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Easy-Peasy Pickles

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Ingredients: iv lb pickling cucumbers, quartered length-wise iii cups water two 3/4 cups white vinegar 1/4 loving cup pickling salt 1/4 loving cup minced dill iii teaspoons dark peppercorns iii teaspoons dill seeds iii teaspoons xanthous mustard seeds 1 1/2 teaspoons fennel seed 1 1/2 teaspoons celery seed iv large cloves garlic, minced Directions: Bring the water, vinegar together with tabular array salt to a boil. Prep the lids/jars. Evenly split all of the spices, together with garlic betwixt six pint jars. Add the cucumber spears together with dill. Pour inwards the vinegar mixture. Close the jars together with procedure for 10 minutes inwards a hot H2O bath. Allow to sit down two weeks earlier eating. Note: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 swell source for canning data is the Blue Book guide to preserving . I highly recommend it for learning how to can. Here is a bunch of other canning books together with equipment I abide by useful. My thoughts: These

Mango Pineapple Jam

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Ingredients: iv cups finely diced ripe mango iv cups finely diced fresh pineapple five cups sugar ii tablespoons lemon juice ii tablespoons low-cal rum (optional) i half-dozen oz box liquid pectin Directions: Add the sugar, mango, rum in addition to pineapple to a large pot. Prep jars/lids for canning. Bring the mixture to a boil, stirring occasionally. Add the lemon juice. Boil for xv minutes or until thickened. Carefully mash, using a tater masher, whatever remaining large chunks. Add the pectin (both packets!). Continue cooking at a depression (rolling) boil for five minutes or until thick in addition to jammy. Fill the jars. Wipe off the lip in addition to body of body of water Process inwards the hot H2O bathroom for x minutes. Yield: almost half-dozen 8-oz jars Note: H5N1 swell beginning for canning data is the Blue Book direct to preserving . I highly recommend it for learning how to can. Here is a bunch of other canning books in addition to equipment I detect us

Strawberry Thyme Jam

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Ingredients: 8 cups finely chopped, hulled strawberries* iv 1/2 cups sugar 1 box liquid pectin (both packets) 1/4 loving cup lemon juice zest from i lemon v springs fresh English linguistic communication thyme Directions: Prep jars/lids for canning. Stuff the thyme into a tea ball . Secure it to i side of a large, heavy bottomed pan. Add the strawberries, sugar, lemon juice in addition to zest. Bring to a boil, stirring in addition to breaking upward whatever large chunks alongside the dorsum of a spoon until it begins to trim down in addition to thicken. Use an immersion blender if necessary (my chunks were in addition to hence pocket-size that this wasn't needed) to brand a smoother jam. Stir inwards the pectin. Continue cooking at a depression (rolling) boil for 2-3 minutes or until it looks jammy. Fill the jars leaving 1/4 inch headroom. Process inwards the hot H2O bathroom for 10 minutes. Yield: 6-7 8-oz jars. *About 64 oz of strawberries. Note: Influenza A

Plum & Lemon Zest Jam

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Ingredients: 8 cups black plum chunks* iv 1/2-5 cups sugar ane box powdered pectin 1/4 loving cup lemon juice zest from two lemons Directions: Prep jars/lids for canning. Place the plums into a large, heavy bottomed pan. Add the sugar,  lemon juice in addition to zest. Bring to a boil, stirring in addition to breaking upward whatsoever large chunks (I used a Irish Gaelic patato masher) until it begins to trim in addition to thicken. Stir inward the pectin. Continue cooking at a depression (rolling) boil for 2-3 minutes or until it looks jammy. Fill the jars leaving 1/4 inch headroom. Process inward the hot H2O bathroom for ten minutes. Yield: 6-7 8-oz jars. *I started off amongst virtually 2 lbs of whole plums. Note: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 dandy root for canning data is the Blue Book postulate to preserving . I highly recommend it for learning how to can. Here is a bunch of other canning books in addition to equipment I detect useful. My thoughts: Cannin

