Canning
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Basic Tomato Sauce with a crock pot
In the summer time, in Zone 5, it is easy to find freshly grown tomatoes. Whether it is from your own garden, a local farmers market or someone has way too many and you decide to take them off their hands. Fresh tomatoes can be made into many things. Today I am making a basic tomato sauce with a crock pot. This sauce will be good to use in pastas, top on pizza or even in a casserole. To make the sauce unique for the meal, simply add different seasonings to your dish when preparing. Cut the ends and bad spots off of the Roma tomatoes. Other tomatoes can be…
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Making apple cider vinegar
One of my favorite vinegars to use around the homestead is apple cider vinegar. Vinegars have been around for thousands of years. It is a natural anti-bacterial and anti-fungal remedy used in many homeopathic recipes. I like adding apple cider vinegar to foods, drinks, and body care. All you need to make apple cider vinegar is apple cider and a mother of vinegar. If you don't have the mother, you can still make vinegar but it can take months to establish a mother of vinegar. Mother of vinegar is made up of cellulose and bacteria. The mother eats the alcohol in fermenting fruit and turns it to acetic acid. The…
