Category Archives: Canning

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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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

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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

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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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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

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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

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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

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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

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Turkey Barley Veggie Canned Soup with Recipe

I took the left over meat that I could pull off the bones, and then, I added two diced onions and a good amount of garlic.. about 8 cloves with 1/4th cup of plain white vinager, and I cracked open … Continue reading

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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

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