far tastier freeze dried than the air drying I do!
Would you mind sharing how much you pay for a box of lemons, when ordering them in bulk? Also, I thought you might enjoy knowing that I don't have a TH-cam channel and I live in the suburbs of Chicago (not on a large piece of land) but I'm still doing your pantry challenge! I'm having a lot of fun with it! Thank you!!
How long does the lemon with the vegetable glycerin take please. And are there other fruits and vegetables you can turn into extract with vegetable glycerin. I'm only asking as iv got 2 tubs of vegetable glycerin and I don't no what to use it with. Have you any ideas please Jessica. I love watching your video's there very inspirational. You have a lovely family 💞