Wondering how to preserve some of the great fruit from summer fruit and veggie stands? Besides freezing, canning, drying or making jam, making your own pie filling is another easy way to preserve the fresh flavor of summer and fall.
Making and canning your own pie filling now can provide a really great convenience food in your own pantry. Just pour a jar into the unbaked pie shell, and bake. Or put a cobbler topping over the pie filling. Spoon a dollop on ice cream or in your yogurt. Or, add a ribbon to the jar, and you also have a special home-made gift. Home canners may also like to control additives.
The keys for a successful and safe product are to use the right type of corn starch: CLEARJEL, and follow a recipe tested by OSU Extension.
CLEARJEL is a modified food starch that can stand the heat of processing and won’t break down in your jars in just a few weeks. Pie fillings made with CLEARJEL last about a year, if your family will leave them on the shelf that long. Family Food Educators have one-pound bags of CLEARJEL for sale for $3.00 in the OSU Extension offices in Redmond, Madras, Prineville and Warm Springs. Your purchase includes tested recipes for pie filling and some other treats. The recipe folder includes directions for apple, berry, cherry and peach pie filling.
Master Food Preservers will demonstrate how to make and can pie filling on Wednesday, July 8, 9 am to 12 noon at the OSU/Deschutes County Extension Office at the Fairgrounds in Redmond. The $15.00 class fee includes one pound of CLEARJEL, recipes and samples from the demonstration. Class size is limited, register by calling 541-548-6088 by July 6 or contacting glenda.hyde@oregonstate.edu.
Deschutes Co Extension Office |
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Redmond |
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$15 |
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Glenda Hyde |
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541-548-6088 |
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glenda.hyde at oregonstate.edu |
