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Home Canning

Home canning resources, including the USDA Guide and a variety of recipes. USDA guides are in PDF format (Adobe Acrobat).

Preparing Jars for Canning and Boiling Water Processing

Prepare jars for home canning, having everything ready before you prepare the preserves, jam, jelly, or pickles.

Canning Times for Higher Altitudes

Guidelines for boiling water bath canning at higher altitudes.

Sauerkraut Recipe

Old-fashioned, homemade sauerkraut, with canning instructions, adapted from a Cooperative Extension recipe. A sauerkraut recipe with canning instructions and processing times.

Tomato Ketchup Recipe - Recipe for Ketchup With Tomatoes

Tomato ketchup recipe, made with tomatoes, vinegar, spices, and other ingredients.

The Peas & Corn Co.

Some wonderful hard-to-find items. A bean and pea sheller, corn creamer, cabbage cutter, onion cutter and many more items. Also a great selection of food items, including syrups and cornmeal.

BRGS Canning Recipes

Relish, jam, marmalade, and a peach butter from BRGS Kitchen.

Home Canning Online

Recipes, canning basics and a newsletter. From Alltrista Consumer Products Company (Ball).

Jam and Jelly Basics

Ingredients, methods, safety, and some recipes. From the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, University of Missouri-Columbia.

Preserving Foods

A huge database of foods, recipes, terms, troubleshooting, and help, organized by keyword.

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