Category Archives: Canning
Pink Grapefruit and Rose Petal Marmalade Recipe
This one is for sure a Farmgal Recipe. Pink Grapefruit and Rose Petal Marmalade 4 large Pink Grapefruit, wash, trim, remove stickers, slice peel off, slice thin and then par-boil for 20 min, cut the grapefruit in half and get … Continue reading
Lime Pina Colada Marmalade (jam)
Lime Pina Colada Marmalade. Wash 8 limes and take off tags and the end.. then grate the peel off then all.. leaving as much white as possible on the lime. Then roll your limes well to help get the juice … Continue reading
Kumquat Marmalade
This is the official marmalade post for the Food in Jars Challenge for Jan These little fruits were Persnickety lol.. having never worked with them before but having heard good thing I decided that they would go on the list … Continue reading
Blood Orange Marmalade – Recipe
Over the next while, I will be sharing a few different marmalade recipes, most of them will come from 250 Home Preserving Favorites by Yvonne Tremblays book, or at least the basic’s of the recipe will.. knowing me, I will … Continue reading
Old Chicken- Tough Free range birds
So folks love to talk about how full of flavour free range chicken is, and if you butcher young birds in tractors that are moved daily, you get full flavour young tender well treated chicken.. But what do you do … Continue reading
Canning Costs- Ways to make it just a bit cheaper..
Last year as I was processing food, and canning this and that.. my mother looked at me and said with a laugh in her voice (after not having been on the farm for eight plus years), Girl you have every … Continue reading
Workshop Jam’s or Jelly Recipes 2016
These Recipes come out the Bernardin Complete Book of Home Preserving. I am not going into the details of how to water bath can these jams and jellies because this post goes with the hands on training and ideally you will … Continue reading
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How much Sugar did we use in a year on the farm!
This post is mainly from How much sugar did we use in 2011 with a five year update.. As I dipped into a small dish of yugurt and strawberries as a afternoon snack, I made a note in the farm … Continue reading
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Currents are in for 2015
We have had a few pickings so far this year, will get to weights later once math is done and the white and black in. They are good size this year but the bushes are in need of pruning and … Continue reading
Just another Day on the Farm 