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Preserving

I made applesauce.

September 29, 2011

I cut up apples and put them in a pot with a few cups of water. I added cinnamon sticks. I cooked the apples until they were soft. And then I ran them through my mom’s most fabulous food mill. This pushes the cooked apple out, leaving only the peels.  So, so, so much easier [...]

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I was a busy girl in the kitchen yesterday.

August 20, 2011

My mom gave me some more tomatoes, so I had another little canning session. It was a lot less nerve-wracking this time since I knew what I was doing. Anyway, I now have seven more quarts of local, organic tomatoes, which makes me happy. While I was in kitchen mode, I did some other cooking [...]

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If you need me, I’ll be in the kitchen, canning tomatoes.

August 10, 2011

I brought home several baskets of tomatoes from my parents’ garden yesterday. And a big ol’ pressure canner. So, my goal for today is to get all the tomatoes packed safely into jars.  I haven’t canned tomatoes since 1998, I think, but I am armed with an instruction manual so I think I’ll be ok. [...]

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Strawberry Freezer Jam

June 8, 2011

Last summer I sang the praises of freezer jam and I also shared a recipe for blueberry jam. (if you’re wondering what freezer jam is, go read that post!)  It’s not quite blueberry season yet here in the Mid-Atlantic region, though, so I thought a strawberry jam recipe might be more in order.  This is [...]

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Making do, jam style.

September 18, 2010

When I was making my jam this summer, I noticed that it was pretty difficult to get the jam into the jars without making a big mess. I remembered that my mom had a hand-dandy little wide-mouthed funnel-type (want some more hyphens??) tool that made the job a lot easier. Unfortunately, I didn’t have one, [...]

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Why Freezer Jam Rocks (plus, a Blueberry Jam recipe)

July 27, 2010

What is freezer jam?  Well, it’s similar to cooked jam, except that instead of being cooked and processed to a shelf-stable state, freezer jam is raw and is simply stored in the freezer.  It’s super-duper easy, and I think that the resulting product is something like 1000 times tastier than the canned counterpart.  The fruit [...]

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