{"id":2493,"date":"2012-08-19T03:00:15","date_gmt":"2012-08-19T07:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=2493"},"modified":"2012-08-19T03:00:15","modified_gmt":"2012-08-19T07:00:15","slug":"q-and-a-measurements-for-herbs-and-spices-and-tarragon-vinegar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2012\/08\/19\/q-and-a-measurements-for-herbs-and-spices-and-tarragon-vinegar\/","title":{"rendered":"Q and A: measurements for herbs and spices, and tarragon vinegar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Measurements for herbs and spices<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>First off, I want to tell you how much my wife and I enjoy your column, articles, and your books. We&#8217;ve used many of your ideas with great success.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>My question is this: In your &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/store\/files\/jc01.html\">Growing and Canning Your Own Food<\/a>&#8221; recipes, are the herb\/spice measurements (such as in Tomato Sauce) for dried or for fresh herbs\/spices?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Curtis Buergin<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Spring Mills, Pennsylvania<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Thank you for your kind words. The recipes for herbs\/spices in the canning book are for dried spices because many folks don&#8217;t have fresh. You can certainly substitute fresh, but you&#8217;ll want to add more to make up for the dehydration. &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tarragon vinegar<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>I am wondering if you have a &#8220;recipe&#8221; for tarragon vinegar, if so would you please share and also let us know what the shelf life would be for something like that. I&#8217;ve seen several recipes on the Internet but it&#8217;s hard to find a reliable source.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Kara Slonecker<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Plain City, Ohio<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When I make tarragon vinegar, I simply fill a sterilized glass bottle (or canning jar) with white vinegar and put a few springs of tarragon in it, covering completely with vinegar. I just keep this in the fridge and use as I want. I replace the vinegar used so the tarragon doesn&#8217;t stay out of the vinegar. This lasts for months and months this way. When the tarragon gets &#8220;used up&#8221; looking, I simply remove it and continue using the vinegar until gone then repeat with fresh tarragon. Not really a recipe but simplicity is sometimes best. &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Measurements for herbs and spices First off, I want to tell you how much my wife and I enjoy your column, articles, and your books. We&#8217;ve used many of your ideas with great success. My question is this: In your &#8220;Growing and Canning Your Own Food&#8221; recipes, are the herb\/spice measurements (such as in Tomato [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}