34 canning recipes

Tangy, sweet Japanese-style pickled carrots, thinly sliced or julienned, ready in hours. Perfect as a side for sushi, rice bowls, grilled meats or for wraps.

Cherry pineapple jam combines pitted sweet cherries and crushed pineapple in an old-fashioned sun-finished preserve. Just three ingredients, no pectin needed.

Strawberry gooseberry jam combines tart gooseberries with sweet strawberries and sugar for a perfectly balanced no-pectin jam. Three-ingredient old-fashioned summer preserve.

Homemade taco sauce simmers fresh peeled tomatoes with green chilies, onion, cumin, and oregano for 90 minutes, then water-bath cans into shelf-stable pints. A pantry stocker that beats anything in a jar at the grocery store.

It's quite easy to make your own honey mustard instead of buying one from the store. By making your own you control the sodium level as store bought usually has a huge amount of added salt.

Homemade cherry and raspberry jam with citrus zest and a hint of almond extract. A no-pectin small-batch preserve that captures peak summer fruit in glossy, ruby-red jars.

Fruit-sweetened strawberry jam: a refined-sugar-free freezer jam thickened with apple-grape juice concentrate and orange juice. Bright, fresh-tasting strawberry preserves in 30 minutes.

Old-fashioned orange lemon marmalade with whole fruit, water, and sugar. The traditional 3-day method that yields a glossy, bittersweet preserve perfect for toast.

Put some fruit into your mornings with this jam that is scrumptious on toast.

We have had so many fruit jams, have you even tasted tomato jam with some spiciness, ginger and garlic. And it is so versatile, it goes well with cracker, bread or some pita bits.

Watermelon rind pickle is a Southern preserve made from the white inner rind, brined for three days then simmered in spiced sweet vinegar with cinnamon, cloves, and lemon. Crisp, sweet-tart, translucent.

Make your own cajun style vinegar by using this simple recipe.

Marynowane Pieczarki are Polish marinated mushrooms in a peppercorn and bay leaf vinegar brine. Tangy cocktail-hour bites that hold for weeks in the fridge. Pure old-world preserving.

Roberta's dill pickles, big-batch homestead canning with garlic, fresh dill, and mustard seed. A 7- to 8-quart heirloom recipe water-bath canned for shelf-stable pantry storage.

Old-fashioned sour cucumber pickles brined in vinegar, sugar, dry mustard, and alum with no cooking required. A three-month cold-cure refrigerator pickle.

Herman's famous kosher dill pickles: crunchy refrigerator dills brined with garlic, fresh dill, pickling spice, kosher salt, and vinegar. Ready in just 2 days, no canning equipment needed.