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How to Can Sour Cherry Preserves (Pie Filling)
Quick! Run to the market immediately and buy sour cherries before they’re gone!! Tell your boss it’s a family emergency. These cherries aren’t the kind of fruit that tempt you to nibble them straight...
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Can-It-Forward Recap
Last Saturday was National Can-It-Forward Day, a day to spread the fun and value of home canning. Erik and I had our own little party and taught two of our friends the art and science. There was...
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How to Can Whole Tomatoes
44 quarts of whole tomatoes and 18 quarts of Bloody Mary mix later, I’m trying to remember how we got ourselves into this. I think the conversation went something like this… Lindsay: How many pounds...
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How to Make Clementine Marmalade
Happy New Year!! I hope you all had a wonderful 2011. Ours was very exciting – we traveled to some interesting places (here and here), got engaged, and moved to Somerville, MA. Whew! 2012 promises to...
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Dark Days Challenge Week 5: Fish and Pickled Asparagus
There are two ingredients that I’ve been meaning to use more of. Thing #1 = jars of food in the basement. Before the 2011 canning season started, I promised myself (and Erik) that I would do a better...
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How to Make Applesauce and Spend the Day Biking
I keep telling my friends that canning doesn’t really take that much time. Well, sometimes, it totally does. It takes all day and you end up sticky and with a sink full of dishes. BUT you can avoid...
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Vanilla Rhubarb Jam (Small Batch Canning in a Large Batch Pot)
Maybe I’m late to the party, but I just realized this morning that I don’t have to fill my big canning pot with an insane amount of water every time I can. I have been trying out various small batch...
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How to Can Strawberry Lemonade
a.k.a How to Can Summer I don’t use my Ball canning book for recipes very often. It’s a great resource for information on safety and basic ideas, but most of the jams use commercial pectin, which I...
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How to Make Sauerkraut
We have complained about / celebrated our CSA many times on this blog. I hate / love it. I LOVE the actual farm. The produce is almost always top notch, the eggs are amazing, and it’s fun to support...
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I had planned to post a delicious way to use up all those CSA greens, but then Erik met a friend for a drink last night and I made myself a post-baby-bedtime cocktail. While sipping said amazing...
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