Our visit to the church farm netted us more apricots than we could eat before they went bad. We made strawberry-rhubarb-apricot pie, apricot-cherry bread, and apricot-cherry-rhubarb pie. We snacked on them, and made smoothies and marinade. Still, we had lots left.
We took some of the apricots and made frozen pied filling. When January comes, we’ll [...]
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Extra Apricots? Freeze Them, Dry Them!
And more cooking resources
For those not inclined to vegetarianism, Google Books has a multitude of cookbooks available, including Mrs. Hale’s New Cookbook (Philadelphia: Peterson & Brothers, 1857). Check out her recipe for dressing a lamb’s head. (Ick!)
The book is heavy on meat, but also includes churning and curing butter, making two types of cheeses, and cleaning tips for [...]
Preserving Plums: Prunes
Some friends gave us a whole box of plums, the variety used for cooking and drying. We ate quite a few of them, but there’s no way we could eat the whole box. So we did the obvious: we made prunes with a lot of them.
Like many other fruits, plums are easy to dry: just [...]
Tis the Season for Canning
As gardens begin to deluge us with fresh vegetables, we may wonder what to do with it all. Give it to the neighbors? Throw it out? Feed it to the chickens?
Don’t despair: one solution is to can foods in canning jars for later use. Most foods will last at least a year when canned; some [...]
Apple Harvest
Apple season is in full swing, now, and many of our neighbors have more than they can use or store. They’re more than happy for us to take what they can’t handle. So we’ve been cutting and slicing, freezing, drying, canning, and making pies. I’m sure we’ll get sick of apples in a week or [...]
Plethora of Peaches
I love summer fruit, especially peaches. But if you’ve eaten a locally-grown peach, you know it’s nearly impossible to find a good peach in the grocery store. Utah peaches are now in season, and we’ve been eating them up– fresh and in pies, by themselves and with apples and rhubarb. Here’s the dilemma: we can only [...]
The Fallen Fruit Bonanza
We’ve been picking up tree limbs and fallen fruit from all our neighbors to feed our goats. Fallen fruit can be a bonanza for us as well. Even though an apple is bruised, or has a blemish on one side, it’ll still make great applesauce or pie. Already, we’ve frozen three quart bags of applesauce for winter [...]
