Food preservation: Reviving a lost art (Part 1 of 2)

The following magazine clipping hung on the door of our kitchen cabinet at the apprentice house all season. The caption reads, “In 1939, Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal administration assigned photographer Dorothea Lange to travel around Oregon documenting agricultural communities at the height of the Great Depression.   Here we see Mrs. Botner of Nyssa Heights in [...]

Jammin’

My first time making jam! Made strawberry jam and canned it using a boiling water bath. It was fun and easy. I had ordered a “canning kit” from Amazon which included a jar lifter, lid lifter, and some other equipment to make the process easier. Ingredients: crushed strawberries (thawed from frozen), sugar, lemon juice, and [...]