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Home Canning Fruit & Vegetables: Processing Times
Recommended canning methods with recommended processing times for pint jars and quart jars.

Freezing Green Beans
Freezing is the easiest way to preserve fresh summer green beans to enjoy all year long. For the highest quality and nutrition, they should be frozen at the peak of freshness.... as soon after harvesting as possible.

Successful Home Canning
An easy to follow guide with the basics you need to know for successful home cannning. If you never tried home canning because you think it´s just too complicated, I hope this will encourage you to give it a try.

An Important Message for Homemade Jam & Jelly Makers
Paraffin or wax seals don´t prevent mold growth and are no longer recommended for sealing jams and jellies.

Freezing Vegetables
Freezing is an excellent way to store and preserve home-grown vegetables or farm-fresh vegetables bought at low late summer prices.

Homemade Applesauce
Applesauce can be made in large quantities and canned using the boiling water bath canning method.

Vegetable Freezing Chart
Most fresh vegetables must be "blanched" before they are frozen. Blanching is a two-step process. Step one is immersing the vegetables in boiling water for a time determined by the kind and size of vegetable. In step two, the boiled vegetables are cooled as quickly as possible by immersing them in cold water. This chart list blanching times.