canning
Unsafe Techniques When Canning at Home
Canning at home is a wonderful way to preserve the garden harvest. But it can also be dangerous. Learn what to avoid in order to stay safe.
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Are Tomatoes Acidic Enough for Canning?
Are tomatoes acidic enough? The safety of your family depends on whether there is enough acid when canning. Find out how to be sure.
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3 Chill-Chasing Soup Recipes and 2 Quick Breads
Need a meal that matches the autumn weather? Here are three soup recipes and two quick breads.
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The Power of Potatoes
So much food goes to waste every day. Storing our homegrown foods for future use is one way of stopping much of this waste.
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Preserve Recipes Turn a Bountiful Harvest into Holiday Gifts in a Jar
You could have a pantry full of superior edibles made from preserve recipes that make convenient, thoughtful gifts in a jar from your pantry or freezer.
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How to Make Bath Bombs: An Easy DIY Gift
If you’re just starting your soapmaking journey, learning how to make diy bath bombs is a good first step.
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Fun and Flavorful Garlic Scapes Recipes
Don’t have any garlic scapes handy? No worries. You can substitute green onions in most of these garlic scapes recipes.
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An Easier Way of Making Tomato Sauce From Scratch
Add to Favorites You’ve mastered how to care for tomato plants. Now you want a tomato canning recipe, or just an easier way of making tomato sauce from scratch. Would …
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Selling Homemade Food: Laws and Considerations
Cottage food law is the legal permission or ban on selling homemade food. In the past few years, states have either tightened or loosened their laws concerning who can sell bread, pickles, and jellies and how they can do it.
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How Do Blueberries Grow?
How do blueberries grow in my garden when there seems to be so much stacked against them? For the last few years, I have been enjoying homegrown blueberries.
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Growing Jalapeño Peppers
Add to Favorites I remember well the first time I started growing jalapeño peppers in my vegetable garden. That was years ago, when growing jalapeño peppers was considered a novelty. …
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Making Spaghetti Squash for Dessert
Add to Favorites By Lenora Larson – We who combine gardening and cooking as collaborative passions continue our quest for the perfect crop. Our specifications are simple. The plant must be …
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How to Make Lard from Pork Fat
Leaning how to make lard is not only easy, but it saves money and is healthier for you than store-bought lard because you know where your pig fat came from.
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Building Planter Boxes for Strawberries
Add to Favorites By Sue Robishaw – It wasn’t that the old chicken wire covers we’d constructed five years ago didn’t work, they did. I had an idea for building …
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Eliminating Weevils in Flour and Rice
Their little legs wriggled on my spoon. How harmful could they be? Casting my eyes to each side, I watched for approaching family members as I dropped the little bugs in the sink and stirred the flour.
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