Category Archives: Canning
Freezer Spring Checkups- Counting is Bee’s Knees LOL
I have talked to friends that tell me that their freezers are pretty empty in the spring, and so they don’t need to do this much.. I have talked to other friends that don’t have clue what is even in … Continue reading
Canning Round up for May – 2017
2017 Please note for ease of tracking, I will be rounding everything up or down into pints.. example, if I do 7 quarts of something, it will be written as 14 pints, if I do 8 80z jars it will … Continue reading
Canning Round up for April – 2017
2017 Please note for ease of tracking, I will be rounding everything up or down into pints.. example, if I do 7 quarts of something, it will be written as 14 pints, if I do 8 80z jars it will … Continue reading
Canning Round Up March -2017
2017 Please note for ease of tracking, I will be rounding everything up or down into pints.. example, if I do 7 quarts of something, it will be written as 14 pints, if I do 8 80z jars it will … Continue reading
Cranberry Sauce for Roasted Pork Ribs
This recipe did three good size Pork Spare ribs of 4 to 5 ribs each. 1 80z jar of Cranberry Jam ( As you can this was a full berry jam) 2 oz of Soy Sauce 2 oz of the … Continue reading
Posted in Canning, Pork
Tagged Cranberry Sauce for BBQ, Cranberry Sauce for Pork Ribs, Homestead raised Pork, Pork ribs
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Food in Jar’s Challange -February -Salt Preserving
It’s the first of February and that means it’s time to take on the second project in the Food in Jars Mastery Challenge. This month is all about salt preserving. For the purposes of this challenge, we’re going to focus … Continue reading
Posted in Canning
Tagged Curing with salt, Food in jars challange 2017, kumquat marmalade, Salt Preserving
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Canning Round up 2017-Jan
The goal of course is to have a nice full pantry with as much as possible done off the farm itself 🙂 2017 Please note for ease of tracking, I will be rounding everything up or down into pints.. example, … Continue reading
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Tagged Canning, Canning on the homestead, Farmgal, Farmgal Canning Log, Pantry Challange 2017, Winter canning
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Mad for Marmalade – Seville Orange Marmalade
Mad for Marmalade event inspired me to do one more marmalade canning session, leading to six a half pints.. I wanted to make one pure traditional marmalade with Seville oranges and they were finally! in stock at Farmboy in the … Continue reading
Ginger Raspberry Jam Recipe
Ginger Raspberry Jam 3/4th cup of fresh peeled, finely cut ginger 4 cups of mashed raspberry (these were frozen from our farm) 7 cups of sugar 2 TBSP of lemon juice Pinch of salt 1 package of pectin … Continue reading
Posted in Canning, gardens
Tagged Canning, canning jam, Farm fruits, raspberry, Raspberry Ginger Jam, Soft Fruits
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A Canadian Delight Lemon-Crown Royal Jelly
This was made with the pectin from the lemon peel but it was then removed from the final jelly.. as you know, we have been having a marmalade week and if you wanted, you could turn this recipe into marmalade … Continue reading
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Tagged Lemon Crown Royal Jelly, Lemon Crown Royal Marmalade, Lemon Marmalade, marmalade
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Just another Day on the Farm 