Canning and Preserving
Tips, tricks, and recipes on how to can and preserve your harvest.
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Preserving the Pawpaw Fruit
The Pawpaw fruit is a highly perishable fruit native to North America. It can be found up and down the East coast and as far west as Nebraska! Once on the ground, the fruit only lasts a day or two. However there is a simple method for preserving the Pawpaw fruit to have access to it throughout the winter months. Today we will talk about preserving the Pawpaw Fruit, but before we get started, a little history. What is the Pawpaw Last fall we discovered a small Pawpaw grove just inside the wood line at our home. Once we figured out what it was and how delicious the fruit is,…
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How to Use an Abundance of Eggs!
One of the great things about owning chickens is the supply of farm fresh egg. Farm fresh eggs have a richer deeper yolk than store bought which lends to a better tasting egg! And even better, chickens are fairly low maintenance animals, so you get a high yield for very little work. They are also so relaxing to watch as they scratch around. Chicken watching is one of my favorite pastimes on the homestead. To me that is a win win! But even with just five chickens, my family of five was having a hard time keeping up with the ladies production. As we speak I have five eighteen counts…
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Five Canning Tips To Make Your Harvest Life Easier
Canning can be a fun and rewarding process, but if you are not careful it can quickly turn stressful. These five canning tips will help make your harvest life easier and keep your canning kitchen stress free. I was introduced to canning as a child as I watched my mom and grandma bustle around a hot kitchen with canners going, hair all disheveled. The kids always took part in the prepping of the vegetables or fruit, but were quickly shooed away when the canners came on. Later on in my early adult life I took to waterbacth canning jams and jellies, but in no way shape or form would I…
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Easy How to Can Green Beans
It is that time of year!!! Canning season! Canning season is such a fun time of year, even if it is a lot of work. It brings back so many fond memories of my childhood. One of my favorite things to can, are green beans. Is it hard to can green beans you ask? No way!! It is so so simple and I am here to tell you how! I get it, canning can be intimidating, especially when a pressure cooker gets involved. However, canning is truly so easy that within a few easy steps, you can be canning like a pro in no time! In this post I…
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How to Can Deer Meat- Easy Recipe
Fall is the time of year when we start to see our pantry and freezer really stock up. One of my favorite additions is venison. But freezer space is often a hot commodity, so making this meal shelf stable is essential. Learn how to can deer meat with our easy recipe today! Canning deer meat is perhaps one of the most delicious and versatile ways to prepare venison. The canning process produces a tender bite of meat that is slightly less gamey than other preparations. It can be used in everything from soups to deer barbeque. Canning deer meat in the pressure canner breaks down the muscles and silver skin…
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Slowcooker Apple Butter Recipe
Using a slow cooker is one of the easiest ways to make apple butter. It tastes like you have stood over a wood burning fire stirring apples in a copper kettle all day. For those who may not know, apple butter does not actually contain butter. The “butter” term is used to describe its butter like texture. Apple butter is instead a scrumptiously decadent thickened applesauce spiced with cinnamon, cooked low and slow all day. It is delicious spread over toast in the morning or used in baked goods. Check out our recipe for homemade light bread to try it out on! It is so good! Apple butter is so…
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Simple Apple Sauce Recipe
When the apple harvest starts to come in I get the itch to make some of my favorite apple recipes to sustain my family through the winter. One of these family favorites is applesauce. So simple and so delicious. Yes, I realize that I can go and buy applesauce from the store, but there is nothing quite like fresh homemade applesauce. When it is made from scratch at home, I am able to keep the ingredients local, the quality high, and there is no added sugar (unless I just want to add some). My twins love applesauce. Really what 5 year old doesn’t? They love applesauce just plain in a…
