Learning How to Preserve Pickles

I find canning one of the interesting skill in the homesteading. This skill is not much known among the city people. I had to learn it through internet as I am leaving away from the family. But if you are into homesteading and off grid lifestyle, this is one skill worth learning.

Here's what I have learned through youtube so far about pressure canning.

Do note that for your typical cucumber pickles, you don't even have to do pressure canning. But if you are making jam or say sauce then pressure canning definitely helps.

1. Take a jar and make sure it's clean. Wash it if you kept something into it before.

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1. Add boiled water into the jar and get the dirt and the germs off the jar.

2. Keep it in sunlight and let it dry.

3. Let's assume you want to make pickles and keep it in this jar. You can follow the pickle recipe as shown in the video below.

1. Now you can take the dry jars. Add some citric acid onto the corners of the jars.

2. Add your pickle into it. If you have used sauce or jam then put it into the jar respectively. Though for jam, sauce and pickle you'd have to vary the percentage being used.

3. Take wooden spatula and remove the bubbles.

4. Now close the jars. And put them into the hot water so that it removes the air from the jar.

5. Get the jar off the hot water and let it cool for 24 hours.

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Make sure to keep the jar in cool and less humid places. This way they won't attract any form of insects. And also make sure they don't get sunlight from this point forward.

Now the thing is this process may work out for the pickles. I am not really sure if the Jam can be easily made through this process. The reason being apart from citric acid, you may need few more chemicals if you are making it through modern process.

My current focus is to find out natural preservation options instead of citric acid or others. I browsing through a lot of internet videos but most of them do make use of the citric acid for sauce and jam. So that pretty much limits my search as of now.

Have you tried making jam and managed to preserve it? How did you do it without using any chemicals or acid, do let me know in the comments.

Rydhi
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