Preserve Your Garden Bounty: 16 recipes to Inspire you (Canning, Fermenting & More)!
The best way to get the most out of your garden (or farmers market) is to preserve some of that delicious food so that you can enjoy it year round!
The list of tried and true favourite recipes from our homestead keeps growing and I really enjoyed gathering them all to share in one place. There's something for everyone here with recipes for: jams, jellies, conserves, wine, vinegars and vegetables.
We love preserving our own food because we can control all of the ingredients that go into these products. We also like using recipes that focus on great flavours and foodie enjoyment!
If you haven't canned before, the first post will give you the basics on what you should know. It's really easy to learn and most people find themselves hooked once they've done it a few times!
Getting Started
Water Bath & Pressure Canning Explained
Canning is simply a form of preservation that involves heating, sterilizing and sealing your food into jars. It is one of the easiest food preservation methods to learn. We preserve about 1000 jars each year and there's nothing better than walking into the pantry and grabbing a jar of food, fully knowing the quality and origin of the ingredients inside. learn more here
Vegetable Recipes
Delicious Homemade Dilly Beans
Dilly beans are a popular pantry staple around here. A few jars are also inevitably smuggled home by guests so we make a lot of dilly beans!These beans are tangy and crisp. You can make them spicy or extra dilly - or both! Serve them as a side with sandwiches and hamburgers or chop them up and add them to salads or wraps for a crispy zing. These beans cost around $4.99 for 500ml at the store. It's well worth planting some of your own beans this spring so that you can indulge to your hearts content in this easy and satisfying recipe. Find the recipe here!
Raw Packed Carrots
The secret to canning delicious carrots is simple: fresh, firm produce and using the raw packed method of canning. Get the recipe here!
Pickled Jerusalem Artichokes
This recipe is for Pickled Jerusalem Artichokes. It creates a sort of bread and butter pickle flavour that you can enjoy with roast pork, ham and sandwiches. This recipe is for a large batch but you can safely reduce the recipe to meet your own needs. Find the recipe here!
Fresh Horseradish Sauce
Fresh horseradish sauce is easy to make and the flavours are far superior to anything you can purchase in the store. If you grow horseradish, early spring is a perfect time to dig some up and make sauce! If you don't grow any you'll often find it in the produce section of the grocery store near the garlic. It's usually labelled "horseradish root". Find the recipe here!
Jams, Jellies & Conserves
Perfect Strawberry Jam
This recipe for strawberry jam is bursting with bright, fresh flavours. It captures the essence of juicy red summertime fruit and stores it up for future enjoyment. Find the recipe here!
Flower Jelly
Flower Jelly is a lovely way to celebrate the arrival each season. This easy to make jelly uses edible flowers to capture the essence of flowers and bottles it up for enjoyment through the year. What could be better? Learn how to make it here!
Apple Fig Chutney
This Apple & fig chutney is one of my favourite preserves. It's pretty popular with family and friends as well. It's jam packed with dried fruits, and seasoned with warm spices. At first glance, the long ingredient list might make this chutney seem complicated but believe me, it's super easy to make and well worth the effort. Get the recipe here!
How To Make Your Own Apple Pectin For Jams & Jellies
Pectin is a naturally gelatinous substance found in most fruits. The highest concentrations of it can be found in in the skins and cores of fruit with apples and citrus fruits being two of the most reliable sources. Find the recipe here!
Rose Petal Simple Syrup (Recipe)
This concentrate is ideal for making pitchers of fruity lemonade. You can drizzle this rose petal syrup over ice cream or yoghurt with a few shavings of chocolate for a simple yet sensational dessert. It also makes a wonderful flavouring for cocktails and sodas. Find the recipe here!
How To Make Beautiful Homemade Extracts (It's Easy!)
Easy and Awesome! Homemade extracts are an excellent way to add a splash of flavour to recipes both savoury and sweet. Find the recipe here!
