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#HollerHatWednesday: When is she going to finish?
Never before have I taken time after the spring workshop to get away from the internet, from people, and from modern life. And it did just what I said it would do – allowed me to take the time to process. Change is coming. Change is always coming, but this year, we have taken a special path and I want to share one lesson with you today.
Saturday, June 27, 2020 at 2pm CENTRAL time
Introduction to Canning – Pickles
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Have you been wanting to learn canning in a hands-on way but hesitant to start? Join me Saturday, June 27 for the first in a series on webinars focused on the basics of water bath canning be starting with the safest thing you can store in jars: Pickles.
Covered in this webinar:
- Water bath basics
- Equipment need to have
- Equipment nice to have
- Cold packing
- Quick Pickles Recipe
- Difference between high acid and low acid foods in canning
- Trusted sources for canning recipes and information
- Canning safety
There really is not much to fear about home canning if you learn the basics. Many foods are quite safe to process for yourself because if they go bad, you can see and smell it. But, I hesitated to start putting things in jars years ago after my grandparents showed me because it was scary. What if I did something wrong? 15 years later, I preserve much of what we eat at the Holler Homestead and continue to learn about canning and food preservation every month. All it took was pickles – the safest thing you can process!
This webinar will likely run over an hour and I will take questions as we go through the process.
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