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I use a candy thermometer to make apple jelly. It takes a lot of the guesswork out of the usual process of dripping jelly off of a wooden spoon, trying to tell when the jelly is ready to be poured into the jars to set. You just keep boiling, reducing the heat when the temperature starts to creep above 100C/212F (indicating…
I canned dilly beans today. While they came out fine, I ran into an issue that has come up before. The canning directions say to cut the beans slightly shorter than the jar height, and stack them vertically. But that is impossible to do without a great deal of waste, because your beans aren't going to be exactly 1X, 2X,…
I have a glut of apples roughly every other year. I'd like to find more uses for them. One idea I had is a pie filling that is made fresh and canned, or possibly frozen. Then in midwinter, I would open the pie filling can, dump it in a pie crust, and make fresh pie. Does anyone have a recipe they can share for a cannable…
