Five ways to preserve your apple harvest

Five ways to preserve your apple harvest

Humans have been consuming apples since prehistoric times. The apples that were present during this time scarcely resembled the ones we consume today. I can imagine however that these would be a welcome treat to any prehistoric individual considering the widely varied diet of the time. From what I have seen through reading, the ways to preserve the apple harvest were much more limited. The typical ways over time to

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Dehydrating and powdering Sweet Potatoes~ Careful! these babies are sharp!

My most recent item to dehydrate is a sweet potato we received as part of our CSA share from Brads Produce.  This, I actually did not research ahead of time like I typically do simply because I was in a hurry to “git’r done” so I am writing about it to simply remind myself later “uhh how did I do this one?”.First, I baked it along with some other items

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A taste of Autumn

This is what happens when you have too many fresh apples on hand and you cannot store them by canning and you’ve already got more than enough dried as chips. Unusual fruit leather combinations. Today’s experiment? Vanilla Chai (decaf) with molasses and apples. This idea came to me simply because we’re running low on apple cider which I use in the crockpot as the apples are cooking down.  We add

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A few recipes

I’m going to keep this short and sweet.  I had a few extra tomatoes that I had already removed the skins off of, so these were going to a batch of tomato jam.I scoured around a bit on the internet and this one appealed to me most.Tomato JamYield: Varies depending on the kind of tomato used, pan width and the finished thickness* Ingredients 5 pounds tomatoes, finely chopped3 1/2 cups

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