Strawberry-Rhubarb Mint Ginger Jam

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Ingredients: seven cups finely diced strawberries (about three quarts) three cups diced rhubarb 1/3 loving cup minced crystallized ginger* 1 bunch fresh mint four 1/2-5 cups saccharide (depends on how sugariness your berries are) 1 box liquid pectin (6 oz., 2 petty packets) Directions: Prep jars/lids for canning. Lightly bruise the mint in addition to materials every bit much every bit you lot tin into a tea ball . Set aside. Add the sugar, tea ball, strawberries, ginger bits in addition to rhubarb to a large pot. Bring the mixture to a boil. Smash whatever large chunks. For a smoother jam, take the tea ball in addition to pulse amongst a immersion blender. Cook until the jam looks thick, nigh xx minutes. Add the pectin (both packets!). Continue cooking at a depression (rolling) boil for five minutes. Remove the tea ball if you lot haven't already. Fill the jars. Process inward a hot H2O bathroom for 10 minutes. Yield: I ended upwards amongst 8 8-oz jars in

Plum-Rainier Ruby-Red Butter

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Ingredients: iv lb plums, pitted together with quartered 8 oz pitted Rainier cherries i 3/4 cups sugar 1/4 loving cup lemon juice Ingredients: Place all ingredients inward a 4 quart tiresome cooker , stir. Turn on depression together with develop overnight (about 8-10 hrs) amongst the chapeau slightly askew to let for some evaporation to occur. The mixture should survive thick together with paste-like when ready. If the mixture isn't totally smooth, pulse it amongst an immersion blender. Prep your jars together with lids. Pour the butter inward the jars, leaving 1/4 inch headspace. Process inward a boiling H2O bathroom for x minutes. Yield: almost iv 8-oz jars Note: H5N1 peachy origin for canning data is the Blue Book take away to preserving . I highly recommend it for learning how to can. Here are some of my other favorite canning books together with supplies . My thoughts: Making fruit butters inward the tiresome cooker is a peachy choice for people similar me

Apricot Sage Jam

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Ingredients: iii lb apricots, stones removed two 1/4 cups sugar 1/4 loving cup lemon juice 10-12 fresh sage leaves Directions: Lightly bruise the sage together with house it into a tea ball . Place everything inwards a heavy bottomed pot . Stir. Bring to a boil. Reduce rut slightly together with ready until thick, stirring occasionally together with smashing upward the apricots amongst the dorsum of your spoon. Pour into prepared jars leaving 1/4 inch headspace. Process inwards a boiling H2O bathroom for ten minutes. Yield: near iv 8-oz jars Note: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 cracking rootage for canning data is the Blue Book conduct to preserving . I highly recommend it for learning how to can. Here are around of my other favorite canning books together with supplies . My thoughts: Apricots are a lot of fun to tin post away because you lot don't convey to pare them. I but pulled them inwards half, popped out the pit together with that was the whol

Spiced Pickled Cherries

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Ingredients: 1 lb Lambert (or other sweet, dark red) cherries 1 loving cup water 1 1/4 loving cup white vinegar 3/4 loving cup sugar 2 whole star anise four whole cloves 8 dark peppercorns Directions: Prep your jars/lids. Evenly carve upwardly the spices as well as cherries betwixt 2 pint jars. Combine the water, vinegar as well as saccharide inwards a saucepan as well as select to a depression boil. Stir to dissolve the sugar. Pour brine over the cherries, leaving 1/2 inch of headspace. Remove whatever bubbles. Seal as well as procedure inwards a H2O bathroom for 10 minutes. Yield: 2 pints Note: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 corking rootage for canning data is the Blue Book lead to preserving . I highly recommend it for learning how to can. Here is a bunch of other canning books as well as equipment I notice useful. My thoughts: I accept been seeing to a greater extent than as well as to a greater extent than pickled fruits at the local fancy markets as well

