Canning

Preserving food by sealing it in an airtight container using a pressure or boiling-water canner. Fruits and vegetables used for canning should be varieties recommended for canning. They also should be young, tender, and recently harvested (no more than 12 hours old).

Recipes

  1. Pickled Dilled Green Beans

    There's no need to haul out the complicated canning equipment to create an easy version of dilly beans. This recipe keeps easily for two weeks in the refrigerator.

  2. Tangy Marinated Vegetables

    This is a beautiful take-along side dish when made in and served out of a 1-quart canning jar. Eat these veggies with your fingers to satisfy a picnic craving for something salty and crunchy--without resorting to a bag of chips.

  3. Lemon-Ginger Marmalade

    This golden-hued marmalade is right at home on toast, but it's also divine stirred into plain yogurt or dolloped on coconut ice cream. Find pectin where canning supplies are sold--try supermarkets or hardware stores--or online at canningpantry.com.

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Articles

  1. Discover Canning & Beautiful Blue Ball Jars (A Giveaway)

    Fri, 17 May 2013

    confess. I have completely embraced the canning jar craze. My go-to drinking glass is ..... doesn’t have them. Check yours. Canning and me go way back. To my credit, I’ve have a collection of canning jars for about fifteen years. When

  2. Canned Wine: Are You Hip Enough?

    Mon, 12 Dec 2011

    the cool kids know the trendiest new wines come in a can. The New York Times reports craft brewers aren’t the only ones canning their concoctions. Take Denver winery Infinite Monkey Theorem , which sells its black muscat wine in a can. “Being in a state

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Food Blogs We Love

  1. More Adventures in Tomato Canning

    Wed, 22 Aug 2012

    ago , we're in the middle of full-on canning season. About 10 days ago, our CSA added ..... plants. You guys know the drill with canning tomatoes , and hopefully you've seen ..... some snapshots from our 2012 tomato- canning experience. It covered the better part

  2. Down to the Last Three Jars

    Wed, 8 Aug 2012

    Reflections on Canning Tomatoes, A Year Later Canning season is upon us. We can tell because every time around ..... comments and notes from readers who are gearing up for their own canning projects. That's one of the things that thrills us most

  3. Jam On: Late Summer Raspberry Jam Recipe

    Wed, 1 Aug 2012

    all year". A tasty guest recipe from Jam On: The Craft of Canning Fruit What’s better than a glass of cold, bubbly, deep-red Lambrusco ..... New York, and other specialty stores. Jam On: The Craft of Canning Fruit Viking Studio, a member of Penguin Group (USA) | August

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