Some of you may be wondering why you haven’t been hearing from me. I’ve sent very few emails and made even fewer calls. Well, it’s been busy. August begins the harvest. The pickling cucumbers have been prolific and then there were the black berries to deal with. Besides the various ways previously described of making […]
Fruit Leather
Well, I guess it is harvest time. In the past two weeks I have stored up a few loads of dried apples, a couple ice cube trays of basil, keep adding pickling cucumbers to my refrigerator dill pickles, made a couple of apples pies, canned nine pints of sweet lime pickle chips and did a […]
Cucumbers a Plenty
My cucumbers are growing splendidly. Not the pickling kind of course. The regular eating kind are going gang busters. I decided to try a refrigerator bread and butter pickle. I wasn’t sure that regular cucumbers would be good as pickles. Not wanting to waste time canning something that wouldn’t turn out I went with the […]
Dried Apples
One of our apple trees is called an Early Transparent. That is the only apple tree I’ve been able to identify so far. I have a list the previous owners gave me. It just doesn’t specify which tree is which apple. How did I know that this one was the Early Transparent? An avid lover […]