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I don't know why, but a friend of mine was asking on another NG about doing this. I recommended he check here. Any thoughts, suggestions? Has anyone here done...

Well, my pawpaw trees are bearing and the fruit doesn't last long. Does anyone have recipes for preserving pawpaws? Jam, preserves, jelly, puree, etc.? Does...

We had fairly heavy frost on Sunday and Monday nights so the remaining veggies got picked. Now I have another kitchen floor full of food to be preserved. ...

As I understand it, if you make jelly (or jam) from fruit without adding pectin, you can test that there's sufficient pectin by adding a bit of the juice to...

Neither olive oil nor vinnegar need to be refrigerated; yet when mixed (as in home-made salad dressing), the recipes all ask for it to be refrigerated (where...

A long time ago I had a recipe for making apple jelly and then making apple butter out of the pulp/peel etc that was left over. It worked very well, but I've...

Hi I've just retrieved lots of dry spices in plastic pots from storage. For how long are they safe to use? They were stored at 10C - 20C. NT

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So far I've pulped and pureed eleven cups of persimmon puree. Three cups were used in making two different persimmon cakes, both turned out well but I...

My husband came home from Lowe's yesterday and asked if I wanted another freezer. Since I cannot get anything else in the 17 cubic foot upright we now have, I...

Hello! A week from now I'm going to come into posession of twenty or thirty gallons of applejuice. Most of it I'll make into hard cider, but some friends...

1. Wash the eggs and put them slowly in a container full of lime water or mustard oil. The eggs will not only be preserved for long - they will not get spoiled...

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hello group, my jelly making seems to be hit or miss. not just one type of fruit. but a variety. I follow the instructions like I am working on a cure for...

I read an article somewhere on the net that said you can hang marinated jerky from a rack in a gas oven, with a pan underneith to catch drippings, and that...

Picked up about 25 lbs of Japanese persimmons yesterday. The kind that have to be dead ripe to be eaten. They're spread out in the garage on a table awaiting...

I have endlessly tried to find ways to stop the rutin crystals from forming on my pickled asparagus. Is there some process that i'm not aware of ? If Tin cans...

hello, its pear picking time, besides the usual pear recipes,. pear butter, pear preserves, pear jam, pear jelly, any body got any other ideas for pears. a ...

I posted in rec.food.cooking about dried fruit from Meduri's and then got to wondering whether I could make the same stuff at home. The product I'm...

I spent an hour cleaning (trimming from the stalks) $3 worth of brussels sprouts for these little suckers. Some were really tiny. Will see in a month or so...

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hello I have about 25lbs of persimmons, the Oklahoma kind. looking for recipes and suggestions. thanks to the group

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