People are often surprised to hear that you can make maraschino cherries at home. While it is a long process, it’s not a particularly involved or difficult one, and uses relatively few ingredients.
Category Archives: Canning
Tattler Reusable Canning Lids
This year is our first year trying Tattler reusable canning lids. They promise to be an almost indefinitely reusable lid that is also more corrosion resistant than the common metal lids. Having tried them a few times, we can speak to their functionality. If their claims about re-usability are true, we’re excited about their economic utility as …
Brandied Cherries
Since we find we don’t usually get through canned cherries, and since we found our brandied peaches to be a fantastic success, we decided to make brandied cherries.
Bread and Butter Pickled Onions
Bread and Butter pickle recipes often call for onions. We figured we’d try them without the cucumber.
Putting up Peaches
We received a box of peaches, many of which were bruised, had insect damage, or other blemishes. We decided to cut out the bad bits and make peach butter, reserving the few unblemished ones for making brandied peaches.