A Beginner's Guide to Winter Food Preservation - Storing What You Have Grown

Publisher Marketing: A Beginner's Guide to Winter Food Preservation - Storing What You Have Grown Table of Contents Introduction Sauerkraut Kimchi-or Fermented Radish/Cabbage Salting Beans Preparing The Beans for Preserving Using Preserved Salted Beans Preserving Tomatoes in Puree Spiced Fruits Spiced Crabapples. Spiced Peaches Traditional Red/Green Tomato Chutney Fruit Cheeses and Butters Rules for Making Fruit Cheeses and Butters Potting Apple Cheese Herbal Butters Apple and Plum Butter Fruit Syrups Soft fruit Juice Extraction Hard Fruit Juice Extraction Making a Jelly after Juice Extraction Soft Berry Syrups Elderflower syrup Rose Hip Syrup Conclusion Author Bio Publisher Introduction Millenniums ago, human beings began to evolve from hunters into settlers. That is when they began to grow food, instead of searching for it and handing it down. Then came the knowledge and understanding of the seasons, which would appear periodically, as a natural part of life and nature. So after spring, summer and autumn, came the harsh winter, when they might have found them snowbound, depending on the area in which they lived. And so the irresponsible and elders of the tribe, decided that there should be some method in which the food collected during the spring and summer could be preserved for use in the winter. And so down the ages, many processes, including using salt to preserve food came into existence. Apart from making jams, jellies, and chutneys, preserving fruit and vegetables, fresh from the garden in salt, or in brine or in vinegars, syrups and oil became a tradition of everyday life. Up to the 19th century, a housewife - who was only interested in caring about her family and household, instead of getting sidetracked with careers and trying to juggle both of them at the same time - could concentrate on preserving the harvest. So, East or West, here are some traditional ways and means in which you can preserve food for winter use. Contributor Bio:  Davidson, John John Davidson was born in Barrhead in Renfrewshire in 1857. He spent his childhood years in Greenock, and after working as a pupil-teacher and briefly attending Edinburgh University, taught in schools in Glasgow and Perth. In 1989 he moved to London where he made his living as a journalist and critic. Several dramas had been published while he was still in Scotland, but in the 1890s he turned to poetry, and published several collections which were very popular: In a Music-Hall (1891) and Ballads and Songs (1894) amongst them. These were poems which chronicled urban working class life, and his sense of outrage at the poverty of the ordinary man, as expressed by the much-anthologized 'Thirty Bob a Week'. At the beginning of the new century he moved away from the lyric and began writing in blank verse which incorporated much scientific language; this series of Testaments were not as successful as his earlier ballad style, though Hugh MacDiarmid was to pay tribute to Davidson's attempts to combine poetry with scientific ideas. Despite the early popularity of the poetry, financial difficulties constantly plagued Davidson; he had had no choice but to continue with the journalism he disliked in order to support his family and other dependents. Sadly the money worries, combined with ill-health and depression, drove him to committing suicide in 1909.