Our summer bounty of jars Putting up food for this year is pretty much over, and I’m always kind of glad the busy work of canning, freezing, fermenting, and pickling is over till next year. I still have a few pumpkins, candyroasters, and apples to do something with, but the heavy lifting is over. Even though putting up food is a tremendous amount of work looking at all the goodness sitting on my canning shelves and on my freezer shelves…
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Preserving/Canning
We’ve never dried tomatoes until this summer and oh my we’re in love with them! I’ve been eating the tomatoes…
A few weeks back The Deer Hunter put in a request for squash pickles. I had plenty of squash and…
The time for putting up food has arrived. We spent Saturday afternoon in the kitchen doing just that. From here…
Our okra crop has been terrific again this summer. I can barely keep it harvested before more pods are ready…
Several weeks back a reader asked if I could share my apple butter recipe. The recipe I use came from…
Chitter skimming syurp “When I was young, I always looked forward to the late summer because it meant syrup-making time.…
Pickling with vinegar and fermenting are methods used to preserve the bounty of the garden. We’re all familiar with cucumber…
Fox Grape Bonanza on the Blue Ridge Divide In 1947, we moved into the Steer Creek area near the Blue…
Chow chow is a vegetable mixture that is either pickled or fermented. I don’t recall Granny ever making chow chow…