Homemade refrigerator dill pickles that taste just like Claussen dill pickles.
Canning refrigerator dill pickles is very easy. Did you know you can make dill pickles, one jar at a time? It’s a good thing, because I only had five little cucumbers to make into dill pickles! My cucumbers are growing VERY slowly this year. Yes, you can make one jar of dill pickles. You…
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Easy recipe for canning spiced peach jam.
Canning spiced jam might seem a little hard, but it’s really not once you get the hang of it. A few weeks ago I took my boys to go pick peaches at an orchard. It was really fun. I tried making some homemade peach jam and it was really good. I decided to try…
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Easy recipe for homemade lemon pepper seasoning salt. One of my favorite homemade seasoning mixes!
Many people are looking to make their own seasonings and mixes for cooking. One motivation is that it is almost always less expensive to make your own, and you also have the advantage of controlling the amount of salt and artificial ingredients such as MSG that are found in many store bought counterparts. Here…
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Easy copycat recipe for Hershey's chocolate syrup.
Hershey’s Chocolate Syrup There are several recipes for homemade Hershey’s chocolate syrup floating around on the Internet. Some of them said that they turned out runnier then the store-bought version, so I kept looking for a recipe that would result in a comparable if not better version of the store bought favorite. Have…
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Easy recipe for canning cinnamon apples. One of my favorite fall apple canning recipes!
Canning Cinnamon Apples I first tried making cinnamon pears a couple of years ago, and they were a big hit. I couldn’t make enough of them, my family ate them so fast…so I was really excited to find out that you can also make cinnamon apples. They are now one of my favorite apple…
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