After receiving many questions about knowing when the saurkraut is finished fermenting I decided to do a post about it. I finished off my kraut this morning and took a few photos to share. After 2-4 weeks, depending on the temp, you should notice that your kraut is no longer bubbling, or is [...]
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When is My Sauerkraut Finished?
Posted in Canning, Cooking, Food Preservation, Food storage, Learning, Nutrition, Old Ways, tagged Canning, Cooking, fermenting, Food storage, Nutrition, Old Ways, preservation on December 16, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Scheduled Maintenance
Posted in Canning, Food Preservation, Homekeeping, Routines, Tools on October 28, 2009 | 10 Comments »
After giving it quite a workout this season, it’s time to store my pressure canner for the winter. This canner was an investment for me–one that I want to last me for a long, long time. So at the end of each canning season, I need to take the time to be sure it’s cleaned [...]
That’s Bananas Lady!
Posted in Canning, Cooking, Food Preservation, Nutrition, Recipes on October 25, 2009 | 10 Comments »
Iread an article over at Chiot’s Run the other morning about homemade ketchup that struck a note with me. We too have recently become fans of a homemade ketchup. It did take a while for us to make the switch but now that we have found the one I am not sure if we [...]
Using up green tomatoes
Posted in Canning, Gifts, Recipes on August 31, 2009 | 14 Comments »
We pulled our tomato plants out this past week. Both age and a small bit of blight were effecting them and they needed to go before the blight could spread. We got a great harvest from our tomatoes this year and other than a few disappointing varieties (one variety split open 9 out of 10 [...]
The Gift Cupboard
Posted in Canning, Food Preservation, Frugality, Gifts on August 23, 2009 | 11 Comments »
I’m in the middle of food preservation season in a big way, I’m sure I’m not alone in that. In addition to our food preservation needs, I keep my gift giving needs in mind as well. See, I think home canned or dehydrated foods make excellent gifts so I try to make extras of things [...]
Sticking up for an old favorite
Posted in Canning, Food Preservation, tagged Canning, heirloom fruit on August 14, 2009 | 15 Comments »
Update to original post – I went back to my method of partially cooking my chunky applesauce on the stove top, and then canning it. Perfection!
To each 5 quart saucepan of cut up apples, I added 1 cup water, 1 cup sugar, and cinnamon, nutmeg & vanillla to taste. I cooked the apples on medium heat just [...]
Dilly Beans
Posted in Canning, Food Preservation, Gardening, Recipes on August 13, 2009 | 4 Comments »
For those of you expecting Kristine today, she’s having some computer virus issues but should be back with us next Thursday.
I’m going to try and fill her shoes with a quick but oh so wonderful way to put up those green beans that are hopefully filling your harvest baskets these days.
Dilly Beans
(this makes approximately 4 pint [...]
Squeezing Maters
Posted in Canning, Food Preservation, tagged tomatoes on August 10, 2009 | 12 Comments »
As the tomatoes produce on a daily basis, and I pick and pick and pick, how to deal with them in an efficient manner becomes the issue. Anything bruised, bugged or not quite “perfect” goes to the animals for their fruit-fest feast while I keep the majority for myself. After the sorting of good [...]
Carmalized Onion Relish
Posted in Canning, Food Preservation on August 3, 2009 | 12 Comments »
Good day all. Please except my apologies for giving you another canning recipe. Besides the fact that most every day for the past month I have been canning, the last three days have been spent from early (early) morning until late (about 10pm) at night helping our daughter. She is buying her first home and [...]
Canning Potatoes
Posted in Canning on July 20, 2009 | 15 Comments »
Every year we grow our own potatoes because they taste just SO much better than those in the store.
And every year we end up with big potatoes, medium potatoes and little bitty potatoes.
The first couple of years that we grew them…many rotted. We unfortunately didn’t have, and still don’t have, a root cellar. Hopefully we [...]
