If you want to try making food by yourself, you should try the homestead approach. In this kind of lifestyle, you are going to grow food in your backyard. But if there is one thing more fun than this, it must be homestead canning. Canning is actually a great hobby and survival project. It allows […]
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Food Storage: Oven Canning
You will never find this Oven Canning technique in a USDA or National Center for Home Preservation website; there are just too many variables to say that the process works 100% every time with every food type. However, if you reread the section on food safety and see that for botulism to grow it needs […]
Preserving Food without Freezing or Canning
Typical books about preserving garden produce nearly always assume that modern “kitchen gardeners” will boil or freeze their vegetables and fruits. Yet Preserving Food without Freezing or Canning goes back to the future—celebrating traditional but little-known French techniques for storing and preserving edibles in ways that maximize flavor and nutrition. Translated into English, and with […]
Kitchen DIY: Cooking in a Pressure Cooker
In any disaster situation, energy is a premium. If you are cooking over a fire – every second of heat is paid for several times over with work finding, carrying, chopping, and stacking firewood. If you are using a petroleum based fuel you have to rely on your supply – which is something you may […]
Canning Funnel Review
I just wanted to share my favorite design for a canning funnel. For those that don’t know, a canning funnel sits in or on the lip of mason jars to funnel whatever you are trying to preserve into the jar without getting crud all over the lip. This is important because if you have […]