Every now and then a story comes up about sickness from and recalls of eggs because of salmonella contamination. Salmonella is a serious issue, but one that can be easily managed or prevented in the home flock.
Category Archives: Self-Sufficiency
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.
Preserving Onions by Caramelization
We received another large number of Walla Walla sweets this year and are busy trying to find new ways to process them. One method we learned from a friend from the Walla Walla Gleaners was to caramelize them in a crock pot and freeze them.