Vinegars
Healing Fire Cider Tonic
Fire cider is a spicy, raw apple cider vinegar, herbal tonic. The slow process in which you make it extracts the medicinal qualities of the ingredients creating a potent herbal vinegar. Fire cider helps to boost your immune system. It can be taken to ward off a colds or other respiratory infections. Learn how to make it here!
Raw Apple Cider Vinegar
Raw apple cider vinegar is one of nature’s miracle foods. In addition to it's many culinary uses, there are also countless health and skincare benefits. ACV is often used for things like: heartburn, digestive issues, flu prevention, inflammation, regulate pH balance, ease nausea, detoxes and the list just goes on and on. Find the recipe here!
Raspberry Vinegar
Why not make your own brightly flavoured raspberry vinegar? It's really easy and it tastes far better than the store bought varieties. You can use fresh or frozen berries making this a handy recipe for the winter months. Get the recipe here!
Boozie Recipes
Carrot Wine Recipe
This recipe makes a semi-dry white wine with a twist. It really does not taste like carrot. One word of warning: Root vegetable wines do tend to turn out stronger than fruit wines. Find the recipe here: Carrot Wine Recipe.
How To Make Rose Hip Wine
At the Walkerland homestead we have a passion for creating unique recipes. One of my favourite culinary ingredients to work with is the rose.I've shared how to Dry Rose Hips and today I wanted to share a recipe for making Rose Hip Wine. We've just recently enjoyed a bottle (a little young still) and it was quite delightful: dry, mildly fruity with a vanilla undertone. For those of you that worry about making things that taste "unpleasantly floral" don't worry! No one would ever guess this wine came from a rose bush. Get the recipe here!
Rumtopf (Rum Pot)
Rumtopf quite literally means rum pot. It is a traditional German method of preserving fruits of summer with sugar and strong rum. It is traditionally eaten around Christmas but if properly stored it keeps indefinitely. Find the recipe here
Feel free to share a link in the comments to your favourite preserving recipe that you've shared on steemit! I love trying new recipes and ideas! :) You'll find even more recipes on my website: walkerland.ca
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I've got my lemon balm and mint extracts going after reading your post a while back. :) Looking forward to seeing how they turn out!
oh how wonderful!! This makes me so happy!
What a wonderful compilation of fabulous recipes! I'm going to bookmark it on #busy to come back to. That Apple and fig one looks divine!! And the rumkopt... 😉💙
I love the chutney - It goes so well with cheese (my favourite food of all time). I am going to have to check out busy - I have heard mention a few times now but have no idea what it is!
It's such another interface for Steemit... you log on via steemconnect and off you go. I flip between busy and steemit for different reasons.. but Busy has a notification alert and a bookmarks function, plus you can save your drafts which is awesome as sometimes I have an idea out and no time to write so I throw in a photo and title and come back to it later.
oh, thank you so much for filling me in. I'll have to check it out. :)
Oh, I'm so disappointed that I flat out forgot you had posted a strawberry jam recipe! Especially one that doesn't use loads of sugar and boils the berries to death, because I like chunky jam. My jam making attempt last week didn't turn out too great, so I've just got to try yours :)
Sorry your jam didn't turn out as you wanted it to! I am sure it was still usable right?
I love the large fruit pieces. I swear the flavours are like fresh strawberry. Funny enough ...my husband has decided he likes his jam that spreads nice and smooth so I have to figure out an alternative way to do this while keeping that bright flavour.
Oh I love having all of these in one place! Brilliant! Your recipes are so well put together and I love that they use ingredients found right on the homestead. Thank you so much for putting these together for us!
I though being as most of these recipes were written out of season (when I have more time) that it might be useful to share them again now that the canning season is gearing up! I'm glad you liked it.
I was looking for one of my recipes and could not find it using the search function which is what provoked me to compile this list. I must not be tagging or using keywords properly. A lot of posts just don't pop up even when I use the whole title.