Easy Tomato Paste Recipe Instead of buying tomato paste, you can make your own thick paste from tomato purée. We have also taking the pulp from plum tomatoes and it’s better than store bought tomato paste, made with just a few ingredients (like olive oil, onions, basil, garlic and fresh tomatoes). This is a tomato […]
Canning Apples for Baking
Canning Apples To Use Later When you find a good deal on apples or may your apples are ready for picking, you are going to have a LOT of apples all at once and may feel overwhelmed. Have you considered canning apples? If you do this, this is a game changer in being able to […]
Canning Boozy Cherries With Alcohol
Canning Boozy Cherries If you make a glaze for ham, you will want these spiked cherries with alcohol to have more flavor, you’ll want to can this, to use for the holidays and use some for desserts. And make this in advance (and date it), because flavor infusion takes 4 weeks. These would make great […]
Best Homemade Cherry Chocolate Jam
Homemade Chocolate Cherry Jam Love chocolate dipped cherries or cherry ice cream with chocolate chunks? This cherry chocolate jam is a game changer. We recently found this recipe in our Ball Canning Book and had to make it. You may be scratching your head like we were. Can you really put chocolate in jam? How […]
Homemade Sweet Cherry Jam Recipe
Enjoy Cherry Season Longer With This Sweet Cherry Jam Recipe In the jam line up, cherry jam is number 2 in our favorites (closely behind strawberry). We are fortunate to live in Michigan, where cherries are grown in Northern Michigan. You can find cherries in your local store (like we did for this recipe) to […]
Making Delectable Strawberry Jam
Homemade Strawberry Jam We make a lot of homemade jam in our house, but strawberry is the favorite in our house. We make strawberry jam about 2 times a year. If you have fresh strawberries, you are going to want to make your own jam too. You could also use frozen strawberries, just thaw first. […]
Canning Apple Pie Jam
Small Batch Canning Apple Pie Jam In Michigan, there are a lot of apples in the fall. Some of the orchards have apples up until the beginning of the year. That allows us to can so many different apple recipes, including apple pie jam. Please note that this recipe makes three half pints. I wanted […]
Can Homemade Applesauce With Cinnamon
Making Applesauce with Cinnamon We have canned our own applesauce for several years. Where we live, there are many apple trees and we also have a few on our little farm. We have shared a recipe for chunky applesauce and also this recipe for homemade applesauce. Both recipes start out the same, it’s what you […]
Canning Apple Maple Jam
Homemade Apple Maple Jam Delicious combination of apples and maple syrup make up this apple maple jam. This would be great to serve at breakfast, but there are so many ways you can use this. Top your ice cream, add in puff pastry desserts, add into muffins or serve on toast and pancakes. When we […]
Canning Homemade Chunky Applesauce
Easy Homemade Chunky Applesauce Love apples and want to enjoy them year round? You can make a delicious chunky applesauce and control how much sugar you add (or don’t) into the recipe. We’ve added cinnamon as well (optional also). Making applesauce is similar to making apple butter. Apple butter is smoother and requires more sugar. […]
Small Batch Canning Blackberry Jam Recipe
Love blackberries? You will enjoy this blackberry jam recipe. It’s a small batch, meaning it makes half the jars of a normal recipe, allowing you to make a variety of other jam recipes to fill your pantry. We also make a pectin free blackberry jam. Can I Use Whole Fruit to Make Blackberry Jam? You […]
