Another old method of food preservation, Mrs Andrea begins her chapter with an anecdote about her grandmother not knowing the dangers of bacteria when drying out apples in her garden shed. Dried fruit is still today a very common way to consume out-of-season produce, and many consider it a healthy candy alternative. Mrs Andrea suggests […]
This penultimate chapter begins with the advantages and disadvantages of salting as a preservation method for vegetable products — as one of the oldest ways of preserving vegetables, it is flexible and requires very little hands-on attention. One can use any container when salting, and Mrs Andrea suggests that the method is best saved for […]
Mrs Andrea’s chapter on canning meats begins with a warning: “In no kind of canning is it more important that each step in the process be carried out promptly than in canning meats.” Returning to her conversational style, she suggests that “if you have a farmer friend find out when he is planning to market […]