Today was cooler so I made an apple pie

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Watching our orchard apples ripening, I got so hungry for an apple pie that I decided to take a few minutes and make one. None of ours were ripe yet so I grabbed five...

Q and A: planting early trees and saving tomato seeds

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Planting early trees I was excited to get the e-mail that my new Apple Trees will be shipping this week until I realized that there is no way all of our snow will be gone...

Q and A: using a fermenting crock for meat and peeling Hopi Pale Gray...

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Using fermenting crock for meat My husband would like to cure some meat in my German fermenting crock. Will my crock be safe to use again for cabbage? It is glazed on the inside. Jean Ann...

Q and A: Canning beans and canning peanut butter

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Canning beans Can I can beans not using any salt? Ann Hazelett Litchfield Park, Arizona Definitely. The salt is only a flavor enhancer; it does nothing to preserve the vegetables or canned meats. -- Jackie Making peanut butter Have you...