Home-canned Baby Food

Better late than never. The best time of year to make baby food is late summer or early fall.  Peaches, followed by apples and pears, reach their peak at this time, and these flavours are always well received.  If you are new to canning, then making baby food is a good way to learn the basics.  ...

Tomato Paste

In my experience, it is almost impossible to boil down pureed tomatoes to a consistency that can accurately be referred to as "paste", and yet, that is what the published canning experts tell us to do. Here is a much better alternative: Peel tomatoes and puree them until smooth. For every 4 cups of ...

Salsa!

I canned five pints of salsa today. The tomatoes were a mix of Amish Paste, Roma and Hungarian Heart. With night temps back up into the "teens" all this week, the rest of the fruit will have a reasonable chance to mature. I may be in full canning production by Saturday.

Last of the Beans

Green Beans

I picked the last of my green and yellow beans for supper tonight. A few carrots left. Normally by this time of year, I've finished the bulk of my canning, but at present, the tomatoes are still mostly green. The plants themselves are brown and spotted with blight, but they're dripping with ...

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