Home Canning Becomes Popular for Budget and Health
Jessica Sullivan reports rising interest in home canning as a practical hobby amid food price hikes. Surveys show about half of American families gardened this summer and 40 percent plan to can their harvest, highlighted by Glen Mowery and family who canned over 400 quarts including green beans and tomatoes for winter.
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Cucumber Catsup Recipe Yields Three Pints
A home canning note lists cucumber catsup made with cucumbers sugar onions cinnamon red pepper allspice salt vinegar and pepper. It instructs combining vegetables cooking until tender adding spices simmering until thick then jarring and processing in a boiling water bath for ten minutes yielding about three pints.
Home Canning With Curry Peas And Sharing Tips
Fresh green peas are processed with curry powder in hot jars at 10 pounds pressure for 40 minutes. The Mowery family cans together, stressing safety, time, and personal satisfaction from homemade preserves and gardening notes.
Hawaiian Pear Chutney Recipe Summary
Hawaiian pear chutney blends Western Barrett pears crushed pineapple and raisins with vinegar brown sugar and spices for a sweet sour relish. Garlic candied ginger almonds add crunch. process in jars for preservation yields about three pints.
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Gazpacho Recipe with Vinegar and Olive Oil
A classic gazpacho recipe uses five large tomatoes and two quarts of tomato juice with onions green peppers and seasonings. Blend in batches then process pints in a boiling water bath and chill before serving garnished with tomatoes and parsley.
Parsley Jelly From Parsley Juice
Parsley jelly made by boiling parsley in water then straining. Reduce juice to 3 cups and combine with sugar and lime juice, heat until dissolved and boiling, add liquid pectin, boil hard for 1 minute, skim foam, and ladle into hot jars for about 5 half pints.
Spirited Fruit Salad Preparation Instructions
Read like a vintage canning note detailing selecting firm fruits peeling and slicing pears and peaches, syrups, maraschino cherries, and canning steps. Provides timing for cooking each fruit, draining cherries, filling jars with fruit and syrup, and processing times for pint jars.
Home Canning Equipment Needs Checklist
A ready reference lists essential tools for home canning including non metal utensils jars lids cords scales and timers. It stresses selecting the right canners whether pressure or boiling water bath and ensuring jars are intact and water covered during processing.
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