Cost-Effectiveness: Preserving your own food can save money in the long run. Buying produce in bulk when it's in season and at its cheapest, then preserving it, can lead to significant savings compared to purchasing out-of-season or pre-packaged preserved goods. Improved Food Quality and Taste: Home preservation allows you to control the ingredients that...
Like many things in life, jam making is easy when you know how - but mystifying when you don't. Rosie's Preserving School is there to help - use our Library of video Workshops to help . Cook along in real time, starting with Preserving for Beginners. You will soon find that it is...
Welcome to March and our Three Bean Challenge! We need you to channel your inner Jack and the Beanstalk and use these beans to grow enough beans for you and your family to eat all Summer long. As the variety is called 'Enorma' there will probably be enough to freeze a few or make...
We have had a very good response to our idea of Community Canning Clubs so now it is time to take action. To relieve any pressure, the Clubs locally will start when they start - it will all be different, different days, different times in the day etc etc so there is no one-size-fits...
At this time of year we are busy thinking of Christmas plans, things for our own family and what to make or gift to those further afield. At Rosie's Preserving School we try to present ideas for quick, easy and cost-effective preserves to make lots of different Christmas gifts for hampers, stockings, table gifts,...
But am I? I have been thinking a lot about this lately. I expect you to read my posts, blogs and website, sign up for Workshops, read my books and simply trust what I put out when you know very little about me. The preserving bug bit me when I was still very young,...
If you are worried by instructions in a recipe to 'waterbath' the preserve you have made it may put you off making the recipe at all. That is a shame as there are many lovely things to be made that can use this process and it is really easy. This process is suitable for...
"If you learn, teach If you get, give" - Maya Angelou My hero, Maya Angelou. If I can't express what I feel I usually find that she has done it for me already, beautifully and kindly. There is so much that I feel about the current imbalances in our lives around the World -...
