Recipes for Preserving Fruits, Vegetables + Herbs

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

You can preserve 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.

Recipes for Preserving Fruit

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

Elderberries

Preserving 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!

Preserve Herbs & Flowers

Do you have any favorite way or recipes to preserve the harvest?

Family Food Garden

My name is Isis Loran, creator of the Family Food Garden. I’ve been gardening for over 10 years now and push the limits of our zone 5 climates. I love growing heirlooms & experimenting with hundreds of varieties, season extending, crunchy homesteading and permaculture.