All articles in category: "Culturing & Fermenting,Preserving"

• Bottling the Cider, Finally

  Nov 7th 2010

  By: Allison

  1 comment

  We’ll, were finally bottling the cider.  We started it just over a year ago–right around Halloween of 2009. It’s been fermenting in the basement in a five gallon carboy, and based on taste and lack of any obvious fermentation action, it’s been ready to bottle and drink since probably May or June (or earlier, depending […]

  Culturing & Fermenting, Preserving

  Apple, bottling, Culturing & Fermenting, Hard Cider, Preserving

• Apple-Maple Butter

  Oct 13th 2010

  By: Allison

  2 comments

  I’ve been working on more can-able recipes using maple, and since we’re in the midst of fall, and it’s apple season, a recipe with apples seems in order.  In this recipe, instead of using maple syrup, I use pure maple sugar.  Here it is–enjoy! Apple-Maple Butter Makes approximately 12 half-pints To do ahead of time: […]

  Canning, In the Kitchen with Kids, Preserving, Recipes & Methods

  Apple, Apple Maple Butter, Boiling water bath canning, Canning, In the Kitchen with Kids, Maple Sugar, Preserving, Recipes & Methods

• Cider-making at Hope Orchards

  Oct 11th 2010

  By: Allison

  1 comment

  Remember our trip to Hope Orchards the other day to buy pears?  Well, one really fun thing going on while we were there that I didn’t mention in my last post is that they were pressing apple cider while we were there!   The small main building at the orchard houses both a compact retail […]

  Local Food Excursions, Local Food Excursions w/ Kids

  Apple, apple cider, Hope Orchards, Local Food Excursions, local food excursions with kids, Pressing Cider

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  I’m Allison Carroll Duffy, and food preservation is my thing.  I am trained as a Master Food Preserver, and I’ve been preserving food for over 20 years. Canning, dehydrating, freezing, fermenting, root-cellaring…I do all of it (with help from my husband and two teenage sons whenever I can get it:-)), to put up the produce from our large homestead garden.

   

  I also love sharing my food preservation knowledge with others! I teach canning and preserving classes and workshops, I write about food preservation (the new edition of my book Preserving with Pomona’s Pectin was published in 2021), and I also appear as an on-camera food preservation guest expert.

   

  In this space, I share about all things preserving…including how to safely preserve foods through canning and other methods,  lots of canning-safe recipes, as well as slices of my family’s life as we grow and preserve food on our homestead.  My goal is to help folks learn how to preserve delicious foods safely, and inspire people to do more canning and preserving in their own kitchens. I hope you’ll join me here….and thanks for stopping by!
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