Canning

If you grew a bunch of turnips this year, like I did, you are probably wondering what to do with them all. I have canned turnips before, but you need a pressure canner to process them. I just finished up a bunch of pickled beets, and was wondering if I could do something similar with…

For the past couple of years I have been having fun making a variety of different kinds of jams. This year I took my boys to pick blueberries, and decided it was time to try making homemade blueberry jam. We weren’t disappointed, it is delicious!   Blueberry Jam Recipe Ingredients: 4 1/2 cups prepared blueberries…

I love rhubarb, and it’s that time of year again where I am looking for all the things to do with rhubarb. My plant is actually doing really well this year, much better than it did last year. This year I decided to try making rhubarb butter for the first time, and it turned out…

What Can I Make With Lots of Pears?   If you have a lot of pears on your hands, you do with them what you would do with apples, make pear sauce! If you’ve never had pear sauce before then you are in for a real treat. Pear sauce is prepared the same way as…

If you have a big plum tree or you know someone who does, you know that it’s easy to run out of plum canning recipes. You can only eat so much plum jelly! I have tried many different plum recipes over the years, and these are my favorites. I hope you enjoy them as much…