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Kitchen Gift Guide: Homemade Bread Recipes, Mason Jar Cookie Mixes, and More!
Find creative kitchen gift ideas for homesteaders and friends alike.
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A Rhubarb Juice Recipe for Canning
Add to Favorites (Works well for small children suffering from constipation.) By Maggie Laverman Here is the canning version of a rhubarb juice recipe that is useful for young children suffering from constipation. …
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How To Make Sauerkraut
Add to Favorites By Linda Baccei This is a method I adapted that combines getting things started with dry salting and then using a brine solution as needed. You will need a large …
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A Guide to Using Steam Canners
Steam canners have been around since at least the early 1900s, but for many years the USDA maintained that steam canning is unsafe.
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Choosing and Using Canning Lids
Lids for home canning come in one of two diameters, depending on whether they fit narrow-mouth jars or wide-mouth jars.
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How To Select Canning Jars
Add to Favorites By Gail Damerow Canning jars come in two main categories, depending on the diameter of the opening. A narrow mouth jar, also known as a regular or …
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Store Salad Greens for Later Use
Add to Favorites By Anne Hart Lieb, Ohio — Storing salad greens has been an issue for many gardeners, because green leafy vegetables normally do not respond well to canning, drying, …
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Fill Your Pantry With Help From Mother Nature
You can fill your winter pantry at little to no expense by carving out the time to tap into the bountiful resources that Mother Nature has to offer.
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Homemade Pickled Beets
Beets are probably the most neglected, unappreciated and underused vegetable in the American diet. It’s a shame really.
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The Secret to Good Pickles
A wise homemaker clued me in to the success of pickles — your water source. The minerals in water can interfere with the pickling action of the vinegar.
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Canned Apple Pie Filling
A grocery bag of nice apples will do about 7 quarts. I still hand peel and slice; I don’t like the size of slices you get with an apple peeler.
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Reader Tip: A Fast Way to Preserve Whole Tomatoes
Add to Favorites Dear Countryside, I remember my mother and grandmother canning “stewed tomatoes.” To do so they boiled water on the stove and ran cold water in the sink. …
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Congrats on the Harvest! You Did It!
Add to Favorites A successful gardening season means you’re probably drowning in produce right now. And you don’t want it to go right into the compost pile. So how do you …
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Maple-Vanilla And Peach-Oh-My!
Add to Favorites When I invited seven friends over for a girls’ jamming and canning night, none of us had made jam with pectin before, and we had never attempted to make anything shelf stable. We knew …
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Trash to Treasure: Canning Chicken Stock
Add to Favorites By Traci Wilmoth Stock is delicious and so useful in many dishes, especially soup. It can be expensive to buy at the store, and homemade stock is …
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