Tag: canning

  • Difference between: water bath canning and pressure canning

    Disclosure: This is a longer post, because I’ve added some vitally important information on the safety of canning.

    Canning can be intimidating. If you screw it up, you could end up with botulism, a rare but deadly form of food poisoning. You even have to consider the altitude you’re at when canning.

    But, there are really specific, detailed, free guides available. It’s actually not that hard.

    The first thing – or one of the first things – you’ll want to consider when canning is which canning method you need to use, and there are only two to consider: water bath canning and pressure canning.

    Let’s see what the difference is.

    a small can filled with colorful, indistinguishable foods

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  • The Christmas lemons experiment

    This past Christmas I tried something new – I gave the female members of my family canned preserved lemons.

    My husband thought I was nuts, for not the first or last time.

    “I was really concerned when you told me you were giving people lemons,” were his exact words.

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  • Difference between: gelatin and pectin

    Gelatin versus pectin: what is the difference between these two thickening agents?

    As always, let us start at the beginning, with their definitions. Be forewarned that they will not put you in the mood for eating.

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