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New BPA-Free Mason Jar Lids: Are They Really Safer

WebThe rumor is true: According to Jarden Home Brands, the manufacturer of both Ball and Kerr products, lids produced since last fall have no BPA. Starting this summer, boxes of the …

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Home Canning, BPA-Free – A Gardener's Table

WebUPDATE, May 24, 2013: According to Jarden Home Brands, Ball and Kerr lids produced since last fall have no BPA. Starting this summer, boxes of the lids will be labeled “BPA …

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Mitzi’s Cabbage-and-Beet Salad – A Gardener's Table

WebMitzi, a massage therapist, and her colleague Rhonda told me about a salad that acts as an outstanding liver tonic. You slice head cabbage, grate raw beet, and chop some walnuts. …

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The Kreibich Nectarine Revisited – A Gardener's Table

WebCover the pan, and simmer the nectarines for 5 minutes. Crush them a bit with a potato masher or other tool, and then cover the pan again and simmer them a bit more, until …

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Homemade Chicory Coffee – A Gardener's Table

WebIn ten minutes’ time, I sliced the six roots and ground them to bits in a small food processor. Then I spread the bits on large pans and put the pans in a convection oven set at 200 …

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Experiments with Tibicos (Water Kefir) – A Gardener's Table

WebJayaram Chandrashekar et al., “The Taste of Carbonation,” in Science 16 (October 2009): 443-45. Pour ½ to 3/4 cup fruit syrup, depending on the magnitude of your sweet tooth, …

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Eating Purple Peas – A Gardener's Table

WebUnfortunately, none of these benefits has been proven. What we know anthocyanins do is improve plants’ defenses–against disease, drought, predation, and other stresses. …

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From Ukraine: Beet-Horseradish Relish – A Gardener's Table

WebMix the grated beets and horseradish together in a bowl, and then pack the mixture into a pint jar. In a mortar, crush the dill, coriander, and peppercorns. Combine the spices in a …

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Robert and Maria Strybel Archives – A Gardener's Table

WebI have seldom fermented beets on their own; for some reason these roots, when brined, seem more inclined to grow mold than to sour. But an ample harvest of beets from my …

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Can Pickles Cure the Flu

WebYour pickle crock . . . hosts various strains of L. brevis along with other species of Lactobacillus and fermentative bacteria in other genera, such as Leuconostoc and …

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U.S. Food Administration Archives – A Gardener's Table

WebI write about food from my home in Oregon’s Willamette Valley, where I continually experiment with the fruits and vegetables that I grow. My blog is meant to cultivate an …

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Triple Crown Blackberry Jam – A Gardener's Table

WebTurn the heat to medium-high, and boil the jam until a drop mounds in a chilled bowl. (The spoon test will work with this jam, too; when the jam is ready, two drops will run together …

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Check That Vinegar Label – A Gardener's Table

WebYou need 6.8 parts water, by weight, to 1 part 70-percent acetic acid to equal the strength of 9-percent vinegar. He calculated this way: 1 gram of 70-percent acetic acid solution …

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bisphenol-A Archives – A Gardener's Table

WebI write about food from my home in Oregon’s Willamette Valley, where I continually experiment with the fruits and vegetables that I grow. My blog is meant to cultivate an …

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USDA Approves Steam Canners – A Gardener's Table

WebLet the jars cool at room temperature, as usual. Now Dr. Barbara Ingham, of the University Wisconsin-Madison, has actually done some research on steam canners, and she has …

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Blue-Podded Capucijner peas Archives – A Gardener's Table

WebMichael Mazourek named Beauregarde for Violet Beauregarde, a character in Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. As you may remember, rude, arrogant Violet chews …

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Real Lemon versus ReaLemon – A Gardener's Table

WebThe most acidic uncured Eureka tested at 6.50 percent, and cured Eureka lemons ranged from 5.71 to 7.42 percent. Lisbon lemons from California varied less, from 4.79 to 4.86 …

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sunmukimchi Archives – A Gardener's Table

WebIn an article in Letters of Applied Microbiology, Japanese scientists report that feeding a pickle microbe to mice infected with the flu alleviates the rodents’ symptoms. The …

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Dietary Propaganda, Hoover Style – A Gardener's Table

WebHoover’s job was to cut food consumption at home and to mobilize the resulting surplus to feed both the fast-growing U.S. army and allied armies and civilians. As much as …

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