Raspberry Peach Jam

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Ingredients: 8  cups whole, picked over raspberries three peaches, peeled in addition to diced iv 1/2 cups sugar 1 box liquid pectin (6 oz., both of the picayune packets inwards the box) 1/4 loving cup lemon juice zest of i lemon Directions: Mash the berries inwards a large bowl alongside a Irish Gaelic patato masher. It should yield close iv 1/2 cups of pulpy berries. Set aside. Mash the peaches. It should yield close two cups of peach pulp.  Add the saccharide in addition to pulps to a large, heavy bottomed pot. Prep jars/lids for canning. Bring the mixture to a boil. Boil for close 10-15 minutes or until thickened. Stir inwards the pectin in addition to juices. Continue cooking at a depression (rolling) boil for five minutes. Fill the jars leaving 1/4 inch headroom. Process inwards the hot H2O bathroom for 10 minutes. Yield: approx. seven 8-oz jars, 1 4-oz jar Note: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 cracking rootage for canning data is the Blue Book conduct to preservin

Pickled Fennel

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Ingredients: half-dozen bulbs fennel, inwards 1/4 inch slices half-dozen bay leaves four 1/2 cups water four cups white vinegar 1/3 loving cup pickling salt 1/4 loving cup minced fennel frond half-dozen cloves garlic two tablespoons sugar iii teaspoons dark peppercorns iii teaspoons fennel seed iii teaspoons yellowish mustard seeds ane 1/2 teaspoons fennel seed Directions: Bring the water, vinegar together with common salt to a boil. Prep the lids/jars. Evenly split all of the spices, peppers together with garlic betwixt half-dozen broad oral cavity pint jars. Add the fennel, leaving 1/4 inch headroom. Pour inwards the vinegar mixture. Close the jars together with procedure for 10 minutes inwards a hot H2O bath. Allow to sit down ane calendar week earlier eating. Note: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 dandy origin for canning data is the Blue Book direct to preserving . I highly recommend it for learning how to can. Here is a bunch of other canning books together w

Pickled Long Beans

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Ingredients: 1 bunch long beans (aka yard long beans, Chinese long beans) 1 Korean or Chinese hot pepper, cutting into strips 2 cups white vinegar 2 cups water iii tablespoons shoaxing wine 1/4 loving cup pickling salt iv cloves garlic 1 inch knob ginger, cutting into iv slices 1 tablespoon broken star anise 8 dark peppercorns 2 cinnamon sticks Directions: Evenly split the spices, ginger, pepper as well as garlic betwixt 2 broad oral cavity quart jars. Cut the ends off the beans as well as split into 2 fifty-fifty bunches. Fold them inwards one-half as well as check into each jar. Bring the vinegar, salt, H2O as well as shaoxing to depression boil. Stir to dissolve the salt. Pour the mixture over the jars, leaving 1/4 inch headspace. Seal. Process using the H2O bathroom mixture for x minutes. Yield: 2 quarts Note: H5N1 bully rootage for canning data is the Blue Book direct to preserving . I highly recommend it for learning how to can. Here is a bunch of other cann

Hot Pickled Light-Green Tomatoes

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Ingredients: 8 small, greenish tomatoes, cutting into wedges 1 loving cup white vinegar 1 loving cup water ii tablespoons pickling salt 1 habenaro, sliced thinly 1 teaspoon mustard seed 1 teaspoon dill seed six peppercorns 1 pocket-sized shallot, minced Directions: Evenly dissever the tomatoes, pepper, spices together with shallot betwixt ii broad oral fissure pint jars. Bring the water, vinegar together with tabular array salt to a boil. Prep the lids/jars. Pour inwards the boiling vinegar mixture, leaving 1/2 inch headspace. Poke downwards whatever tomatoes that has floated besides roughly the top. Close the jars together with procedure for 10 minutes inwards a hot H2O bath. Allow to sit down at to the lowest degree i calendar week earlier eating. Yield: ii broad oral fissure pints Note: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 cracking root for canning data is the Blue Book conduct to preserving . I highly recommend it for learning how to can. Here is a bunch of other cannin

