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There’s just something special about homemade applesauce. Maybe it’s the smell of apples simmering on the stove, the warm cinnamon filling the kitchen, or the satisfaction of opening a jar months later and tasting a little bit of fall. Whatever it is, homemade applesauce is one of those simple recipes that makes preserving food at home feel completely worthwhile.
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There’s something so satisfying about opening a jar of homemade blueberry jam and knowing you made it yourself. And the best part? You don’t have to wait for fresh blueberry season to make it! Frozen blueberries work beautifully for homemade jam.
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We harvested another round of cucumbers from our garden and wanted to bring you along in our process of canning bread and butter pickles. We decided to preserve these as bread and butter pickles since we previously canned dill pickles. We weren’t able to find a recipe in the Blue Ball Canning Book for these pickles and therefore had to review several recipes online and develop our own bread and butter pickle recipe. As you scour the internet, you will find many variations to this recipe. We found many recipes where people made refrigerator pickles and did not can the pickles, however, we wanted to find a canning recipe so that we could add these pickles to our long-term food storage in our pantry. The great thing is that any pickle recipe can be canned.