Everyone should have a wide-mouth canning funnel. It is a bold proposition, I know. You don’t even can, probably. Certainly, I do not can. Moreover, I have no plans to can. I do not have a robust ...

I don’t present as someone overly concerned with plating or presentation, but I absolutely despise splatters on the side of my soup bowl, at least until I start eating my soup. Sure, one could “wipe ...

This fall, I reluctantly (and later happily) became one of those people who can their abundant summer produce. After hearing stories about my mom making pickles and my brother making his own ...

Which canning supplies are best? It wasn’t that long ago that harvest time for gardeners also meant it was time to preserve their bounty by canning. The skill has been passed down generations, plus ...

-- Ball's new Home Canning Discovery Kit is an affordable way to give boiling water bath canning a try. It includes a polypropylene rack with a fitted lifter, three 1 ...

Annette Johnson and Abbigail Sampson blanch tomatoes at a recent Purdue Extension workshop on food preservation. Submitted photo Editor’s note: The Daily Reporter regularly features agricultural and ...

There’s nothing better than homemade jams or pasta sauces. But if you want to properly store them, you’ll need to invest in a canning set. Canning is easy to learn but takes skill to master, ...

On their farm commune in upstate New York in the early 1970s, Ruth, her husband Steve and their fellow communards had to learn to use many new tools as they applied methods of food production, ...