I’ve found over a dozen creative ways to preserve cucumbers, and I’ll also share a few of my favorite pickle recipes too! Cucumbers are harder to preserve because they have a high water content. That makes coming up with ways to preserve them a bit harder than apples or other fruits ...
2. Use Fresh Lime Juice to Keep Them From Browning Lime juice is another option often used to preserve apples. Like lemon juice, lime juice is an acidic fruit juice, and it will have a similar effect on the apples. Just use a teaspoon or two to coat the apple slices, and they will...
A time-honored way to preserve fruit is to cook it with sugar into jams, jellies, butters, conserves, preserves, marmalades, chutneys, and syrups. It may seem counterintuitive that sugar, which is known to feed microorganisms, can preserve food — but thekey is overwhelming amounts. When ba...
Crops such as garlic, sweet potatoes and unshelled nuts will keep for two to six months at cool room temperatures, and they require no processing, containers or refrigeration. Foods that will keep for two months or more under...
This is one of the best ways to preserve greens, herbs or hard fruits like apples and pears. It’s best and easiest with a dehydrator; most are relatively inexpensive, and you can find small, simple versions for as little as $40. Or you can use an oven on the lowest setting, ideally...
If your basket runneth over this season, here are 6 techniques you can employ to help preserve the harvest and enjoy the fruits of your labor: 1. Water Bath Canning For high acid foods with a pH of 4.6 or less, water bath canning is a tried and true method for preserving nutrients whi...
Another fun activity with leaves is preserving them! You can press and preserve their rich fall colors by “glycerinizing” a few stems of the most colorful maples.See how to preserve flowers and foliage. So don’t just watch the falling leaves drift by your window- get out and get raking...
Ways to serve chives Use chives raw or dried in salads, vegetables, poultry, fish, soups, sauces, eggs, cheeses, butter, or vinegar. Chives can be added to dishes both warm and cold. Add chives at the very end of cooking to preserve their flavor or, better yet, do not cook them at...
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Wrap each beet in aluminum foil; leave the stem protruding from the foil. Bake beets in a dish with a tight-fitting lid and 4 to 5 tablespoons of water. Bake on the middle rack until tender, about 1½ to 2 hours. Baking beets will preserve their flavor and enhance their color. ...