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If you’re looking for a simple way to preserve an abundance of blueberries, homemade canned blueberry pie filling is one of the best recipes to keep on hand. Whether you’re using freshly picked blueberries from the garden or frozen berries from your freezer, this recipe is an easy and delicious way to stock your pantry with a homemade treat you’ll reach for all year long.
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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.
Making and canning your own chocolate sauce couldn’t be any easier. As long as you have the ingredients on hand, canning supplies and are comfortable water bath canning, you can easily make chocolate sauce to add to your long-term food storage at a fraction of the cost. This chocolate sauce is very versatile and can be used to top ice cream or other desserts, to make chocolate milk or hot cocoa or any other way you see fit.