Home preserving that's as good for the body as it is for the mind
This may be the best tomato soup recipe you’ve tasted. If you know folks who have been put off tomato soup because of the tinned stuff from the stores, they may like this. This recipe is easily doubled or tripled, and in fact, you may wish to do to make it worth firing up the…
This is a delicious, Tex-Mex style meat mix that lets you have tacos ready in a flash for meals or parties. The prep work for canning is also really fast: the entire mixture is raw pack. This recipe comes from the Ball All New book (2016). Like many Ball recipes, the sodium in this can be a bit…
This delicious beef in wine sauce is truly luxurious, gourmet-level home canning. Serve it over mashed potato. Or, try serving it over Squash and Carrot Mash made with your home canning. This recipe appears (as of 2016) in all three of the main private-sector home canning books: Ball Blue Book, Ball / Bernardin Complete, and the…
Minnesota Mix is a delicious, aromatic stewed tomato mixture including celery, onion and pepper. Use it as a base for baked pasta dishes, casseroles, rice dishes, curries, soups and stews, etc. Once you get used to the convenience of having it on hand, you won’t want to be without it. Make it at the end…
If you don’t like tinned yellow wax beans from the store, you’re not alone. Many don’t. But, home canned yellow wax beans taste nothing like that. Yellow wax beans (aka yellow snap beans) can up beautifully at home. Many people prefer them to home-frozen yellow wax beans, because while most varieties of yellow wax beans…
This is the USDA’s “Beans, Dry, with Tomato or Molasses Sauce” recipe: we just adjusted the seasoning of it so that the beans will taste like baked beans, even though they aren’t actually (neither are tinned baked beans from the store! Though you could say, they are baked in the jar.) If your audience prefers…
Home-canned mushrooms are delicious. Tinned mushrooms from the store are metallic tasting and rubbery-textured in comparison. But home-canned are really a gourmet-level product to have on hand. They really do taste fresh and pure mushroomy. Note these are plain mushrooms to be used as an ingredient in cooking, as opposed to pickled or marinated in…
Summer squash including zucchini (aka courgettes) is a low-acid food. To can summer squash or zucchini, you need to do it as an acidified condiment such as pickles, relish, or crudités, and water bath or steam can the jars. (See: Using Zucchini instead of Cucumbers for Pickling.) Otherwise, because summer squashes including zucchini are low-acid…
There are no current, approved guidelines for canning plain celery by itself. Consequently, it should not be done. It is not safe to guess at processing times. To preserve celery, you can freeze it, or dehydrate it. Canning celery plain by itself Some people do home pressure-can plain celery. You end up with celery that…
Home canned asparagus will be soft, but the taste is mild, subtle and fresh, and absolutely enjoyable in its own right. It’s a delicious, healthy and inexpensive way to enjoy asparagus year-round. Quantities of asparagus needed Numbers are approximate guidelines. On average, as a very rough guideline, expect to need about 1 1/2 kg…
Hot Air Frying, and Healthy Canning. Read More…
