Q and A: Tomato soup, Elderberries, and Pickling peppers

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Tomato soup Do you happen to have a tomato soup recipe using dried powdered tomatoes? I have had a bumper crop of them this year and have canned a lot of whole, chopped, spaghetti sauce,...

Q and A: Canning strawberries, dry summer, harvesting rhubarb and proper range when pressure...

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Canning strawberries, dry summer, and harvesting rhubarb My grocery store opened a dollar section. I found a jar of WHOLE strawberries in lite syrup. How did they can them and not have them turn to...

Our first asparagus just got canned

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While Will has been very busy spreading manure in our Wolf Garden, where he's close to finishing, I've been canning up our first batch of asparagus. From that picking, I ended up with 11...

I canned on my new stove for the first time

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What a trip! The stove heated perfectly even though I had to light it with a lighter not the electronic ignition. (Still don't have a pure sine wave inverter … but soon!) The quarts...

Happy Thanksgiving

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With Thanksgiving right around the corner, tomorrow, I've been busy cleaning and cooking like mad as two of my sons and their families are coming for dinner tomorrow. I baked a big Hopi Pale...