Bread and butter pickles are an absolute favorite of mine. They’re a savory/sweet combination that only a pickle can achieve. This recipe is straight from the Ball Book of Home Preserving; I consider Ball the foremost expert on all things preserving.
Tag: preserves
Honey Spiced Pears
Some friends of ours have a pear tree that overwhelms them with abundance every year, and this year that turned into two laundry baskets full of pears for me. I am always on the search for real food canning recipes that cut out the processed sugar used as a preservative in anything using fruit, and I was thrilled to find this recipe.
Cold Packed Cucumber Dill Pickles
I love this pickle recipe, because I can make a jar as I pick cucumbers instead of saving cucumbers until I have a lot and doing a mass canning. I also love this because it’s relatively effortless.
Jen’s Honey Strawberry Freezer Jam
My dear friend Jen, the crock-pot recipe queen, shares this no-cook freezer jam she made after a morning of strawberry picking with her boys. The pectin with a calcium powder lets you use low sugar, honey, or no sugar at all, and the end result was an amazing jam sweetened with honey, quite possibly the best jam she has ever had.
Honey Sweetened Grape Jelly with Homemade Apple Pectin
I’m not all that crazy about growing my own fruit, being careful about the source of the food I buy, carefully preparing to preserve such fruit, then having to preserve it with a box of Sure-Jel off the store shelf. So I researched how to make my own pectin, and it turns out apples are the answer. I have an apple tree just dripping with apples right in my front yard.
Perfectly Preserved Peach Pie Filling
I spent the day canning peaches and, with two gallons of chopped peaches left over, decided to make my sister some peach pie filling. Having a lot of the work already done might encourage a busy, working woman to treat herself to a couple of homemade pies over the winter.