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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Dill pickle canning season is from the August first until the middle of September.   Dill pickles are the first memory I have of my Grandma Ella canning food.  She was standing in the kitchen putting grape leaves and a clove a garlic in the bottom of a canning  jar.  It was the grape leaves that

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