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Tips for making and canning cherry jam with liquid pectin. Easy recipe for beginning canners. Tips for making and canning cherry jam with liquid pectin. Easy recipe for beginning canners.

It’s cherry season again, and time to start canning cherry jam! Cherry jam is very easy to make. This recipe uses liquid pectin. Cherry Jam Recipe Ingredients: 4 1/2 c. fully ripe cherries, pitted and finely chopped*7 c. sugar2 pouches liquid pectin *You can either remove the pits by hand or you can use a…

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How to make rose simple syrup. Easy recipe for canning rose syrup. How to make rose simple syrup. Easy recipe for canning rose syrup.

I love this time of year when the wild roses start blooming. I have tried a few recipes using these wonderfully fragrant rose petals. This year I decided to try making and canning rose simple syrup.   Note: You don’t have to can this recipe, you can make just a pint or two and put…

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No time for baking bread? Try these one hour dinner rolls and have homemade bread on the table in no time. No time for baking bread? Try these one hour dinner rolls and have homemade bread on the table in no time.

If you want to give baking a try and think it takes too long to make homemade bread, then give these one hour dinner rolls a try. They are every bit as good as any dinner roll recipe you will find, and they only take an hour to make!   One Hour Rolls Recipe Ingredients:…

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Canning pickled asparagus. Step-by-step beginning instructions for canning perfect pickled asparagus. No pressure canner needed! Canning pickled asparagus. Step-by-step beginning instructions for canning perfect pickled asparagus. No pressure canner needed!

Yay! It’s asparagus season again. We have asparagus fields not even 10 miles from where we live and I have never gone to a farm to buy fresh cut asparagus. Well, this year I did, and I am so glad that I did. Time to learn how to can pickled asparagus. Pickled asparagus is one…

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Brew your own kombucha at home! Easy kombucha recipe for beginners. Brew your own kombucha at home! Easy kombucha recipe for beginners.

I first tasted kombucha a couple of years ago. I was skeptical about it at first, but wanted to see what all the hype was about. I was surprised how sour it was, almost like drinking vinegar! But after I gave it a couple of tries, it started to grow on me. I decided to…

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