Just how do you prepare apples for short term storage and long term food storage?  Is there a way to keep your apples crisp well past the harvest?  Yes… and we’ll teach you exactly how to do it. I love to bite down on a crisp apple during the dead of winter.  By the time

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When fall comes and you want to bottle apple sauce or apple slices for apple pie, an apple peeler machine and an apple slicer or wedger are a must in your collection of home canning equipment. Apple Peeling Machine An apple peeler machine makes peeling an apple a snap.  It not only peels the apple…

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I never remember a canning season that the old food strainer and sauce maker didn’t appear in our kitchen for apricot juice, tomato juice and apple sauce.  I loved the old thing… because it made my young canning experience easier. Momma would set up a table in the carport and hook on the food strainer

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I’ve tried several Chili Sauce recipes over the years and I keep going back to this Sweet Chili Sauce recipe that was shared with me by my best friend, Virginia Hansen. I have many sweet memories of canning and preserving with a phone attached to my ear visiting with my friend… who was also canning

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I love to have Pickle Relish on hand for hot dogs, tarter sauce, and hamburgers.  You’ll have to offer this Sweet Pickle Relish when you serve beef.  It’s a wonderful compliment. I remember the first year I preserved this Pickle Relish recipe.  It was late in the season and I was soooo tired of canning. 

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Pickled Beets on Thanksgiving is as important as the turkey and dressing.  At least it was pretty important to us at our Thanksgiving feast.  Grandma Ella’s and Mom wouldn’t open a bottle of Pickled Beets before Thanksgiving if their lives depended upon it. Just before dinner was served, the fancy relish dishes made their appearance

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