Peter Piper Day

Peter Piper Day...

The eight jalapeño pepper plants in my garden have been kicking out about a dozen peppers a day for a couple of weeks now.  As I bring them inside, I fill quart sized Ziploc bags and toss them in the crisper draw of the refrigerator.  This morning, that drawer said "DO SOMETHING WITH ALL THESE PEPPERS, WOMAN!"  So I did...

When my grandson went down for his lovely three-hour nap, I pulled the water bath canner down from the top of my upright freezer in the utility room (Boy, I need to clean that room up and add some shelves!).  Nine pint jars were filled with water and submerged in the water bath canner to get sterilized for canning. Lids were put in a small saucepan to simmer and get the wax seals soft to create a good seal.  Minced garlic, vinegar, and water were put in another pot to simmer while I proceeded to slice up all those peppers.  There were nearly 100 of those rascals.  Jars were filled with peppers and vinegar solution, lids tightened, and then boiled in the canner for ten minutes.  Easy peezy and done in less than an hour.  The yield was 6 pints of pickled peppers...all six lids popped perfectly after removing them from the canner.  That pop!  Music to my ears...