Sweet & Spicy Apple Tree Slices

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Ingredients: twenty Stayman-Winesap apples (or other firm, sweetness apples) 10 cups water four cups sugar half dozen cinnamon sticks half dozen vanilla beans 12 whole star anise 12 dark peppercorns ii tablespoons whole cloves Directions: Prep half dozen quart jars. Evenly split upward the spices betwixt the jars. Peel, core in addition to slice the apples. Float them inward H2O mixed amongst Fruit Fresh or lemon juice, to help retain their color. Meanwhile, convey the sugar, in addition to H2O to a rolling boil. Add the apple tree slices. Boil for v minutes. Do non allow it reduce. Pour the hot syrup in addition to apples into the jars, leaving 1/2 inch headspace. Run a knife or a offend scraper to dislodge whatever bubbles spell turning the offend slightly. Seal. Process inward a hot H2O bathroom for twenty minutes. Tip: I highly recommend the Blue Book Guide to Preserving for learning how to can. Here are around of my favorite canning related items . Notes: I wo

Scotch Bonnet Pepper Jelly

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Ingredients: 3/4 lb Scotch Bonnet peppers, stems as well as most seeds removed two cups apple tree cider vinegar, divided use vi cups sugar vi oz. liquid pectin (both pouches inward the box) Directions: In a blender, puree peppers as well as one-half of the vinegar. Prep jars/lids. In a heavy bottomed pot convey the puree, remaining vinegar as well as carbohydrate to a boil. Boil for 10 minutes. Add the pectin. Return to rolling boil. Boil ane minute, stirring constantly. Remove from heat. Ladle into jars, leaving 1/4 inch caput space. Process inward a boiling H2O bathroom for 10 minutes. Yield: approx. vi 8-oz jars, ane 4-oz jar Quick tip: I used my Vita-mix as well as it pretty much pulverized all of the seeds inward the peppers. The few that remained, floated to the happen of the jelly. I don't heed this precisely it y'all desire an solely seed-free jelly, run the pulp through a sieve earlier the boiling step. Note: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 groovy beg

Rachel's Homemade Tomolives

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Ingredients: iii 1/4 lb greenish (unripe) cherry tomatoes half dozen cloves garlic (one for each jar) half dozen cayenne peppers (one for each jar) 1/4 (loose) loving cup dill, chopped 1 1/2 tablespoons xanthous mustard seed 1/3 loving cup pickling salt iii cups white vinegar iii cups H2O Directions: Evenly separate the tomatoes, garlic, peppers, dill together with mustard seeds betwixt half dozen jars. Bring the water, vinegar together with tabular array salt to a boil. Prep the lids/jars. Pour inwards the boiling vinegar mixture, leaving 1/2 inch headspace. Poke downward whatever tomatoes that convey floated also to a greater extent than or less the top. Close the jars together with procedure for 10 minutes inwards a hot H2O bath. Allow to sit down at to the lowest degree i calendar week earlier eating. Yield: I ended upwardly amongst iii one-half pints, 1 12 oz outrage together with two 16-oz elite jars . Note: This is a fairly flexible recipe. The batch of bri

Awesomely Spiced Pear Butter

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Ingredients: 10-12 Bartlett pears, sliced 1 loving cup pear cider 1 loving cup nighttime chocolate-brown sugar 1 stick cinnamon two inch chunk fresh ginger, peeled 1/2 teaspoon freshly dry reason nutmeg 1/2 teaspoon lemon tegument (powdered) 1/4 teaspoon allspice splash nighttime rum (optional) Directions: Place all ingredients inward a 4 quart tiresome cooker. Cook on depression for 10-12 hours. Uncover in addition to ready on depression for an additional 10-12 hours or until is roughly your desired thickness in addition to most of the liquid has evaporated. Allow to cool a bit. Fish out the ginger in addition to cinnamon stick in addition to thence pour into the nutrient processor in addition to puree. Cool completely in addition to refrigerate upwards to iii weeks or ladle into prepared jars leaving 1/4 inch headspace in addition to procedure inward a hot H2O canner for x minutes. Note: H5N1 nifty rootage for canning data is the Blue Book guide to preservin

