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Ask the Goats is a weekly series in which we attempt to answer your questions about growing, making, eating, and preserving food. Got a question for the goats? Drop us a line at dorisandjilly@gmail.com. Q. Hi. I am not new to canning. But something happened this year that has never happened before. [...] My grandmother used to make and sell the most astonishing hot pepper relish. This isn’t that recipe—some family secrets are meant to be kept—but it’s almost as good. It has a proven track record in winning over zucchini doubters, relish doubters, and hot pickle doubters. It’s also an excellent use for leftover, end-of-season yellow squash [...] Ask the Goats is a weekly feature in which we, the goats, attempt to answer your questions about growing, making, eating, and preserving food. Got a question? Drop us a line at dorisandjilly@gmail.com. Q: When you have a boiling-water bath recipe, how much do you adjust the processing time for different size jars? Most jam [...] With the gorgeous fall weather we’ve been having, shouldn’t the chutney get to go outside, too? Having simmered on the stove for more than two hours, I thought it deserved a moment of sunshine before being banished to a dark corner of the basement. Next time it sees the light of day it will be [...] Ask the Goats is a weekly feature in which we answer your questions about growing, making, preserving, and eating food. Got a question for us? Drop us a line at dorisandjilly@gmail.com. Q. I just purchased my first pressure cooker; a 6 quart. Can I also use this to can small batches of bounty instead [...] Has anyone else noticed the skyrocketing cost of pine nuts, when you can find them at all? The going rate in Philadelphia seems to be somewhere around $25/pound. I think I’m not the only one with this problem—I noticed that the pesto at my local “boutique” grocery is made from pecans, not pine nuts. Yet no [...] Ask the Goats is a weekly feature in which we answer your food-preservation questions. It usually appears on Mondays, but, being the day after Labor Day, we’re considering today Monday-ish. Send us your questions at dorisandjilly@gmail.com. Q. We have canned peaches and jam that have been in our attic for over 20 years. The seals are [...] |
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