Someone here can probably answer, (I have no experience here) but some one on the harvest forum can probably answer.

Tree,

I agree with Amy that you need to ask these questions on the Harvest Forum so the canning experts there can respond. The food preservers over there have an amazing wealth of knowledge and experience and can answer your questions.

With the use of green tomatoes in a recipe intended for and safety-tested for cucumbers, take into consideration that cucumbers and tomatoes have a different pH, which might be a safety issue. The folks at the Harvest Forum can address that. I've never made pickles with the red hot cinnamon candies so cannot comment on whether that recipe could be used with green tomatoes instead.....anything I said would just be a guess, and even though I do a lot of food preservation, I'm certainly not a canning expert. I've only used red hots with either apples or pears in an approved recipe.

With the candied jalapenos, there are many ways to make them. I usually make them using either the Ball Blue Book or National Center for Home Food Preservation's recipe for Bread and Butter Pickles, subbing in sliced jalapenos in the place of sliced cucumbers. I first learned it was okay to make that substitution by googling and finding a thread at the GW Harvest Forum a few years ago. Another way to do it is to use either the Ball's or Mrs. Wage's Pickling Mix for Bread and Butter Pickles. Or, Mrs. Wage's now has a Zesty Bread and Butter Pickle Mix that works just as well for candied jalapenos as it does for zesty (hot!) bread and butter pickles. I make a ton of these every year and give them away as Christmas gifts. People love them---every people who do not otherwise eat a lot of jalapeno peppers.

I'm sorry you have had so many family deaths this year. It must have been a very difficult year and I hope that 2015 is more kind to your family.

I'll link the Harvest Forum for you. In order for them to tell you if the candied jalapeno recipe you found is a safe one, you will need to either link the recipe or type it for them. There are so many candied jalapeno recipes floating around (some are for canning, others are not) that they will need to see the recipe you're referring too in order to comment on it.

Dawn

Here is a link that might be useful: Harvest Forum

Thanks all
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