Water Canning Water canning is a beautiful preservation method for your excess foodstuff. When I delight in my memories of homesteading as a young girl, this is often the task that comes to mind. My grandpa often canned peaches, pears, and applesauce throughout the summer and fall, and the...
Equal parts chopped pears and blueberries Equal parts chopped fresh pineapple and papaya Adding homemade apple pectin to fruits which are low in natural pectin will not affect the flavor of the original fruit and will help bring the fruit mixture to a “soft-set” without excessive cooking. No...
Place the peeled and chopped pears in a large stock pot. You can just roughly chop the pears. You just want to be able to cook them quickly until they are soft so that you can extract the juice from them. Related Article:Best Pears for Canning: A Guide to the Juiciest and Most Flavo...
Pickled I used the thisokra recipe from the National Center for Home Preservationfor my pickled nopalitos. They turned out very tasty. Pressure Canned Prickly pear is sold canned both in water and with a small amount of vinegar. Unfortunately there are no tested home canning recipes for pressure...
Pears- Learn how to ripen pears and how to can them in thisbeginner's guide to canning pears. Rose petal jelly- one of the more interesting and unusual things to preserve isrose petal jelly. This isn't the only flower jelly you can make, you'll find recipes for dandelion jelly, lilac...
Like peaches, pears are a great starter food to can in a water bath canner. You can can them in halves, slices, or even make them into pear sauce! Get the directions on how to can pears here:How to Can Pears without Sugar.
Dehydrated Pears Watermelon Chips Ice Cream This gets its own category to itself because it’s so good that it really should be its own food group. We were at the thrift store one day when we found ahand-crank ice cream makerwhen we had a lightbulb moment and realized that we should ...
If you're dead set on learning how to can corn without a pressure cooker, it's possible, but you'll have topickle it. Pickling your sweet corn in vinegar makes it acidic enough to besafe for boiling-water canning. If you only have a boiling-water canner and don't want to buy a ...
Water bath canning works well for apples, peaches, nectarines, apricots, pears, plums, tomatoes, grapes, cherries, lemons, papaya, mangos, and pineapple. Always choose the best quality fruits for canning – they should be free of disease and mold and be at their peak ripeness. It’s best ...