When you’re canning fruit, most methods require that you mix up a light to heavy syrup to add to the jars of fruit prior to canning. This entails measuring sugar into water in a pot and heating it all up, hoping you didn’t make way too much or not enough, and dripping sugar-water everywhere while […]
Making Freezer Jam with Freeze Dried Fruit
I came across a great deal on strawberries the other day, and being down to only peach jam at our house (which nobody likes) I snatched up 3 flats of strawberries to make a lot of jam. I don’t like plain strawberry cooked jam–it tastes just like store bought strawberry jam to me, so I […]
Dehydrating Apples
If you’ve wanted to know how to dehydrate apples, here’s your tutorial. We love dehydrated apples around here. They’re a great snack and store really well if you can keep them hidden so that the little people don’t eat them all up the day after you dry them! To dehydrate apples, you’ll need a few […]
Preparedness Quick Tip: Dehydrating Frozen Vegetables
Did you know you can dehydrate frozen vegetables right out of the bag? Frozen veggies are one of the easiest things to dehydrate as the blanching prep work has already been done for you before they were frozen. Just open the bag of frozen vegetables and empty it onto your dehydrator trays. If the veggies […]
Reusable Canning Lids Update
After canning with the Tattler Reusable Canning Lids last fall and more this year, check out my reusable canning lid update post on Utah Preppers today. I’ve got some fun product reviews still coming up, so stay tuned. Keep preparing! Angela *************************************************************** Subscribe to my email newsletter for updates and special deals. Please be sure […]
Using the Dehydrated Baby Food
Last fall I had a little too much fun making dehydrated baby food. For how to make your own, check the first post on carrots and this one where I made more from squash, pumpkin, and sweet potato. Well, baby brother is finally big enough to be eating solids, so we’ve been using some of […]
Dehydrated Carrots Update
Late last fall (about mid-November) I dehydrated some carrots. My dehydrating book said you could steam blanch them before dehydrating or you could dehydrate them raw. So I did some of each. If you want to read the whole post, go here: Dehydrating carrots. Now it’s been 10 months and the carrots have been stored […]
An Adventure in Making Syrup
Guest post by Alex Grovenstein. Originally posted on his blog, Back ‘er Down: In pursuit of a more simple life Note from Angela: Living in a place that Sugar Cane does not grow, I’ve never even attempted making pure cane syrup. This is fascinating and an absolutely priceless experience! Thanks for sharing, Alex! Photo: Casey Jones The […]
Dehydrated Baby Food: Sweet Potato, Pumpkin, Squash
Last week I had some leftover pumpkin from making a pumpkin roll and just happened to have sweet potatoes left over from Christmas dinner at the same time, so I pulled some frozen “squash” out of the freezer (why I labeled it with only “squash” and not the variety, I do not know) and let […]
Bottling or Home Canning Carrots
Home canning carrots is pretty easy. Really. I know I say that about most things, but believe me, I’d let you know if something wasn’t worth your time. Like the pickled hot peppers. Totally not worth my time, but hey, if you still want to bottle hot peppers, at least I warned you. But I […]