Herb vinegar is a great gift when you use a decorative bottle.
Brine pickles take approximately 6 weeks to make from start to finish.
Sweet, fresh-packed pickles can be made and put up in one day. The following recipe yields about 5 pints of sweet pickle spears or slices.
This recipe can be cut in half to make a smaller batch of pickled peppers as they ripen. Full recipe yields 8 pints.
This is a good recipe to use up all of the green tomatoes in the garden before frost. Yields 7 pints (that's almost a gallon, for those of you challenged in the standard measures).
Homemade vinegar will add a whole new taste to your salad dressings. After you make apple jelly from "How to Make Apple Jelly," you can use the remaining peelings and pulp to make vinegar. Fall...
July and August are good months to pick up apricots for jam. This recipe makes 5 pints.
Spearmint makes a wonderful jelly to use with meats or spread thinly on fancy finger sandwiches with soft goat cheese. This recipe yields 7 6-oz. jelly glasses.
Homemade mayonnaise is divine, and it's so easy, you won't settle for anything else after you try it. You can make mayonnaise in a blender, in a food processor, or by hand. This recipe yields...
A dry rub is a mix of several spices that's typically used as a seasoning for meat, fish or poultry. Making one yourself is easy, and the combinations of spices you can use are infinite.
If you like mushrooms, especially fully flavored wild mushrooms, try this dry seasoning. It can be easily made from the dried wild mushrooms now commonly available.
Commercial lemon-pepper seasoning, available in the spice section of most markets, is enormously popular as a seasoning for chicken and other foods. You can easily make it at home yourself, and...
It's probably never occurred to most people to make their own ketchup, but by doing so you can achieve a distinct and unique flavor. See Tips for ideas on customizing this recipe. Makes between 2...
Lots of people brag about their secret barbecue sauce recipe. If you don't have your own, start with this one. It's a simple mixture you can modify and experiment with until you've created your...
Many experts believe mustard-based barbecue sauces are more compatible with grilled food than tomato-based ones. This sauce is very easy to whisk together, and goes especially well with grilled...
Purplish-black, glistening blackberries make delicious jam for toast and scones. When fresh blackberries aren't available, use thawed frozen berries. Makes 7 c. or seven (8-fluid-oz.) jars.
Fresh apricots are in season for a relatively short time during the summer. In the United States, California grows around 95 percent of the apricots for the nation, with each variety boasting its...
Fresh peaches are delicious eaten on their own, sliced over cereals and ice cream or made into pies and cobblers. You can enjoy their sweet flavor year-round by making jam during the summer peach...
Raspberries are one of the seediest of berries but also one of the tastiest. Naturally occurring pectin in the berries generally assures a good set when making jam. Raspberry jam is delicious used...
Boysenberries are rich in flavor and make particularly tasty jams. Fresh boysenberries are a summertime treat, but frozen berries may be thawed and used like fresh berries during other times of...
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