Q and A: canning cheese and making cornmeal from popcorn

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Canning cheese I just canned cheese for the first time. I did mozzarella and colby. The mozzarella turned brownish orange and the colby turned a lighter orange than normal. They almost look the same. Did...

Q and A: water loss in jars and off-grid dehydrating

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Water loss in jars This is my first year of pressure canning, ever, and I have a question regarding water loss from the canning jars. When I pressure canned green beans the water loss was...

Q and A: canning bacon and sausage and storing banana squash

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Canning bacon and sausage and storing banana squash I tried canning bacon and sausage for the first time a few weeks ago, both in half pint jars. The bacon did well, pint jars would have...

A stormy day

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Today was a real stormy day. You name it; we had lots of rain, 50 mph winds with higher gusts, thunder and lightening. Needless to say I didn't get anything much...

Boy did we get clobbered by snow!

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You know that storm that was heading for us?  Well it got here.  And how!  Saturday night it started.  Then by Sunday morning, we had a foot and the snow was still...