Recipes for Preserving Fruits, Vegetables, & Herbs

Preserving fruits, vegetables, and herbs is a great way to enjoy the harvests throughout the year.

You can preserve fruits and vegetables by dehydrating, canning, freezing, fermentation, or even air drying. This post is a round-up of preserving posts from Family Food Garden. I will continue to add recipes as time goes on.

Preserving Fruit Recipes

Preserving fruit is often by freezing or making jam. You can also dehydrate fruit, although I haven’t done much of that yet. Here are the fruit preserving recipes I’ve made so far, including a couple of fruit wine recipes.

Peaches

Canning peaches in sugar or honey syrup
Vanilla Peach Jam recipe for home canning
Pumpkin Spiced Peach Sauce

Plums

Spiced plum jam recipe (tastes like Christmas in a Jar!)
Plum wine recipe

Elderberries

Preserving Garden Vegetables

One thing to keep in mind when canning vegetables is that many are low acid and need to be pressure canned. With tomatoes you can add citric acid or vinegar in the case of salsa. There are some great preserving books that will guide you along with that!