This week my daughter was given the opportunity to pick field peas…lots and lots of field peas. On Wednesday I shelled peas with her from 2:00 in the afternoon until 10:30 that evening. In return she gave me approximately three five gallon buckets of peas to take home and shell for our use. Today I am canning those beautiful peas. As I type, the first canner full is de-pressurizing. It looks like I will get in the neighborhood of fourteen quarts. What a blessing! I adore field peas with a little mayonnaise mixed in them, served with a big piece of cornbread slathered with butter, and homemade sweet pickles on the side. Nothing more is needed to make a meal!
Beautiful peas ready to bring to a boil…
All my canning needs ready and waiting…well, almost all of them. I forgot my funnel and will definitely need it.
Ball Blue Book…the canner’s bible…when canning I always keep it close by.
Jars, sterilized and hot…waiting to be filled…
Hot lids and rings…the steam fogged up my camera lens…
Filling the hot jars with hot peas…
Pressure cooker loaded and ready to start rocking…
Out of the pressure cooker…I look forward to the lid-popping concerto…
Now it’s time to get back in the kitchen for round two. After the I finish the peas, I’ve got green butter beans to can. Mmm mmm…we’ll eat good this winter.
Until next time…
And I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in his season; there shall be showers of blessing. Ezekiel 34:26
Well can I put in my order??? I LOVE those peas too!! Brings back really fond memories…especially the cornbread with butter on it!! A cold glass of milk and I’m set!! Hugs, Pam
Are those black eyed peas? I’ve never heard of field peas. How old is your canning book? I have the 100 year anniversary version. I canned 10 half pints of plum/nectarine jam today and last weekend I canned 14 quarts of nectarines. The tree still has more nectarines to ripen! When the apples are ripe I will be canning apple sauce like a fiend. That tree is loaded, too! I had no idea canning was so much fun. I asked for a pressure canner for my birthday. I know I will get it because DSH is very good that way!
XO
They look perfect!
~Have a lovely day!
O, Pam. I wish I could share with you. I’ll do the next best thing and think of you while I eat them.
Hugs, Judy
No, Brenda. These are not black-eyed peas. They are a variety of field pea called “crowders”. The taste is different than black-eyes. Very yummy.
It sounds like you’re quite busy canning…I bet the jam and nectarines are wonderful! My first canning experience was with applesauce…and I bombed it bigtime. That’s when I bought my first Ball’s Blue Book of Canning…the year was 1977. Up until then I only canned by “old-timer” advice. The book I used for the peas is dated 1993. I’ve misplaced my older one. After you asked the date of the book, I looked for the one I cannot find. I hope I haven’t lost it along the way.
I hope you do get your pressure canner. I would be lost without mine…I’ve actually got two. My mom gave me hers after she stopped using it, and I bought one before she passed hers along to me. Sometimes I have both canners going at one time.
Good to see you! Judy
Thank you, Teresa.
Those peas will be perfect on a winter’s supper table.
Thank you for stopping by and leaving a comment.
You have a lovely day, too. We are getting glorious, gentle rain.
Judy
Beautiful post, Judy. Being a northerner, I’ve never had crowders. They look so beautiful cannned. Like you, I love the sound of those lids pinging as they seal. Just as much, I like the sound of the “pop” when the lids are opened on a cold winter night and I can cook supper using my beautiful wood cookstove.
My canning season will start in earnest in a few weeks. We do a bit of canning, freezing, dehydrating, and root-cellaring. In the winter I am so grateful for God’s bounty! Picking raspberries tomorrow!!!
Thank you, Stephanie.
Crowders are yummy. They are worth visiting the south for.
I hope you have a bountiful canning season! I also dehydrate and freeze, but I don’t have a root cellar. Raspberries sound wonderful. I buy them as a treat to myself from time to time. As you know, they don’t grown in Mississippi.
What a blessing to have a wood cookstove! I would love to have one…but we have few cold winter nights.
Thank you for stopping by. So glad you give God the glory and thanks he is due!
Judy
I shelled many a pea in my day from my grandparents garden! Thanks for sharing. I enjoyed this post.
Hey Catherine,
I’m glad this post brought back grandparent memories…how precious those are memories are. I hope you have a blessed Sunday. Thank you for dropping by and leaving your comment. It’s always good to “see” you.
Judy