Canning
I’m planning a canning day for berry syrup and some pickling. If you have any favorite recipes to share, please do. I’m looking for a syrup that’s a little bit chunky and somewhere in between syrup and pie filling.
I’ll post photos and recipes soon!
Clear Jel is what cornstarch wants to be when it grows up. I like using Clear Jel in my recipes and have had a few e-mails wondering what it is, so I thought I would answer publicly. Clear Jel is actually derived from cornstarch and is used commercially by bakeries and restaurants to [...]
Our local fruit stand had cases of beautiful bing cherries, so we couldn’t resist spending a couple of days canning. With purple fingertips, we stemmed and pitted 40 pounds of cherries and turned them into pretty jars of Cherry Pie Filling, Cherry Jam, Cherry-Boysenberry Jam, Cherry-Raspberry Jam, Cherry Vanilla Bean Syrup, and plain bottled cherries [...]
Since we purchased our pressure canner last year, we’ve wanted to try canning meat. We love the idea of being able to store meat from the cuts that we like to reduce fat and mystery meat. And, we can buy meat in bulk when it’s on sale and have a way to store it long-term outside of [...]
Our local fruit stand had beautiful apples and peaches this year, so we have devoured about a case of each and preserved several other cases in a variety of ways. We flash froze some of the fruit for smoothies, and bottled apple and peach pie fillings and Spiced Apple Syrup (with diced apple pieces…yum!). We used [...]
