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My husband—a native New Englander—insists that the time to eat ice cream is winter, not summer. So, now that there’s a chill in the air, he’s craving frozen treats. Since this is an excuse to pull out yet another gadget from the pantry, I am happy to oblige. Sorbets are basically a frozen purée of fruit [...] After eight months of blogging, Doris and Jilly have outgrown their original pasture over at WordPress.com. Last night we switched over to a new host that will give us more flexibility and the ability to run ads, the better to keep us in canning equipment. Stay tuned—and bear with us—as we tinker with the new [...] Normally, I am a fan of the hot-pack approach to canning fruit, as it helps you fit more fruit into each jar. A recipe in last month’s New York Times, however, convinced me that it’s silly to poach pears separately, since a water-bath canning process will effectively poach the pears for you. I found their [...] Should you be so lucky as to still have access to peaches, and should you decide to can some, may I recommend a) that you drown them in honey and b) that you can the leftover juice/syrup/nectar as a base for delicious cocktails for sometime in the future? Peaches in Honey (for canning) Straight out of the [...] It’s not too late for raspberries! Cherries came and went long ago, but if you happened to freeze some, you can still make a fabulous, sweet-tart jam that tastes like summer. The raspberries melt into a luscious sauce studded with the cherries. It’s by far my favorite jam—the kind you hate to open because the [...] Today’s the Big Day. This afternoon, Jilly’s new restaurant, The Farmer’s Daughter, is throwing open the doors for the Heritage Days celebration in Princeton, Indiana. The Web site isn’t quite up yet, but if you’re on Facebook you can check out the latest photos—and become a fan, of course. Opening a restaurant sourced with local [...] Harvest season is winding down—within a month or so we’ll be posting on what we did with all that food we canned, instead of how to can it. Meanwhile, it’s our last chance to squirrel away some seeds for next year. This is my first time attempting to save seeds, so I’m winging it. Here’s [...] Tomorrow we’ll return to our regularly scheduled program of guerilla food-preservation strategies. Before we do, though—and at the risk of firmly sticking my foot in my mouth—I want to take a moment to talk a bit about gluten-free foods. Lately I’ve noticed a spike in gluten-free related search terms. Increasing numbers of readers are arriving [...] |
  
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