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How to Can Green Beans in a Pressure Canner
Green beans are a great candidate for a first-time gardener and for someone new to canning. They grow well in lots of different gardening zones. They grow and produce rather quickly, and the more you...
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Build your Food Storage from Scratch: Homemade Strawberry Jam
Strawberries…….the “first fruits” of canning season (I can year round, but strawberry jam seems to me, to “begin” the real seasonal canning blitz!) and there is nothing like real, fresh strawberry...
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Build your Food Storage from Scratch: Canning Bing Cherries
Bing cherries. Everyone in the family LOVES them and they are so very simple to can up! My family eats them faster than I can put them up, and cherry season doesn’t last long, so I have to be quick!...
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My DIY Pantry Storage Solution for Small Spaces
For a while now I have needed more space to store my extra preps, especially my homemade canned goods and Thrive Life freeze dried foods. As cans and jars began piling up, I had a small basement room...
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July Skill of the Month: Boost Your Canning Skills
It wasn’t too long ago that canning was a quaint skill relegated to the hot, humid kitchens of Grandma and Great Aunt Pauline. Somewhere in the past few years, though, that has changed in a big way....
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How To Can Cherry Pie Filling
Can I just say how much I love cherries? They are one of my most favorite fruits. Sweet, juicy, and slightly messy. It seems like nothing is quite so good unless it stains like the Dickens. Late June...
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Canning Weird – Moving Beyond Jams and Salsas
I think just about everyone who learns to can foods starts with water bathed strawberry jam and tomato salsas. Some then progress to vegetables and fruits, and if they are really brave, step up their...
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Canning Cherries: Jam and Preserves
Disclaimer: Even though this article is about canning cherries, I am not even going to pretend to be an expert! I’m telling you all about my canning adventures because it wasn’t that long ago that I...
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Canning Basics: How to Can Peaches and Nectarines
I’ve canned a lot of things this year that I had never tried before: cherry preserves and salsa, for starters. But sometimes it’s good to go back to the basics and can a simple batch of no-frills,...
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Survival Mom DIY: Make Pectin From Apple Peels
If you make a lot of jam at your house, you probably go through a lot of pectin, whether it come as a powder in a little box or in a mylar pouch as a liquid. But do you know what pectin is or where it...
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