The secret to learning any skill, whether it is knitting, sewing, making furniture, or canning, is to start small. I was canning plain fruit and making simple freezer jam long before I felt brave enough to attempt jam in canning jars. This is only my ... Read More
7 Delicious Things To Do With Cherries
When 30 pounds of fresh cherries from Northwest Cherry Growers arrive at your doorstep, it's hard not to begin eating them one cherry, one pound at a time. Juicy and perfectly ripe, these cherries were welcomed by my family and soon we were ... Read More
Survival Mom DIY: Make Pectin From Apple Peels
If you make a lot of jam at your house, you probably go through a lot of pectin, whether it come as a powder in a little box or in a mylar pouch as a liquid. But do you know what pectin is or where it comes from? I confess I never thought about it ... Read More
Build your Food Storage from Scratch: Canning Bing Cherries
Bing cherries. Everyone in the family LOVES them and they are so very simple to can up! My family eats them faster than I can put them up, and cherry season doesn't last long, so I have to be quick! Here are my step-by-step instructions for canning ... Read More
