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What's in the Mason Jar?

Fire Tonic from The Herbal Handbook for Homesteaders

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The weather is finally starting to feel like fall. I love that we can open the windows and freshen up the air in the house. But, I know it won’t be long before it gets too cold for that. The Farmer’s Almanac is predicting a cold and snowy winter for us. Truly, I love that, as well! But being closed up in the house or work or school more means germs will be more readily shared. Today, we are going to make Fire Tonic from The Herbal Handbook for Homesteaders by Abby Artemesia. It takes several weeks of sitting in the pantry to be fully ready, so now’s the time to prepare our herbal medicine cabinet and get our immunity boosted.

Fire Tonic Cider

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Peach Corn Salsa

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Peach season might be over where you are, but you still have plenty of time to make some delicious peachy recipes with the peaches you froze earlier in the season. This last episode in our peachy series of What’s in the Mason Jar gives us a sweet change to the usual. Peach corn salsa combines a few of summer’s special garden treats to make a sweet and spicy choice for chips or fish tacos, so great any time of the year.

cooking peaches…

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Peach Barbecue Sauce

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As we continue discovering what we can do with a box of peaches and revealing What’s in the Mason Jar, we arrive at Peach Barbecue Sauce. A little sweet, a little spicy and a little tangy.

peach barbecue sauce on chicken…

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Peach Butter

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Peach butter is like apple butter. But sunny and peachy keen.

Today’s recipe is slightly modified from Pick Your Own, a wonderful resource for great basic canning recipes as well as information on freezing produce and finding pick-your-own farms. However, we halved the recipe, reduced the sugar and added a little extra spice.

homemade peach jam canned…

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Peach Jam

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We love peach jam at our house. Likewise, it’s a great way to preserve summer fruit to enjoy for months to come. The process is very similar for many fruits. Most canning recipes for fruit include adding sugar. We like to use a low-sugar recipe and pectin for jam making. This means we aren’t adding quite so much sugar to our diets and the jam has more of that delicious fruit flavor!

canned homemade peach jam…

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Peach Syrup

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Decadent. Delicious. Peach simple syrup has a variety of tasty uses. Not to mention, you can process it in a canner to use in winter for wistful reminiscences and anticipation of sweet, juicy, relaxing, warm summer days.

canned peach syrup from Spirit's Freedom Farm…

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Freezing Peaches

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It’s midsummer and therefore peach season! The Peach Truck travels our way a couple of times each summer, so we took advantage of the opportunity to preserve their deliciousness and do a short series on what to do with a box of peaches from The Peach Truck. The absolute easiest way to preserve peaches or any fruit for that matter is to freeze it. Let’s start freezing peaches!

fresh peaches from the peach truck for freezing at Spirit's Freedom Farm…

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