ST. PAUL -- Safe home canned vegetables require processing in a pressure canner. This is important to know if you are planning to home can green beans, peas, carrots or other low-acid vegetables this ...

Preserve the taste of summer by canning tomatoes. It’s harvest season for Iowa gardens and many of us are up to our elbows in tomatoes and peppers. If you’re finding yourself with enough produce to ...

IN spite of its modest size, this book contains a great deal of valuable information on bottling, canning, pulping, drying, and salting vegetables and fruit. In the first part of the book the author ...

Think boiling is the safest cooking method? Your vegetables might disagree. g. boiling) may be the most detrimental to nutrient content, whereas other cooking methods such as steaming or microwaving ...

Freezing fruits, vegetables and even herbs is a great way to preserve their freshness so that you can use them year-round even when they are not in season. With these proven methods for freezing, you ...

It could be argued that the world’s cuisines owe a lot to the long history of food preservation — the ingenious and unexpected ways to prolong the lifespan of food that have allowed humans not only to ...