Q and A: Canning butter and growing basil

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Canning butter I canned some butter over this weekend following the directions in your canning book. You say to simmer the butter to evaporate the buttermilk, left over buttermilk will make it taste bad. You...

Our beautiful fall weather continues

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And with the warm weather, we're getting a lot done. Yep, we should have had it done earlier, but it's nasty to work in rainy, cold weather. So while the sun is out, we're...

Q and A: jar sizes in canner and harvesting asparagus

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Jar sizes in canner I have a question concerning jars. Today I was putting up potatoes in qt. wide mouth jars. Ran short by one jar and used a regular size mouth jar in with...

Q and A: refrigerator pickles and slow germinating carrots

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Refrigerator pickles Here is a recipe I really like for Refrigerator Pickles. Can I put these in a water bath or canner to preserve? Or does that change the way they taste? 6-7 sliced cucumbers 1 med....