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Comments (8)Hi All, Daniela Payne, web food editor for Canadian Living here. Canadian Living has always developed its preserving recipes using the safe-preserving guidelines outlined by Bernardin, the Canadian canning experts who produce home canning equipment. We always follow their guidelines to ensure our recipes have the correct pH (in other words, are high enough in acid) to make them safe to process in a boiling water canner. We also follow Bernardin's guidelines on processing times, making sure our jars are boiled for enough time to ensure that any bacteria is killed. That's inevitably 10 minutes or more, but times vary depending on the density of the food in the jars and the size of the jars themselves - the denser the food or the larger the jar, the longer it should boil to ensure that the centre comes up to the proper temperature. The best insurance is to always process jars for the amount of time stated in the recipe - never reduce it. For our new preserving book, The Canadian Living Test Kitchen updated and retested many of our classic recipes, so they are all safe to can at home. If you want to check the acidity of, say, a heritage family chutney you're unsure of, you can buy a pH meter from a reputable source and test your preserves BEFORE you put them into the jars. High-acid foods should have a pH of 4.6 or lower - these are the only foods safe to can in a boiling water canner. Anything with a pH greater than 4.6 is considered low-acid and can only be processed in a pressure canner. Hope this helps! Happy canning....See MoreHave Tree Squirrels Won?
Comments (22)This post keeps coming back, like the flu during school semesters. I have grown Devil's Trumpet for two years now. (Anyone bother to notice this is was written 3 gardening seasons ago?) I chose it because thorn apples cause a bad trip - hallucinations - more often than death. Didn't work. Squirrels haven't tried it. Then again, squirrels have stopped bothering us. We covered our tomatoes with fruit tree netting and squirted the little suckers unmercifully, when they got under the netting anyway. It was funny. Their natural reaction was to run upward, but the only escape was to run down and out. Soaked little tree rats. I think we tramatized them. They go by our yard over the telephone pole wires, and stare at us, hard, as they go by. One little movement from us has them running for three more yards before they pause. lol Not total triumph though. The squirrels didn't bother our plants all summer (two little diggy spots, but that's easily resolved by adding stones, glass marbles, or rose cane.) Instead, late blight wiped out our tomatoes and are now going for our peppers. I'm originally from South Jersey of "Jersey tomatoes" fame, so I'm passionate about tomatoes. Here it is, August and no more homegrown tomatoes this year. As for worrying about poisoning the critters with thorn apples. I did consider the fall out. IF it killed them (and I assumed they'd take a bite and decide it didn't taste good, so would get sick and hallicinate, teaching them stuff in our garden isn't good), by the time it killed them, it would have digested enough and they would have been too bad looking, so there would be no critters eating it that aren't also invasive to the area. (Starlings and pigeons. Two other cirtters that deserve no fretting about.) The logic of not killing a species that has outgrown its territory eludes me. The same "logic" is used for deer, oppossum, racoons, and a variety of other species that just don't work in a city. Because politicians worry about animal activists, instead, people in the city are in danger from "harmless" animals. Rabies has come back as a problem easily correctible. Cars run into deers on a major city thoroughfare. And squirrels? Well, those suckers destroy roofs, crawl spaces, and wiring when they seek new nesting areas by invadig our homes. All things rectifiable, if animal activists would simply realize, an overflow of critters in a city is bad for the people living there. Not like squirrels are on the endangered species list. If anything - too many. A shame, they are tasty, but shooting in the city has its problems, too. (People worry about invading critters, but not hungry people.) As for not wishing that on a worse enemies - cool. Your life has been good. My worse enemies have caused enough physical damage that I wouldn't mind making them sick and have them hallucinate on thorn apple either. I wouldn't intentionally poison them, but if they were foolish enough to eat one, I wouldn't warn them about the danger until they chewed a couple of times. It's really a matter of degrees on what enemies have done. What's been done to me deserves jail time, at best. There was a day when those enemies would have been killed for their actions. Never underestimate waht "worse enemy" is to some people. Now, don't mind me. Keep arguing back and forth. This post keeps returning because, face it, "Tree Squirrels are Winning." I just hope others learn how we stopped being hassled by them....See MoreTHE Best Buttermilk Pancake Recipe
Comments (27)I made Grandpa Corliss's pancakes this morning. I want to thank everyone for sharing their experiences, it helped me reach success with these wonderful tasting pancakes. I used my Happy Call pan that I use with other pancakes but Grandpa's stuck to the top pan when I flipped. I gradually added more flour but I think it might have been that the dark brown sugar I used caramelized and made it stick. I cooked it a little longer and that worked a bit better. I did have numerous volunteer pancakes but still ended up with a generous number of pancakes to go with my Grade B maple and European Style Sweet Butter. While they were very good, I had better practice again tomorrow ;>) Thanks Beth. Here is a link that might be useful: Flip Pan...See MoreRECIPE: Cookies to send to Afghanistan
Comments (6)These keep very well-- it's a recipe I've sent to the GS when he was in Afghanistan & Iraq-- no reason you couldn't sub pecans for the peanuts. Diane's Home Cookin Chapter: Cookies Chubby Hubby Cookies ==================== 2 cups butter or margarine, softened 1 cup sugar 1 cup light brown sugar, firmly packed 2 large eggs 2 tablespoons vanilla extract 4 cups all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon baking soda pinch of salt 1 12 ounce package semi-sweet chocolate chips 1 12 ounce package peanut butter chips 1 cup salted peanuts 2 cups crushed pretzels* . Preheat oven to 350* degrees. In a large bowl, cream butter and sugars until light and fluffy. Beat in egg and vanilla. In a medium bowl, combine flour, baking soda and salt. Blend into creamed mixture. Stir in chocolate and peanut butter chips, peanuts and pretzels. Drop by heaping tablespoons about 2 inches apart onto ungreased cookie sheet. bake 10-13 minutes, or until edges are lightly browned and centers are still soft. Do not overbake. Cool one minute on cookie sheet. Cool completely on wire racks. Store tightly in covered container. Source: Bob Zotto, Bruker AXS Cookbook Note from Marlen: The pretzels should be about the size of the chocolate chips, not pulverized. You want to taste bits of pretzel as you munch. This is a crunchy cookie. I use a food processor and just pulse until the desired size is achieved. Original recipe posted by Marlen ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Don't send anything in a pressurized can, anything possibly breakable put into ziplock bag. other things to send : playing cards & DICE beef jerky trail mixes raisins Oreos Pringles Pretzels & a mustard for dipping Couple of other things GS told us: lipbalm foot powder gum hand held games waterless liquid soap tylenol AT & T phone cards PB & Cheese cracker combos Nuts Cannot send anything with pork or pork by product in it; cannot send anything with scantily clad female pictures etc....See More- 4 years ago
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