Homemade Mustard Recipe

The best homemade mustard recipe ever. Compliments of my mother. Warning! This mustard is spicy hot!

You take 4 oz of dry mustard.

Add in one cup white vinegar. Mix with a beater in a saucepan. Let sit overnight.
THE NEXT DAY:

Take 3 eggs and beat them well. Add to the mustard mixture.

Add in one cup of sugar. (no low calorie recipe here!)

Cook over low heat. Really low. Stir it often. Cook until it starts to thicken.

With any luck you’ll find a sucker willing participant to do some stirring while you partake of your favorite beverage. (I like that word, partake!)
Anyway, cook until it thickens. If you cook it too quickly, the eggs might cook a bit (they’ll look like tiny pieces of scrambled eggs. Not to worry! Just pour the mustard through a strainer.) Once the mustard has thickened, pour into canning jars. I use small half pint mason jars.

This mustard is a great hostess gift. Add a label and ribbon and you’re set to go. We really like this mustard with a slice of brie on a stone ground cracker. Yum.
4 oz. dry mustard
1 cup vinegar
(mix and let set overnight)
1 cup sugar
3 eggs-beaten well
Add to mixture and cook slowly over low heat until thickens. Maybe 20 minutes?
STORE IN REFRIGERATOR
I double this homemade mustard recipe to make the 6 half pint jars. Enjoy!
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Ode to a Canning Jar (How to Get Your Canning Jars Back!)

When I can or preserve something in those special canning jars, and give the preserves away as a gift, I would like to get the jars back afterwards.
Why? They’re pricy, and truthfully, once the recipient eats the jam and the jar remains, she or he will find that the two-part lid isn’t so great for everyday storage and use, putting in and out of the dishwasher, etc. Sure, it works as a normal jar as long as you have both lid pieces, but once the insert is misplaced, you basically have a cute jar with a metal rim and a great big hole in the lid.
So yes, I want them back! I can sterilize them and reuse them. The recipient is most likely going to throw them away like any old jar. My money, down the drain.
I came up with a way to get my jars back. It couldn’t be easier!
I stuck a label with a little poem on the jar, to let recipients know I wanted the jar back. My husband wrote the poem for me after I complained about the cost of buying canning jars and how I bet most people throw them out and don’t realize they can be used again. The poem goes like this:

A canning jar is truly something,A special gift that keeps on giving.When it’s empty, don’t despair,Please send it back for another share!
*(And the lids, too!)

My little poem above asks for the lids back, for convenience. Canners may actually not reuse the flat metal insert to the lids a second time for safety reasons, but they can use the rims again. I find that most non-canners don’t distinguish between lids and rims, so it is just easier to ask for the lid back and you’ll get the whole thing intact.

Voila, jars back!   http://www.shockinglydelicious.com/ode-to-a-canning-jar-how-to-get-your-canning-jars-back/