Food Garden Life Show: Helping You Harvest More from Your Edible Garden, Vegetable Garden, and Edible Landscaping
Preserving the Apple Harvest
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We dig into the art and science of preserving—and talk about preserving apples— with Sarah Page, a contributor to the latest version of the Bernardin Complete Book of Home Preserving: 400 Delicious and Creative Recipes for Today.Page, who works as a recipe developer and tester, is a trained consumer chef and home economist. She loves creating new recipes with local and seasonal harvests. Page’s top tips for successful preserving are to use a tested and approved recipe; and use fresh produce.Page, who grew up in a household where her mother served applesauce regularly, loves to work with apples and shares a few of her favourite ideas:Apple-cranberry butter, preserving apples for pie filling later in the year, apple sauce with a savoury flavour (e.g. chipotle), and leaving the skin on pink apples when making apple sauce to give the sauce a pink colour.
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We dig into the art and science of preserving—and talk about preserving apples— with Sarah Page, a contributor to the latest version of the Bernardin Complete Book of Home Preserving: 400 Delicious and Creative Recipes for Today.
Page, who works as a recipe developer and tester, is a trained consumer chef and home economist. She loves creating new recipes with local and seasonal harvests.
Page’s top tips for successful preserving are to use a tested and approved recipe; and use fresh produce.
Page, who grew up in a household where her mother served applesauce regularly, loves to work with apples and shares a few of her favourite ideas: Apple-cranberry butter, preserving apples for pie filling later in the year, apple sauce with a savoury flavour (e.g. chipotle), and leaving the skin on pink apples when making apple sauce to give the sauce a pink colour.
