The Pantry Archives

How to Adjust Canning Recipes for Elevation

Canning is a great way to preserve your garden harvest or farmers market haul. Learn about a minor adjustment you may need to make to the recipes based upon your elevation.

Green Tomato Pickles (with Canning Video)

These green tomato pickles are a great, different way to use some of your garden harvest.

DIY Mint Extract Recipe (with Recipe Video)

Learn how to make your own mint extract at home with this easy DIY tutorial.

DIY Coffee Extract Recipe

Coffee extract is a flavoring used in recipes, similar to vanilla extract. It has great flavor, but unfortunately, is very difficult to find in most stores. So make your own!

Low Sugar Blueberry Butter (with Recipe Video)

Learn how to make and can homemade blueberry butter, flavored with lemon, ginger, and spices.

How to Can Green Beans, Step-By-Step (With Canning Video)

Canning your own green beans doesn’t have to be intimidating. Learn how to preserve all the green beans you want!

Bourbon Blueberry Jam (with Canning Video)

This wonderful Bourbon Blueberry Jam is filled with flavor and you’ll love this preserve recipe!

How to Make Quick Apple Chutney

Apple Chutney is a wonderful, spiced apple topping that is perfect for serving with or on meats.

Easy Homemade BBQ Sauce

How to make a quick and delicious BBQ sauce for any recipe needs. This version is low sugar and packed with flavor!

Homemade Cranberry Sauce from Scratch

How to make your own cranberry sauce with real ingredients and no processed sugars.

How to Make Homemade Elderberry Syrup

Making elderberry syrup is a simple thing to do and it is packed full of vitamins and antioxidants.

Brown Sugar Glazed Carrots - Home Food Preservation | Cosmopolitan Cornbread

Brown Sugar Glazed Carrots – Home Food Preservation (With Canning Video)

This recipe for canned carrots is a great alternative to regular canned carrots and is a side dish all on its own!

Juicing a Watermelon | Using a Food Mill

I have had a lot of questions on how I juiced the watermelons to make my watermelon jelly. Today, I show you all about the food mill that I use to do it.

Our Favorite Spicy Dill Pickles

These spicy dill pickles are packed full of flavor and not too sweet. I can barely keep jars of them in the pantry, because they get eaten so fast!

How to Can Apple Slices | Preserving the Harvest with Cosmopolitan Cornbread

How to Can Apple Slices | Food Preservation (with Canning Video)

When apple season arrives, one of the easiest ways to enjoy apples later on is to can them. Learn how to easily preserve your own apple slices.

Reduced Sugar Watermelon Jelly & 1st Time Using Weck Jars (With Canning Video)

This version of homemade Watermelon Jelly has a reduced amount of sugar and also uses the low-sugar pectin. The flavor is unmatched!

How to Make Watermelon Jelly (With Canning Video)

You can enjoy that wonderful summer flavor all year long with this Watermelon Jelly!

How to Substitute Powdered Pectin for Liquid Pectin

Liquid and powdered pectins can not be simply switched out in a recipe. However, if you know the right way to do it, it is possible to successfully make the substitution in your preserving.