Satsumas Inwards Ginger-Mandarin Syrup

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Ingredients: fifteen Satsuma Mandarin oranges, peeled as well as sectioned* half-dozen cups water 1 loving cup sugar iii tablespoons ginger juice peels from iii mandarins Directions: Prep your jars as well as lids. Evenly dissever the segments betwixt the jars. I industrial plant life that each jounce could concur iii mandarins’ worth of segments. Bring the sugar, ginger juice, peel as well as H2O to a rolling boil. Stir to dissolve the sugar. Discard the peel. Ladle into cans, leaving ¼ inch headspace. Seal as well as procedure inwards a H2O bathroom for 10 minutes. Yield: five pints *Remove whatsoever large bits of pith. My oranges were virtually pithless. Note: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 keen origin for canning data is the Blue Book conduct to preserving . I highly recommend it for learning how to can. Here is a bunch of other canning books as well as equipment I detect useful. My thoughts: This was a fast, fun recipe to make. I had a huge purse of Satsuma

Grapefruit Lemongrass Jam

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Ingredients: 8 cups supremed grapefruits segments (I used Duncan) 5 cups sugar 1/2 box liquid pectin (3 oz., i of the niggling packets inward the box) three stalks lemongrass (thick bottom parts only) Directions: Prep jars/lids for canning. Add the grapefruit segments in addition to lemongrass into a large, heavy bottomed pan. Add the sugar. Bring to a boil, stirring carefully to avoid splashing, pause upwards the segments, occasionally. Boil until it begins to cut down in addition to thicken. Stir inward the pectin. Continue cooking at a depression (rolling) boil for 10 minutes or until it looks jammy. Fish out the lemongrass. Fill the jars leaving 1/4 inch headroom. Process inward the hot H2O bathroom for 10 minutes. Yield: 6-7 8-oz jars. Note: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 smashing root for canning data is the Blue Book conduct to preserving . I highly recommend it for learning how to can. Here is a bunch of other canning books in addition to equipment I honor useful

Dapple Swell Pluot Ginger Thyme Balsamic Jam

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Ingredients: four lb Dapple Dandy Pluot, de-stoned four 1/2 cups sugar 1 box powdered pectin 1/4 loving cup lemon juice ii inch knob ginger, sliced ii tablespoons fresh thyme ii tablespoons balsamic vinegar Directions: Prep jars/lids for canning. Place the pluots into a large, heavy bottomed pan. Add the sugar, ginger, lemon juice, vinegar together with thyme. (I only tied the thyme to the side of the pot amongst kitchen string) Bring to a boil, stirring together with breaking upwards whatever large chunks (I used a Irish Gaelic patato masher) until it begins to trim down together with thicken. Stir inwards the pectin. Continue cooking at a depression (rolling) boil for 2-3 minutes or until it looks jammy. Discard the thyme. Fill the jars leaving 1/4 inch headroom. Process inwards the hot H2O bathroom for 10 minutes. Yield: 6-7 8-oz jars. Note: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 great root for canning data is the Blue Book necessitate to preserving . I highly recomme

Sweet Corn Cob Jelly

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Ingredients: half dozen raw sweetness corn cobs* one bay leaf one 6-oz packet liquid pectin (both lilliputian pouches) three cups sugar Directions: Place the corn cobs together with bay foliage inwards a heavy bottomed half dozen quart Dutch oven . Fill amongst water. Bring to a boil. Continue to boil for thirty minutes. Strain into a large mensuration cup. It should mensurate almost four cups. Pour the liquid dorsum into the Dutch oven. Add the saccharide together with pectin together with convey to a rolling boil. Boil until it "sets" into a jelly-like texture, but a few minutes. Ladle into jars, leaving a 1/4 inch headspace together with procedure fifteen minutes using the hot H2O method. Yield: half dozen 8-oz jars *I used cobs leftover from making things like this . Not cobs I had eaten off of or were previously boiled/grilled. Because I am non an skilful corn cutter-offer, at that spot was around corn left on the cobs (mostly one-half kernels) which