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Several jars of homemade beet relish with horseradish are stacked on the right. There is a open jar of relisj on the left and two freshly cooked garden beets for decoration. Everything is sitting on a plaid kitchen towel.

Beet Relish with Horseradish Canning Recipe

Have you ever tried beet with horseradish relish? It’s an easy-to-make condiment that is both sweet and tangy, and the horseradish adds a delicious bite to the flavor. It’s amazing served with roast beef or ham, or add it to a small dish on a cheese board. I love it paired with plain rice. It’s…

Four jars of homemade saskatoon jelly or service berry jam. There are four jars of the homemade jam on a cutting board.

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Saskatoon Berry Jam Recipe with Pectin

This summer has been very wet and cool, resulting in an abundant crop of fresh berries of every sort. We walk through a small park near our house and inevitably return to pick saskatoon berries. We have an amazing 8 gallons of fresh berries, and we could have picked twice that much. It’s been amazing….

Canned pickled beets being served in a small white bowl. The white bowl is sitting on a bamboo chopping board with a checkers teacloth on the side. You can see two pint sized jars of the spicy pickled beet recipe in the background.

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Spiced Pickled Beets Canning Recipe

My Hubs loves anything that’s pickled, so this year he specifically grew fresh beets to make into spiced beet pickles. Actually, we both enjoy pickled beets, so they are a standard at our house. They are so handy to have on hand for snacking, to help stretch a meal, or to add some extra flavor…

Homemade chunky salsa sitting in a small white bowl , with a fresh jalapeno on the cutting board, a small bowl of tortilla chips, and a jar of freshly canned tomato salsa.

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Homemade Chunky Tomato Salsa Recipe for Canning

Preserve the amazing flavors of fresh tomatoes with this easy-to-follow Chunky Tomato Salsa recipe for Canning. Homemade salsa is worth purchasing market garden vegetables for, and if you grow garden tomatoes like we do, this salsa recipe is a fantastic way to preserve the bounty. Homemade salsa and a bag of tortilla chips are a…

Two jars of canned tomatoes sitting on a countertop with fresh whole tomatoes.

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Pressure Canning Tomatoes Recipe

There are two major types of canned tomatoes, canning tomatoes fresh and whole sometime called raw packing which is what I am about to show you, and stewed tomatoes which are cut and cooked before canning. I prefer to raw pack when canning tomatoes. Canning tomatoes does not take any special skills but it does…

A bottle filled with homemade rhubarb syrup recipe and a bowl of rhubarb syrup beside it.

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Rhubarb Simple Syrup

Looking for a delicious way to use up your rhubarb? Try making this easy rhubarb simple syrup! Perfect for cocktails and desserts.

A bowl full of bread and butter pickles surrounded by jars of homemade bread and butter pickles in cans.

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Bread and Butter Pickles Recipe Refrigerator or Canned

For certain recipes like this Bread and Butter Pickles Recipe, you typically see headings like Old Fashioned, Classic, or Grama used to make. I am unsure how to feel about that because this Grama is making and sharing old-fashioned bread and pickles I first made eons ago. This recipe is simple, classic, time-honored, and proven….

A table with a pretty blue tablecloth, homemade saskatoon sauce served on ice cream, and a large serving boat of saskatoon sauce.

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Saskatoon Berry Sauce

This saskatoon berry sauce recipe is small enough to make for a quick family treat, cook up the berry sauce in 20 minutes and drizzle over ice cream. Add a vanilla cookie and it becomes a quick and easy berry dessert fancy enough for company. Saskatoon sauce is one of the easiest berry sauce recipes…