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How to Can Blackberries and Other Berries with No Other Ingredient.
How to Can Blackberries and Other Berries with No Other Ingredient. This beautifully simple technique contains only one ingredient: blackberries. The result keeps all the flavor of the fresh fruit, although with a softer texture. You can also use this method with juneberries, blueberries, raspberries, wineberries, currants, and gooseberries. #01 Bring a pot of water…
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How to Can Peaches and Other Fruits with or Without Sugar.
How to Can Peaches and Other Fruits with or Without Sugar. Peaches are used in these instructions because they are the quintessential canning fruit. Not only do home-canned peaches look beautiful in the jars, but you can use them in everything from fruit salad to quick bread. But the canning method here applies to other…
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Best Refrigerator Practice and Where to Store What in Your Refrigerator.
Best Refrigerator Practice and Where to Store What in Your Refrigerator Unlike your freezer, which is most energy efficient when packed full of food, your refrigerator functions best when it is just moderately full. You want air to circulate easily between food items. Do not leave your refrigerator door open for more than 30 seconds…
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How To Can Fresh Tomatoes at Home Using Boiling Water Bath.
How To Can Tomatoes at Home Using Boiling Water Bath Tomatoes are one of the first foods many people try to can, partly because canning them is relatively easy. However, gone are the days when you could smash some raw tomatoes into a canning jar, process them in a boiling water bath for a while,…
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Two Ways to Freeze Fresh Ginger.
Two Ways to Freeze Fresh Ginger. Have you ever thrown out fresh ginger because you didn’t get to it before it started to shrivel up or mold? Never again! Here are two easy ways to preserve fresh ginger. #01 The simplest way is to cut the ginger rhizome into 1-inch chunks. Use the double-freeze method…
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Tips for Successful and Healthy Lacto-Fermentation
Tips for Successful and Healthy Lacto-Fermentation The hotter the environment, the more salt you need in your initial brine. In warm environments, the food can spoil before the beneficial bacteria have a chance to establish a good ferment. This is why it is easier to ferment foods in cool weather, and one of the reasons…
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How to Preserve Food Safely Using Lacto-Fermentation
How to Preserve Food Safely Using Lacto-Fermentation Lacto-fermentation is the process that turns cucumbers into classic deli dill pickles. It is what turns cabbage into sauerkraut, and it is the secret behind traditional Korean kimchi. It is one of the oldest forms of food preservation. Humanity has had thousands of years of experience with it.…
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Why Do You Need to Blanch (Treat in Boiling Water or Steam) Some Foods Before Freezing?
Why Do You Need to Blanch (Treat in Boiling Water or Steam) Some Foods Before Freezing? Have you ever stuck some springs of raw basil into a Ziplock bag and shoved it into your freezer? When you took it out weeks or months later, it thawed into a blackened, slimy mess, right? If you’d blanched…
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How to Make and Freeze Basil Oil (or Other Herbal Oil)?
How to Make and Freeze Basil Oil (or Other Herbal Oil)? This is a combination of two food preservation methods: preserving in fat and freezing. Basil isn’t the only herb this method works great with: You can use it with cilantro (coriander leaves) and any other tender leafy herb that doesn’t dry well. Bring a…
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The Best Way to Freeze Meat, Poultry, and Seafood.
The Best Way to Freeze Meat, Poultry, and Seafood. When you freeze meats, including poultry and seafood, the goal is to prevent exposing the food’s surface to air and moisture. It is possible to do this by tightly wrapping the meat in plastic wrap and then again in aluminum foil. You can vacuum seal the…
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HOW LONG CAN I KEEP FOOD IN THE FREEZER? (Baked Food, Grains, Dairy, Meat, Fruits, Leftovers, Mushrooms, Seafood, Poultry and Vegetables).
HOW LONG CAN I KEEP FOOD IN THE FREEZER? (Baked Food, Grains, Dairy, Meat, Fruits, Leftovers, Mushrooms, Seafood, Poultry and Vegetables). Here are the maximum lengths to store different foods in your freezer. Your food will still be safe to eat if frozen longer, but its nutritional value will decline and its quality will nose-dive.…
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How to Preserve Lemons that can last for at least 6 months
How to Preserve Lemons that can last for at least 6 months Preserved lemons are an essential ingredient in Moroccan tagines and other North African dishes. They make a lovely gift, especially if paired with a recipe. What do you need? Sea salt Table sugar or honey Organically grown lemons, quartered lengthwise Cloves cinnamon stick…
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Easy Way to Prepare Dandelion Wine at Home
Easy Way to Prepare Dandelion Wine at Home Dandelion wine has a mythical status in that almost everyone has heard of it, but very few people have ever tasted it. It’s not difficult to make, but it does require time to pick enough flowers for the recipe, and patience waiting for the wine to mature.…
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Special Considerations to Take When Preparing Poultry for Smoking or Cooking..
Special Considerations to Take When Preparing Poultry for Smoking or Cooking. There are several precautions and special considerations to take when preparing poultry for smoking. The following list itemizes some of the things you need to consider before lighting up the smoker. #01 Never defrost poultry at room temperature. Use the refrigerator to defrost your…
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How to Dry Cranberries in a Dehydrator or Oven for a Longer Storage Period.
How to Dry Cranberries in a Dehydrator or Oven for a Longer Storage Period. Cranberries are also called “craisins,” dried cranberries are a wonderful snack and great on salads, baked goods, cereal, or yogurt. Most commercially sold dried cranberries are sweetened. The instructions here include the sweetening step. You can skip sweetening your homemade craisins…
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How to Dry Mushrooms for Storage (Mushroom Powder).
How to Dry Mushrooms for Storage (Mushroom Powder) Drying is by far the best way to preserve most mushrooms. Mushrooms that dry well include supermarket button mushrooms, but also morels, maitake, shiitake, porcini, and other wild (or cultivated) edible mushrooms. Mushrooms are the exception to the rule that dehydrated foods are entirely different ingredients from…
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How to Home-Dry Tomatoes; For Longer Storage Period.
How to Home-Dry Tomatoes; For Longer Storage Period. Dried tomatoes are such a wonderful ingredient in their own right that it’s worth trying some just for the unique flavour. Home-dried tomatoes taste just as great as the ones you buy at the store but without the high cost. And tomatoes do not need to be…
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You are What You Ate; Beware the Unfamiliar Grain, Corn.
You are What You Ate; Beware the Unfamiliar Grain, Corn Most people can easily name the common grains such as rice, wheat, oats, barley, and rye, but forget that corn also belongs in that category, as they perceive corn to be a vegetable. Corn is a grain, and it has all the negative health impacts…
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Improving Your Wellbeing; The Dangers of Grains and Sugars
Improving Your Wellbeing; The Dangers of Grains and Sugars If you made no other adjustments to your diet but eliminating or vastly reducing grains and sugars it is likely your health would rapidly improve and within days you would start losing weight. Within weeks you would have a very noticeable improvement in both areas. Within…
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The Role of Vegetables in Disease Prevention.
The Role of Vegetables in Disease Prevention Apart from providing nutrition, vegetables provide protection against many diseases. They are used in the traditional system of medicine in several countries including India. For example, bitter gourd is used for treating diabetes; the ash gourd is useful for patients with weak nervous systems. The use of vegetables…
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