1. Fill the canner halfway with water
2. Preheat water to a boiling point
3. Load filled jars, properly fitted with lids, into the canner rack and use the handles to lower the rack into the water; or fill the canner, a jar at a time, with a jar lifter.
5. Turn heat to its highest position until water boils vigorously.
6. Set a timer for the minutes required for processing the food.
7. Cover with the canner lid and lower the heat setting to maintain a gentle boil throughout the process schedule. (Make sure your jars are covered with water the entire canning time. If you have to add water, make it hot before adding as not to slow your canner down)
8. When jars are boiled for recommended time, turn off the heat, and remove the canner lid. Make sure to watch the steam as you lift off your lid.
9. Using a lifter, remove the jars without delay and place them on a towel, leaving at least one-inch spaces between the jars during cooling. Do not place directly under a ceiling fan, cold surface or in front of cool draft. Let cool naturally.
Life and times of a new farmer/homesteader
Steps for Successful Boiling-Water Canning..You have to check out this gal's blogSteps for Successful Boiling-Water CanningFrom The Simple Womans Cannery blog
Green Cleaning TipsGreen Cleaning Tips In an effort to discover greener cleaning products, I have found that they don’t work as well on the toughest of dirt and grime. Not to mention that green cleaning product often times have a steep price tag comparatively to their caustic counter parts. This has had me on a mission to discover green cleaning methods that are effective and inexpensive. Two ingredients I have found to be the most consistently effective are hydrogen peroxide and white vinegar. Both are inexpensive, but I will warn that the smell of vinegar has taken some getting used to for me. As a little aside, I have been asked about cleaning products that claim they have oxygen based “bleaching” action. The fact is that these products contain natural ingredients that when mixed with water produce hydrogen peroxide. For this reason those products ARE safe and green, but demonstrates the effectiveness of hydrogen peroxide. One of the best assets of hydrogen peroxide as a cleaning agent is that it is not dangerous. The reason that it comes in brown bottles, is because when touched by light it changes into regular water. What could be safer than that? Here are a list of some of the methods I have found to be effective and the cost is PENNIES! · For the Bathtub & Shower stall: To remove soap scum use hydrogen peroxide and the netting from citrus fruit. Pour on the HP and allow to work for a few seconds before using the netting to scrub away the soap scum! Need to disinfect your bathtub or shower? Simply use a vinegar rinse before rinsing with water. · Toilet: Add 2 cups white vinegar to toilet with ½ cup baking soda. This will bubble and foam. Once the bubbling stops, scrub with brush as usual. Have stubborn hard water stains? Plunge as much water out of your toilet as possible. Pour 1 gallon of white vinegar into the toilet, scrub with brush, close lid, and allow to sit for 2 hours or overnight. Scrub once more and flush. · Sink: Sprinkle baking soda around sink. Pour or spray white vinegar. Allow to bubble for a few seconds. Use scrub brush or citrus netting to scrub clean. · Faucet: Soak a cleaning rag in white vinegar. Ring out. Wrap rag around faucet and secure with rubber bands. Leave on for 3-4 hours. Remove rag, and scrub the crannies with an old toothbrush. Then wipe clean with a clean dry rag. · Countertops: Mix hydrogen peroxide (about 1 cup) and white vinegar (about ½ cup) in spray bottle to clean and disinfect countertops or any surface. These are my thoughts.
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blog breakI will be taking a blog break. I dont know for how long. You can email or pm me which ever you have and I will try and answer if I am close to a computer. Thanks Long long gaps!Oh dear Ikeep making resolutions to keep up with this and then I don't! Let me see, what's been going on. Well, we are nearly done with school. Our garden is very overgrown, and we could do with spending more time out there. We are nearly done with girlguides, we have a sleepover, the village fete, and a party and then it's summer! We had a visit from my friend Ali, and it was lovely to see her, and for her daughter to get to ride with ours, we look forward to having them back again soon. And I am struggling with a lot of issues, which I will not go into here, but suffice it to say, anyone who feels like praying for me, I would be grateful! oh yes and our sheep were sheared! I have photos, but photobucket is playing up, so I'll upload them another time.
Finally online again and a jewelry questionI am finally back. My modem got fixed sometime last week but I have just been too busy to get online much. Last week my dd 5 had to be admitted to the hospital for dehydration after some kind of infection caused high fever and vomiting. She only had to stay one night and she did wonderfully! She is fine now and back to normal. The day after she got out was my ds9 birthday, then the fourth and then his party. So, I have been a little busy.
I do have a question for you ladies. I took my wedding ring in to have the prongs replaced that hold my large stone, I ended up getting a whole new head because of how many prongs needed replaced. And to make a very long story short, they completed messed up my ring. It now is now a round circle, it has a dent on the wide band, a chip on the wide band, the head is set crooked and they somehow messed up my band that contains little diamonds. I did complain at the store and got half of my money back, but I am going to complain to the main company too. Have any of you ever had something like this happen? If so, what did you do? I am just really upset about the whole thing. Yes, it is just a ring but it is my wedding ring and it is in terrible shape now because of what they did. I am telling everyone around here not to go to that store and I will NEVER go there again to have any work done or buy anything. Just wondered if you had any suggestions for me. Thanks and I will be back to regular posting soon I hope. Blessings, Rashel
PS - thank you to those that left me a comment and said you were missing me Tuesday's Thoughts God's CovenantI have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life. Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth."So God said to Noah, "This is the sign of the covenant I have established between me and all life on the earth." Genesis 9:13-17  Nice Day Off WorkI took a vacation day from work today - so I got paid to work on my projects here at home - very cool! Wish I could do that everyday... oh well... :o) I made great progress on the chicken fence today. I have all but one hole dug for the pier blocks that will be holding the posts. That last one requires me to move the temporary fence. I also finished painting the posts and lumber that I will use to build the fence - picked up a gallon of weatherproofing stain that was in the oops pile at Home Depot - great brown color and it was just $5! This afternoon it started raining - real rain, not just sprinkles as it has been. My poor holes are flooded right now! I need to get the gutter on the chicken house and the rain barrel set up... one project at a time though! I hope the rain lets up tomorrow morning so I can get out and work on the fence. It was a little chilly in the house, so I built a fire and now it is all toasty warm. I bought some Black Cherry Nectar at the store yesterday - organic and was about to expire, so it was on sale. I used it to make two batches of jelly - got 8 12-oz jars. They are on the counter right now cooling. I really hope that they set up since the pectin I used said it is best by Nov 2006! We will see... Determination Way to go, Kelsie! YUMMY recipe
Friends, yesterday I made these for a small picnic I was having and they were delciious, and sooo easy, I was asked several times for the recipe. Here it is. This is a keeper in my recipe book. No-Bake Chocolate Oat Bars
I had found this on someone's blog a week or so ago but I am sorry and can't remember who's... but boy are they fantastic, especially if you like peanut butter and chocolate! { Last Page } { Page 1 of 5 } { Next Page } |
Leslie Valeska
Leslie Valeska is the lucky wife of Thomas.
