Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Food Storage Canning Butter

Preppers this is more like ghee and last much longer than other home canned butters. Never can salted butter you will end up with grainy butter. Choose the sweet or unsalted butter to can. Blessings!

Friday, February 26, 2016

Pressure Canning Tomato Sauce Soup and Taco Sauce


Pressure canning some tomato soup and tomato sauce. Tomato Soup 4qts Tomato Juice 3 ½ cups chopped onions 2 cups green, red or yellow peppers, 1 cup carrots 1 cup celery 7 bay leaves 1 tblsp whole cloves 1 clove garlic 1 cup brown sugar, or 1 tblsp molasses and 1 cup white sugar, 2 tsp salt. Add all ingredients and simmer for about 20 minutes then strain vegetables from soup and puree them in the blender (pick out spices). Process in pressure canner 1 " head space 40 minutes for pints.

Canning Tomatoes and Okra

Starting from the raw ingredients needed to can Tomatoes and Okra or Tomatoes and Zucchini to the final canned product. This video offers a very close and clear view of basic canning technques as well as some special pointers to help your canning process go as sooth as the skin of a ripe tomato.

Thursday, February 25, 2016

Spaghetti Sauce Canning Recipe - Delicious!

How to make and can spaghetti sauce using garden fresh tomatoes - a really good recipe. The fact that it can be canned using the water bath canner makes it even better. Enjoy making your own!

Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Roasting and Pickling Peppers

These are 2 methods of preserving peppers from your garden harvest. Roast then freeze your chile and bell peppers. And pickle your jalapenos and banana peppers. Pickling Brine recipe - 4 C Vinegar , 1 C Water, 1/3 C sugar, 2 TBSP Kosher Salt. You can also add garlic or whatever else you want.

Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Spicy Salsa Recipe - Canning Summer Salsa

This is a simple recepie that offers you lots of options on just how hot you can make it. Substitute milder peppers for hotter ones to tame it down or hotter peppers for mild if you like the heat like I do!

Makes 7 pints:

5 lbs. (red and green tomatoes seeded and chopped)

1 lb. Chile (3 jalapeanos, 3 bell peppers, 3 sweet banana peppers, 3 small tabasco peppers, 4 small red chilis, 4 tai dragon Peppers, 2 super serrano peppers, 4 cherry hot peppers, 2 anaheim peppers, 3 garden salsa peppers, 3 perreroncini peppers)

1 lb. sweet onion

1 cup white vinegar (5% acidity)

1 lime ,juice, and zest of

1 tablespoon cumin powder

3 tablespoons dried parsley

1 tablespoon salt

1/2 teaspon black pepper

4 garlic cloves, minced

6 ounces tomato paste

1/4 cup fresh chopped cilantro

Canning Pineapple Jam

How to make and can pineapple jam. This Jam is super simple requiring few ingredients so that makes it a perfect jam for a first time canner! It makes a wonderful delicious jam that can easily be used on ice cream or pound cake for a layered dessert or trifle or a great banana split!