Susiebella

*anything with dairy products... including milk, cream, butter, and cheese.

 

*pasta, rice, and noodles (including "rivels" and dumplings)

 

*eggs

 

*avocados

 

*oily stuff or oil

 

*breads for long-term storage

 

*thick purees of potatoes, sweet potatoes, squash, etc.

(make them uniform slices or chunks)

 

*soft summer squashes

[Why is canning summer squash or zucchini not recommended?

Recommendations for canning summer squashes, including zucchini, that appeared in former editions of So Easy to Preserve have been withdrawn due to uncertainty about the determination of processing times. Squashes are low-acid vegetables and require pressure canning for a known period of time that will destroy the bacteria that cause botulism. Documentation for the previous processing times cannot be found, and reports that are available do not support the old process. Slices or cubes of cooked summer squash will get quite soft and pack tightly into the jars. The amount of squash filled into a jar will affect the heating pattern in that jar. It is best to freeze or pickle summer squashes, but they may also be dried.]

<a href="http://www.uga.edu/nchfp/questions/FAQ_canning.html#24" target="_blank">http://www.uga.edu/nchfp/questions/FAQ_canning.html#24</a>

 

<a href="http://www.uwex.edu/ces/cty/outagamie/flp/documents/06foodcreativityIvory.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.uwex.edu/ces/cty/outagamie/flp/...tivityIvory.pdf</a>

 

<a href="http://extension.usu.edu/files/foodpubs/foodsaf7.pdf" target="_blank">http://extension.usu.edu/files/foodpubs/foodsaf7.pdf</a>

 

 

(More to come from others and me...)

 

Eggs can be pcikled and canned if you like pickled eggs there are several good recipes in my pickling book.

 

 

 

*anything with dairy products... including milk, cream, butter, and cheese.

 

*pasta, rice, and noodles (including "rivels" and dumplings)

 

*eggs

 

*avocados

 

*oily stuff or oil

 

*breads for long-term storage

 

*thick purees of potatoes, sweet potatoes, squash, etc.

(make them uniform slices or chunks)

 

*soft summer squashes

[Why is canning summer squash or zucchini not recommended?

Recommendations for canning summer squashes, including zucchini, that appeared in former editions of So Easy to Preserve have been withdrawn due to uncertainty about the determination of processing times. Squashes are low-acid vegetables and require pressure canning for a known period of time that will destroy the bacteria that cause botulism. Documentation for the previous processing times cannot be found, and reports that are available do not support the old process. Slices or cubes of cooked summer squash will get quite soft and pack tightly into the jars. The amount of squash filled into a jar will affect the heating pattern in that jar. It is best to freeze or pickle summer squashes, but they may also be dried.]

<a href="http://www.uga.edu/nchfp/questions/FAQ_canning.html#24" target="_blank">http://www.uga.edu/nchfp/questions/FAQ_canning.html#24</a>

 

<a href="http://www.uwex.edu/ces/cty/outagamie/flp/documents/06foodcreativityIvory.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.uwex.edu/ces/cty/outagamie/flp/...tivityIvory.pdf</a>

 

<a href="http://extension.usu.edu/files/foodpubs/foodsaf7.pdf" target="_blank">http://extension.usu.edu/files/foodpubs/foodsaf7.pdf</a>

 

 

(More to come from others and me...)

 

 

 

 

I have a bird dog named Brece. She's a french brittany. Before we go out into the forest I rub her down with cedar chips and she had never had a flea or a tick in her life. We have our dogs' yard surrounded in cedar logs and their dog house has cedar chips inside. Always when we take the dogs out to the woods we have chips on hand to renew from time to time. Hope it helps. We have three dogs so I understand the cost of all that flea & tick stuff that never works. So home remedy is for me!

I'm drying rose hips from my wild rugosa to make rose hip tea for winter. Rose hips are higher in vitamiin C than an orange. When they're dried completely I put them in my cuisinart and chop them but not too finely, then sieve them because the inside of the hip has little hairs (very unpalatable). The remaining is the stuff you make tea from in the usual way you do with loose tea leaves. I like to dry lemon balm to mix with it. If the bush produces enough by the time it's all said and done I'll make some rose hip jelly. Anything to help ward off colds.

I have an American cranberry bush as high as the house so after the first cold snap in October I'll be dehydrating some of them and making jelly. The ones way up high I'll leave for my feathered friends.

Well, we got past 200 posts in the first thread with this title, which tends to make threads drag, so here we go with "Part 2".

 

**Cat peeks over your shoulder towards the kitchen...**

 

Sooooo... what'cha dehydrating today???

 

 

 

 

 

Dehydrating link Part 1

My nephew, Jordan, in Afghanistan now. As well lets not forget those who gave the ultimate sacrifice so that we may remain a free nation under GOD.

Scrubbie Lady, you just reminded me of the onions I missed one fall when I dug them. They actually overwintered underground, and when I dug up the garden for spring planting, I was blessed by the nicest, sweetest onions you ever saw!

Here we can plant cold crops like cabbage and broccholi in the spring and harvest the broccholi by mid summer, then replant broccholi for a fall crop. Chard and spinach for a fall crop as well and we can usually get away with with harvesting into November unless the fickle finger of fate (snow) happens earlier than expected. I usually provide some protection for my greens but right now we are having a bumper crop yield of tomatoes, beans, summer squash and cukes. Keeps me busy and you what waht they saw about idle hands!