Editor's note: This story was originally published in 2020. Learning to preserve had long been on my bucket list. No one in my family or the neighborhood had taken me under their canning wing, and it ...

Who doesn't love pickles? Here's how to avoid the most common mistakes when you're making pickles at home. Making homemade ...

Favorite canning traditions from our kitchen to yours. Simply Recipes / Sally Vargas Canning is as much evolution as much as it is about traditions. Every summer I seem to add another food to my ...

There’s no easy answer, really. What lands in this column sometimes depends on what’s growing in my gardens and what is seasonal. Then again, I may share a recipe that’s caught my eye regardless of ...

For a die-hard pickle enthusiast like me, there's absolutely nothing like a jar of homemade pickles. Done right, homemade pickles are the real deal — and once you've tried the real deal, there's ...

Canning pickles isn’t difficult, but it requires preparation and an understanding of the “why” to achieve safe, optimal results. To help you approach home preservation with confidence, we asked an all ...

Audubon, Minn. The Anderson family may have found the secret recipe for family bonding: dill pickles. The eight siblings, originally from Lowry, Minn., pack family fun into hundreds of jars and just ...

My garden — more correctly, my husband’s garden — was overflowing with cucumbers. Lots of tomatoes and peppers, too, along with lesser amounts of carrots, eggplant, Egyptian spinach, zucchini and the ...

So Danélle Cutting’s out in the kitchen working on canning pickles while I write my article. She just insists on making pickles today and I will join her in a bit; I just need to get this done first.

Pickle recipes For any questions or doubts about canning and canning safety, contact the Maine Cooperative Extension at 581-3188 or 800-287-0274 or download the USDA Guide to home canning at the ...

2 pounds green beans Garlic cloves 2 1/2 cups of vinegar 4 dill heads 2 1/2 cups water 1/4 cup of canning salt About a teaspoon of cayenne pepper Trim the ends of beans and place them in a bowl of icy ...

Pickles are a summertime necessity, whether they're topping a burger or completing a perfect Chicago-style hotdog. But instead of tossing a jar into your shopping cart, try making them instead — ...