101 Uses for Jams and Jellies - Harvest Forum. Here's a couple of recipes to use excess marmalade: Dreamy Orange Cheesecake Dip From the Cooking Forum (and I forgot to record who posted it) 1 8 oz. pkg reduced fat cream cheese-softened 1/2 cup orange marmalade 1/2 teaspoon vanilla Combine cheese, marmalade and vanilla in a small bowl. Mix well. Serve with fruit. We used strawberries, cherries and peach slices, and they all worked well with the dip!
You can prepare dip ahead of time. Orange Marmalade Bread Again, from the Cooking Forum (and slap me for not recording who posted it) 3 cups sifted all-purpose flour 1 tablespoon baking powder 1 teaspoon salt 1/4 teaspoon baking soda 1 jar (16 ounces) orange marmalade (1 1/2 cups) 1 egg, beaten 3/4 cup orange juice 1/4 cup salad oil 1 cup chopped walnuts Sift together flour, baking powder, salt, and soda. Turn batter into a greased 9x5x3-inch loaf pan. Transfer from loaf pan to a baking sheet. My notes: I added some vanilla just because I love vanilla. How to Make Blueberry Butter - Easily! With Step-by-step Photos, Ingredients, Recipe and Costs. How to Make Homemade Blueberry Butter - Easily! With Step-by-step Photos, Recipe, Directions, Ingredients and Costs This month's notes: April 2014: Spring is just around the corner. Strawberries are here in Florida, Texas and California, next in late March and April for much of the South, then in May for most of the country and June in cooler northern areas.
See how easy it is to make strawberry jam or strawberry-rhubarb jam! Organic farms are identified in green! Subscribe to our: Email alerts; Follow us on Twitter Add this page to your favorites! Click here for a PDF print version is coming soon! Making and canning your own blueberry butter is so easy. For more information about blueberries, see Blueberry Picking Tips For jams (strawberry, blackberry, peach, raspberry, etc.)
Ingredients Blueberries - 5 pints (which is: 10 cups, or 2.25 liters, about 3.5 lbs, almost 1.75 kg) preferably fresh, but frozen (without syrup works, too) Lemon juice - either fresh squeezed or bottled. 1/4 cup. Canning Your Own Homemade Convenience Foods. Canning Your Own Homemade Convenience Foods Crystal Miller You have finally gotten to the point where most of your meals are cooked from scratch. You are seeing the savings in your grocery budget and are so pleased to be able to feed your family wholesome health building foods. But, it would be so nice to once in awhile be able to make a fast and easy meal without compromising health and without busting the budget. What is the answer to this dilemma??
Canning up your own good quality foods so they are sitting on the shelf ready to eat! You can also freeze your own foods, however freezing requires that you defrost the food first and that is one extra step that makes it not quite as convenient as it could be. The first thing you will have to have is a pressure canner. The next thing you will need is a basic knowledge of how to can. You will need basic supplies like canning jars, rings, new lids and a few utensils like a jar lifter, canning funnel, and a lid wand are the basics. How to Can Soups. Fruit Butters. Surplus fruits may be preserved by making fruit butters. The only equipment necessary is a good preserving kettle. Various fruit butters recommended are apple butter with cider, apple butter without cider, apple butter with grape juice, apple butter with lemons, pear butter. peach butter, plum butter, and Garfield butter made with plums and peaches.
With the exception at a good preserving kettle very little equipment is needed for the preparation of such butters. Apple Butter: There is no better way to use good apples than to make them into butter. The peeled and sliced apples may be cooked in the boiled cider, or they may be first made into apple sauce, which is then cooked in cider. In other words, 2 gallons of sweet cider should be boiled down to 1 gallon, and 2 gallons of the prepared apples should be added to it, either uncooked or as apple sauce.
If sugar is used, it should be added after the cooking is about two-thirds done. Apple Butter Without Cider: Pear Butter: Peach Butter: Blueberry Syrup.