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June 18, 2018 14 comments

Strawberry Lemonade Concentrate Recipe (Water Bath Canning)

If you want to enjoy fresh strawberry lemonade year-round, this strawberry lemonade concentrate is the perfect recipe to make during strawberry season. By canning this concentrate, you can easily mix up a refreshing drink anytime—just add water, sparkling water, or even ginger ale. It’s one of the best ways to preserve strawberries for later use.…

June 12, 2018 0 comments

Growing Bean Sprouts in a Jar

It’s satisfying to grow your own food at home, and there are many ways you can do that. You can plant a garden, whether in your backyard or in containers, and you can even grow plants on your kitchen counter! Growing bean sprouts is very easy and they are ready to eat in just a…

June 9, 2018 3 comments

Rose Petal Jam Canning Recipe

How to Can Rose Petal Jam We moved to live closer to the mountains a few years ago. One of the wonderful things we are now enjoying is the beauty of wild roses every May-June. I have been looking for ways to preserve the scent of these beautifully fragrant flowers. This year I am canning…

June 3, 2018 8 comments

The Best Homemade Cherry Jam for Canning

It’s cherry season again, and time to start canning cherry jam! Cherry jam is very easy to make. This recipe uses liquid pectin. Cherry Jam Recipe Ingredients: 4 1/2 c. fully ripe cherries, pitted and finely chopped*7 c. sugar2 pouches liquid pectin *You can either remove the pits by hand or you can use a…

May 2, 2018 0 comments

Canning Fig Jam

On Thursday last week I looked in the refrigerator and saw the plate full of figs were starting to turn brown. Neither my husband or I are big fig eaters but I still didn’t want them to be wasted. I checked an old preserving book that my mother gave me not long ago to…

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