One of my favorite flavors has always been lemon. Not the overly sweet flavors of candy or lemonade, but a real lemon flavor from a whole lemon cooked into cake, pie, cookies and custards. The intense lemon flavor from that wonderful outer zest, the sweetness added from the sugar, it’s always been one of my
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Potatoes are one of the easiest and yet difficult thing to freeze dry and get perfect. Raw potatoes need to be rinsed with either salt water or water with citric acid, soaked and then blanched and still they may turn brown when they are processed through the freeze dryer. It’s so difficult for many to
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One of the easiest thing to start your canning journey is dry beans. Beans are perfect for a variety of recipes, as well as being high in protein and are extremely versatile. The best thing about canning beans is there’s no soaking, there’s no waiting to use, they’re ready and waiting on your shelf when
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One of the biggest obstacles for me in learning to can was dedicating part of my stove to a giant pot of boiling water to heat my jars. Gallons of water seems so wasted to just heat up the jars before filling them. While it’s very important to preheat the jars before filling them with
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Freeze drying candy seems like it would be very straight forward, put it in the machine and let it go. The problem is, sugar needs a different temperature to make it look like it’s from another planet. Freeze dryers have many presets, and for most foods they work beautifully to have perfectly preserved food once
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Always to start, scrub and since your lemons, we don’t want anything contaminating that flavor. Next we simply squeeze or juice our lemons. I used a nylon strainer to get the seeds out, and since I didn’t have a juicer I squeezed them by hand and used a wood spoon to press more juice out.
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Freeze drying whole lemons is an easy way to retain all of the lemon flavor and nutrients to use at a later date. I like to buy lemons when they’re in season, processing nearly 100 pounds per year for a variety of recipes. My favorite so far is lemonade, using the whole lemon it gives
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I’m so excited to share this recipe with you. I spent the weekend recently with my brother and his family. My niece and I prepared this soup together and I showed her how to easily multiply the small servings to make enough for canning the extras. The soup turned out amazing! I decided it was
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