Painted Mountain corn

We can grow Painted Mountain corn in our short growing season here, too. It’s one of the only breeds of corn I can dependably grow here every summer. The animals like it but I have a hard time selling the taste to my family as corn bread. How do you and Will use your Painted Mountain?
 
Elizabeth
Whitefish, Montana

We use our Painted Mountain as cornmeal. As it is a low-sugar variety, you may want to add a little more honey or sugar to your cornbread as we modern people have become more used to a lot more sweetening than older corns provide. We love its nutty, rich flavor just as it is but we realize that tastes differ a lot. — Jackie

Canning grape juice

I have been making muscadine grape jelly and will have some juice left over. I want to water bath it and save it for next year. Do I need to do anything special to it?
 
Thanks and sure hope you are feeling better!

Sheryl
Newport News, Virginia

Thanks Sheryl. I AM feeling a lot better and am really glad to have gotten rid of that crummy gallbladder!

No, you don’t have to do anything special to your grape juice. Just water bath it as usual. I’ve done a ton of juices this year so I can make more jelly in the future. As I’m now using my Mehu Liisa (Thank you, thank you!) I have so much MORE juice than I did before so I can make jelly at my leisure or on years when we don’t have a fruit crop. Just bring the juice up to a very warm temperature (not boiling) and ladle into hot jars. Then process as usual. — Jackie

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  1. Whew that’s a relief!! I had done exactly as you said last year and then made jelly with the juice this year. Then I gave some to a friend and that’s when I started wondering if I was going to kill her…ack! I have found, like you have, that there is so much more juice with the Mehu Liisa that you can save lots for later. Very convenient. So glad you are feeling better.

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