Home Canning and Food Preservation with Confidence and Assurance

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Pressure Canning Guide link.

Free Pressure Canning Guide

mockup of the garden to pantry planner

Garden to Pantry; Month by Month Planner

Simply Canning Guide internal pages and cover.

Simply Canning Book

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I am Sharon Peterson Gardener, food preserver, and guide for beginners at SimplyCanning. I keep it simple and practical, just like home should be.

Our Goal: Make food preservation recipes simple and easy to follow for
beginners and experienced canners.

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Pot of salsa on the stove.

Canning Salsa: A Beginner’s Guide

Black graniteware water bath canner sitting on the stove.

Water Bath Canning ; Beginner Friendly Tips and Instruction

Pint jar of lima beans.

How To Can Lima Beans

Canning jar filled with solid soup ingredients with a boiling pot of soup to the side.

Canning Soup: Adapt Your Recipe to Make It Safe for Home Canning

A jar of orange marmalade with various canning supplies around it.

Orange Marmalade Recipe

Presto and All American pressure canners sitting on the stove.

Pressure Canning: How to Can with a Pressure Canner

canning jars on wood background

Free Canning Quick Start Series

Canning Quick Start is a free 7 email series that brings you through all the most important information to know first. A great way to get started. No charge.

Canning Vegetables

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Autumn colored table cloth with white dish of onions and honey sauce, three pint jars of canned onions in the background.

How to Can Onions with Honey and Wine

Pint jar of home canned butternut squash, sitting on a red checked towel with various canning tools in the background.

How to Can Butternut Squash

Close up of multiple quart jars of home canned french fry cut potatoes.

How to Can Potatoes

A bowl of freshly picked green beans in the garden.

Is water bath canning green beans safe?

Canning Meat

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Mason jar of chicken broth with the lid being wiped clean with a paper towel.

How to Use Bouillon Cubes in Home Canning.

Top down view of a pot of chili with lots of ground meat, beans, chopped green pepper and onion, wooden spoon giving it a stir.

How to Can Chili Con Carne (with meat and beans)

Beef Stew for Canning: Recipe and tips.

Packing quart jars with pieces of raw meat.

Canning Meat, How easy it can be.

Canning Tomatoes

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Hot jars of tomatoes packed inside the canner.

How to Can Tomatoes: Adding Lemon Juice and Other Adaptations.

Pot of salsa on the stove.

Canning Salsa: A Beginner’s Guide

Using my Victoria Food mill to remove skins and seeds.

How to Can Your Homemade Spaghetti Sauce: Meatless

Two pint jars of tomato vegetable juice sitting on the deck railing, demonstrating what the final product will look like.

Canning Tomato Vegetable Juice Recipe

Canning Fruit

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Pint jars of home canned pineapples with 2 fresh pineapples in the background.

How Do You Can Pineapple? A Step-by-Step Guide

A drinking jar filled with ice and bright red cranberry juice.

How to Can Cranberry Juice

Three small jars of various fruit butters sitting on a railing outdoors.

Fruit Butter

Counter full of home canned peaches.

Canning Peaches

Pickling and Condiments

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A jar filled with hard boiled quail eggs covered with spicy brine

Pickled Quail Eggs

Two colored Pickle Pipes screwed on the tops of canning jars.

Pickle Pipe Fermenting Lids

Packing Dilly Beans

Small open jar of candied jalapenos with a fork in the jar.

Candied Jalapenos Recipe for Canning

Jam and Jelly

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Top down view of 5 opened half pint jars of peach pineapple jam.

Low Sugar Peach and Pineapple Jam Recipe

Strawberry Jam from Frozen Strawberries?

Three small jars of various fruit butters sitting on a railing outdoors.

Fruit Butter

Three jars of deeply colored plum butters sitting on a ledge outdoors.

Plum Butter Recipe: Easy, Delicious, And Made In The Slow Cooker

Freezing Food

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Metal measuring cup filled with thick rich homemade tomato paste.

How to Make and Freeze Tomato Paste

Freezer containers filled with golden ham broth

How to Freeze Ham Broth

A bag filled with one cup of pumpkin and labeled accordingly.

How Do You Freeze Pumpkin

Basket of asparagus spears with more asparagus in containers nearby and a dish of scraps too

How to Freeze Asparagus

Dehydrating

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Square dehydrator tray with a black mesh cover, loaded with pineapple chunks ready for dehydrating.

How to Dry Pineapple (Fresh or Frozen)

Dehydrated Food vs. Freeze Dried – Which Method is Right for You?

Dried zucchini slices in a white dish.

7 Methods for Dehydrating Food at Home

A jar filled with soft dehydrated apple slices

How to Dry Apples

Canning Safety

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Sharon in her kitchen discussing why you should not turn your jars on the side for processing.

Never Lay canning Jars on Their Side

Nine half pints of tomato sauce cooling on a brown towel.

What is Flat Sour in Home Canning? Causes and Prevention.

Hot jars of tomatoes packed inside the canner.

How to Can Tomatoes: Adding Lemon Juice and Other Adaptations.

Which Canning Methods Should I Choose?

Equipment

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Mason Jar Pour Lid with Handle: Honest Review

Two colored Pickle Pipes screwed on the tops of canning jars.

Pickle Pipe Fermenting Lids

Ball Electric Water Bath Canner sitting on a kitchen counter.

Ball Electric Water Bath Canner

Image clip from the video with a variety of canning jars on the counter.

Guide to Canning Jars, Lids, and Rings

Recent Posts / Canning and Food Preservation

Dandelion Jelly Recipe; Tastes like Honey?

Metal measuring cup filled with thick rich homemade tomato paste.

How to Make and Freeze Tomato Paste

Square dehydrator tray with a black mesh cover, loaded with pineapple chunks ready for dehydrating.

How to Dry Pineapple (Fresh or Frozen)

Top down view of 5 opened half pint jars of peach pineapple jam.

Low Sugar Peach and Pineapple Jam Recipe

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