Spirited Peaches
These peaches are stored in a "spiked" syrup: let the jars sit until Thanksgiving or Christmas and serve over pork or roast chicken »
Pear and Raisin Pie in Jars
I was given a flat of pears (13) from my friend Liz, straight from her grandparents garden. She had eaten her fill and thought maybe I could use them in...
Apple-Rhubarb sauce
Now that the fresh berries have subsided, I combined stewed rhubarb with applesauce to make a fruit puree to add to my oatmeal each morning »
Drying Herbs
My dear friend Sandy, from Soroptimist, kindly leant me her dehydrator so I harvested my herbs for drying »
Raspberry Jam with liquid pectin
I went raspberry picking. Some are frozen some to mix with apple sauce later in the season, jarred some in water for smoothies and muffins, and jammed a batch with...
Berries in Jars
I found out from my fantastic new book, that you can hot pack berries for baking. I experimented with blueberries and strawberries »
Fanny Farmer
I was recommended to find a cookbook by Fanny Farmer, circa early 1900's, that has several sections on preserving. Since everything in it, except the spices, was grown locally, I...
Crushed Tomatoes
Again this year, it took 6 hours to blanch, peel and dice a bushel of tomatoes. There were 6 with bad spots that I didn’t want to use for preserving...