Making your own peppermint extract is surprisingly simple and is wonderful to have on hand in the kitchen. It works well if you want to make a delicious peppermint bark, a cake, or even a brownie with a little mint flavor. Recently, we were doing some holiday baking and we took a look at...
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Updated – December 2, 2020 This recipe for Cranberry Caramel Spread is a perfect preserve for the holidays. Drizzle it over ice cream, top a cheesecake with it, or add it to a cheese board. The preserve boasts a bright, beautiful color and is great preserve to gift this holiday season! The recipe is...
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It’s apple picking season and this Spiced Applesauce is a great way to preserve some of that bounty. We suggest using Fuji, McIntosh, Jonagold, Rome, Cameo, Jonathon, Red Delicious, Honeycrisp, Pink Lady for this Spiced Applesauce recipe. Look for flavorful, aromatic and firm apples and always use a mixture of varieties when canning. We’re...
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September is National Honey Month and it seemed fitting for us to celebrate with this Ginger Honey Pear Butter recipe. Not only because we have a pretty sweet line of honey jars, but also because we’ve been enjoying honey sweetened preserves and all the benefits of swapping honey for sugar in our jams, fruit...
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It’s time to get your fill of ruby reds, marsh, pomelo and oroblanco because it is National Grapefruit Month! These citrus fruits range from white to red and sweet to tart. The brightness of grapefruits lends them to be very flavorful marmalades, curds and jellies! We pulled together a few preserving recipes that feature grapefruit as...
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Updated – January 4, 2021 “Winter Fruit Mostarda Recipe reprinted with permission from Preserving by the Pint © 2014 by Marisa McClellan, Running Press, a member of the Perseus Book Group.” Traditionally, mostarda is whole or sliced fruit that’s been preserved in a mustard oil-infused syrup. The end result looks like innocent preserved fruit,...
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It’s soup season! Preserving soup at home is an excellent way to preserve your vegetables, and have a meal ready quickly. As we head into winter, having soup that isn’t from a can, or that needs to be thawed out is a real treat! But, it’s important to understand that not all soup...
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(Updated – September 15, 2020) Autumn has arrived and we find ourselves eating an abundance of fresh, crisp apples freshly picked from our local orchard. If you brought home a few too many bushels of apples from your orchard, you might need to put a few up for later. We’ve got some ideas on...
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