Food Preservation
In the past week or two, we've been experimenting with preserving some food. First, Papoo gave us ~3/4 of a bushel of pears and a grocery bag full of muscadine grapes - both grown at his house.
Also, Kati's mom gave us an old Ronco food dehydrator.
I sliced up some of the pears and dried them out in the dehydrator. They dried well, but they weren't really my thing.
Then, I picked up some Ball jars and we gave canning a try. I made grape jelly (which we go through a lot of due to all of Oliver's PB&J Waffle sandwiches). And we made Pear jam and Pear-sauce. We still had a great many pears left!
Then, we picked up half a bushel of Honey Crisp apples. We canned 10 pints of apples slices and currently have a batch of delicious smelling cinnamon apple sauce ready to be canned.
In the past week or two, we've been experimenting with preserving some food. First, Papoo gave us ~3/4 of a bushel of pears and a grocery bag full of muscadine grapes - both grown at his house.
Also, Kati's mom gave us an old Ronco food dehydrator.
I sliced up some of the pears and dried them out in the dehydrator. They dried well, but they weren't really my thing.
Then, I picked up some Ball jars and we gave canning a try. I made grape jelly (which we go through a lot of due to all of Oliver's PB&J Waffle sandwiches). And we made Pear jam and Pear-sauce. We still had a great many pears left!
Then, we picked up half a bushel of Honey Crisp apples. We canned 10 pints of apples slices and currently have a batch of delicious smelling cinnamon apple sauce ready to be canned.
