How to Preserve Vegetables and Fruit
There are many different methods for preserving fruits and vegetables. As your gardens overflow and you wonder if you can eat all the bountiful harvest, home food preservation is a great way to capture it all for use later in the season. It is also a fun activity for the entire family and everyone will be proud of their accomplishments! There have been many methods used for preserving food over the years. Many older methods have since been deemed to be unsafe and now, only several methods are recognized as safe. They are the boiling water method, the pressure method, freezing and dehydrating. The boiling water method is used to process high-acid foods at a temperature of 212 ° F for the period of time specified by the recipe used. This method is used to destroy molds, yeasts, and certain bacteria as well as to de-activate enzymes which could spoil the food. The boiling water method should not be used to process low acid fo...