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I dehydrated excess potatoes for longer-term pantry storage. It’s easy, but there’s a trick to keeping them from turning black as they’re dehydrated.
Dehydrating Shredded Potatoes For Homemade Hash Browns
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Category Archives: Food Preserving
Preserving The Harvest: Pear Preserves Recipe
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When it’s pear season, I like to use them to make fresh pear preserves. It’s a favorite of RancherMan’s for sure!
Preserving The Bounty: Freezing Fresh Eggs
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Most people know that chickens slow down their egg production in the winter months. So I’m trying to preserve the more-than-we-can-use quantity of eggs I’m blessed with now for those leaner times.
I’ve written before about preserving the eggs from our pastured flock by making a large batch of breakfast burritos and freezing them. They make a quick grab-n-eat meal before church so your stomach isn’t rumbling so loudly the sermon can’t be heard!
But you can only eat so many breakfast burritos. So I began looking for other ways to preserve those precious eggs so that none would go to waste.
Preserving The Harvest: Pressure-Canning Corn
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I recently received quite a few ears of sweet corn but it was WAY more than we could eat fresh. I wanted to preserve it so none would be wasted.
Our freezer is already pretty full so I was only able to toss in a couple of the whole ears for freezing, and then I went to researching pressure-canning options.
I was able to can the corn in little time. And since I was using my reusable canning lids
I also created no waste.
The cobs went to the hog traps, the shucks went to the goats and the sweet corn goodness goes to us!
Easier Homemade Dill Pickles From Garden Cucumbers
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We love dill pickles but I struggle making my own brine. I’ve found the secret weapon – a SUPER EASY brine. Making homemade pickles has never been THIS easy! Check it out.
Preserving The Harvest: Dehydrate Jalapenos
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I’ve been using my solar oven pretty heavily this year and I’ve finally dehydrated all my excess garden tomatoes for the summer.
(again for those of you asking, I have a *Sun Oven
and I love it!)
I’ll use the dehydrated tomatoes in numerous ways. To make tomato paste for homemade pizza and to thicken my homemade blender salsa, among other ways.
This late into summer is usually so very hot and dry that the garden stops producing and I just try to keep the garden watered enough to struggle it along in hopes of getting some kind of tiny fall garden production.
This time of year 99% of my garden is out of production. But we do have one last veggie going strong – FIERY-RED JALAPENOS!
Solar Cooking: Dehydrating Garden Produce
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I love my solar oven and I use it often. I love that it takes no purchased energy to run. And most of all I love that it leaves all the cooking heat outside where it belongs.
Recently I began dehydrating overage veggies from my garden. I freeze them as well from time to time but dehydrating them looks pretty cool in my pantry. It also reduces the volume to store by quite a bit and it works well for use in wintertime Endless Soups – my favorite application.
I decided to try to use my electric dehydrator trays to dehydrate in my solar oven – BIG MISTAKE! Although I left the solar oven’s lid unlatched so it wouldn’t get too hot inside the oven, it apparently doesn’t take very much heat at all to do this:
Preserving The Harvest: Jujube Fruit
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I recently wrote about stumbling upon an overgrown orchard at an old homestead property we obtained. The extension agent and master naturalists identified the trees as Jujube, the fruit is also known as Japanese Dates.
I read that the fruit can be dehydrated and used in the place of raisins. This really appeals to me as I’d love to replace something I purchase with something I preserve myself.
So I experimented with several methods of preserving this sweet fruit.
