Which canning pots are best? In the dead of winter, few things are more heartening than cracking open a jar of last year’s fresh garden tomatoes. Home canning is a preservation technique that requires ...

Winter is coming and you’d better be prepared. The delectably sweet fruits and vegetables in season right now will be shriveled husks rotting in your crisper drawer by the time the snows come. That is ...

Jenny Lichtenwalner was well into her pregnancy when she first felt the need to boil a huge pot of water. The final trimester is not the ideal time to pick up a new hobby, but she had been wondering ...

Canning is one of my favorite summer pastimes, because I’m able to preserve homegrown or locally grown summer produce at its peak and enjoy it later. I’ll spend the entire day canning, so I can make ...

Sometimes it’s good to cook by feel, tasting things as you go, throwing in a “why not” ingredient here, a dash of something else there. But canning is not one of those times. Hand-holding is highly ...