{"id":4329,"date":"2014-10-01T03:00:13","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T07:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=4329"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:00:13","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T07:00:13","slug":"q-and-a-painted-mountain-corn-and-canning-grape-juice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2014\/10\/01\/q-and-a-painted-mountain-corn-and-canning-grape-juice\/","title":{"rendered":"Q and A: Painted Mountain corn and canning grape juice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Painted Mountain corn<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>We can grow Painted Mountain corn in our short growing season here, too. It&#8217;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?<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Elizabeth<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Whitefish, Montana<\/em><\/p>\n<p>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. &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n<p><strong>Canning grape juice<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>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?<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Thanks and sure hope you are feeling better!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Sheryl<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Newport News, Virginia<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Thanks Sheryl. I AM feeling a lot better and am really glad to have gotten rid of that crummy gallbladder!<\/p>\n<p>No, you don&#8217;t have to do anything special to your grape juice. Just water bath it as usual. I&#8217;ve done a ton of juices this year so I can make more jelly in the future. As I&#8217;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&#8217;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. &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Painted Mountain corn We can grow Painted Mountain corn in our short growing season here, too. It&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4329"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}