Canning corn with my grandmother

I'm sure my grandmother canned corn because she canned a lot, but I was too young to get in on it. My mother canned a lot, but we didn't live where she could grow corn. I learned to can it myself a few years ago, and you're right; it can be a sticky mess! But those jars look beautiful all lined up. My memories tend more to milk cows and churning butter. It was a lot harder to do when I was a kid. :)

My grandmother always did alot of canning to. I really don't remember her canning corn but i'm sure she did. I know she put alot in the freezer when u got a freezer. She could fry the best corn i have ever tasted in my life. I fry it but it's nothing compared to hers.

I never did any canning with my grandparents but one of them did do some canning sometimes. I remember having to go pick strawberries and raspberries and apples though. The dang bees were horrible and you had to watch for snakes. That was awful.

I"m glad I never had to work on canning corn, although I am sure, that flies and all, you can look back and enjoy that time your your grandma :) There really wasn't any garden work that I did when I was younger. Portugal is a very small country, if one lives in a city there is no space for gardening at all, apartment building don't come with a garden The closest to that memory that I have was when it was time for peas and fava beans. People used to buy a lot, and then freeze. But before we had to open all the pods and take the peas or the fava beans out. It wasn't a complicated job and it was done inside, so no flies. But it was boring and I really had trouble when I had to stay still for a long time :) To keep us working and sitting the older ones would come up with the most outrageous stories LOL

Yes......we lived on a farm with two big gardens....we also had a grape arbor....apple trees....raspberry bushes etc.......we either canned or froze most of the stuff.....it's alot of work.....and I won't pick another chicken again in this lifetime!

It is a shame I have no idea about the growing of sweet corn. Most of my time was in city so I’m very naïve with the country life. From your writing I can see a picture you with your grandmother dealing with the corn under trees. Although you said it was a hard work and you hated, but to me it’s very interesting. I wish one day I will have a chance to do it.

Good memories though, aren't they?! Yes, I have similar memories. As you know I grew up on a dairy farm. We had field corn, but never sweet corn. So, when my girls were little I planted 5 acres worth on property I had near my Dad's farm and my one Aunt's house. My kids to this day have their own memories like that lol. We had enough corn to provide all of our extended family with sweet corn for the winter, and spent many days harvesting and putting it up. I also had a roadside stand set up at my Dad's driveway, and my own, plus there was enough to donate to the local volunteer fire dept for their 2 fall clambakes. We'd have a big family get together for days on end just for putting up the corn. The girls and I would take a tractor and wagon and go harvest, and the other relatives would start husking the ears and get it ready to cut and put it up. You're right...those flies just loved all that corn shooting it's creamy juice all over our arms and all. I did the 5 acres worth for quite a few years, but after a while it was too much work for the elders in their advancing ages, and I couldn't keep it all up alone anymore. Still, many fond memories.

I can remember canning and the joys that came with it, but I do not remember ever canning corn. Maybe I did, but just cannot remember it. My favorites to can was either Green beans or jams, and the pleasure of getting to eat them later on was just as rewarding as well. Sometimes this is something that I continue to truly miss as well.

There were several years I lived at my Dad's and he also had massive gardens. I can remember helping with the corn, tomatoes, peas, green beans, carrots, beets and so much more. I wasn't old enough to work in the kitchen but we (my older brother and I) had to do the shucking, snapping, washing and hauling. It was a lot of work but well worth the rewards. I sure do miss those days!! [b]~~AT PEACE WITHIN~~ **STAND STRONG IN YOUR BELIEFS**[/b]

Oh, yes, except that I did not enjoy helping with the canning, although I certainly did enjoy eating the food all winter. I remember all the cans stored up high along the wall of our basement, mostly peaches and apple butter, green beans, stewed tomatoes and three of four different kinds of pickles. There were other things of course, but those are the ones I most remember...those and the sacks and sacks full of black walnuts that we gathered in the forest and brought home to remove the soft green outer skin and store in the shells over winter. I did not mind shelling the nuts because those were going into cakes and cookies. The hardest chore was churning butter because I loved to do it, but my little arms would get so tired and sore. I would start out very enthusiastically, determined to make it to the end, but I never did. But that is because I was still quite small when my parents gave up dairy farming and sold off the animals, except for 5 that they kept to eat.

My grandmother did alot of canning also, including corn. I remember shucking corn. We would sit in the shade of the carport and remove the husks and silk. I didn't like it because you never knew when you would accidentally grab a worm. I hated that feeling. We would do the cutting inside, so didn't have the fly problem. I always thought it looked so cool how the corn would cut off in such neat rows. Nice memories

hi deebomb what I really hated when I was a kid on the farm was shucking the dried kernels off the cob for corn seed for planting.the hard' kernels bruised my fingers and i too could not'get oout of doingit either. we froze corn on the cob,we would braise the corn in boiling water for a couple of minutes, chill in ice water,drain and put in heavy plastic bags and seal. much easier than the old way of cutting the corn off the cob.I have done it that way too and its really tedious and done outside would be even worse. I was one of them that 'had a discussion on corn on the cob. I do so love corn' that way all warm aNd dripping with butter.yum

We had a good sized garden this year and i have frozen enough to last us till next year, i have never canned it i freeze it some on the cob, and then some cut off the cob.

Yeah, I had to can corn with my parents. I remember that not only did the flies like the corn and juice but also the bees sure seemed to enjoy it. I really didn't like finding the worms in the corn, either, and having to cut them out before we could take the corn off the cobs. In fact, I couldn't eat our corn for a couple months after we froze it. By winter, though, I had forgotten all the disgusting stuff and just enjoyed how good it tasted.