This article if for people who have purchased Datil Pepper seeds from our store. To those with a green thumb, these peppers are very fun to raise from seed, you can buy some here. Thanks for your recent purchase of Datil Pepper seeds.
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From the category archives:
Canning and Preserving
Home Canning & Preserving
This is a simple salsa recipe that brings the flavor of the grill or broiler to the dish. I make this salsa each summer and even water bath can it to store for the winter. This is fabulous on scrambled eggs or in burritos.
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This is a very easy recipe for making strawberry (or blackberry) jam. Please refer to the instructions that come either in your canning equipment or visit Ball Jar’s website to learn more about proper canning.
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This easy to make apple sauce recipe takes minutes and tastes delicious.
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These curing ingredients are required to achieve the characteristic flavor, color and stability of cured meat. Nitrate and nitrite are converted to nitric oxide by microorganisms and combine with the meat pigment myoglobin to give the cured meat color. However, more importantly, nitrite provides protection against the growth of botulism-producing organisms, acts to retard rancidity and stabilizes the flavor of the cured meat.
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Just as you keep a copy of a good recipe, you should keep notes on the formulation and processing procedures of your favorite smoked and cooked sausage. Ingredients, times, temperatures and end results should be noted. This will help to make a better sausage the next time.
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Pressure canning is the only recommended method for
canning meat, poultry, seafood and vegetables. The
bacterium CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM in low-acid foods is
destroyed when they are processed at the correct time and
pressure in pressure canners.
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Overall Appearance
* Good proportion of solid to liquid.
* Full pack with proper headspace.
* Liquid just covering solid.
* Free of air bubbles.
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Canning – A method of preserving food in air-tight vacuum-sealed containers and heat processing sufficiently to enable storing the food at normal-home temperatures.
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This early Mason jar is decorated with “THE GEM” in one line embossed on one side of the upper body. The jar has a glass lid, with nine patent dates, and metal screw-band top seal. The pale blue-green body, formed in a mold, is round with a tapered-shoulder. The Hero Glass Works, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, manufactured the mason jar.
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