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Ask Jackie: Food storage
Food Storage is the ultimate guide to storing food. A small sampling of the book includes Jackie's insights on building a root cellar, mastering the art of dehydration, keeping meat from going rancid, and preserving potatoes. This guide to food preservation addresses a variety of homesteaders, and is equally relevant to those who live at high elevation, in wet climates, or even in sub-zero temperatures.
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74 pages, Kindle Edition
First published August 1, 2012
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June 24, 2013
Jackie Clay is a well-known and much-loved writer for Backwoods Home magazine. Every month she writes a column that answers questions about gardening, animals, canning, dehydrating, and more. I especially admire Jackie because she was widowed at a young age and raised her kids with very little money. She built a cabin, and made a productive and self sufficient homestead, while feeding her family well.
This book is a compilation of many of Jackie's columns from the magazine, organized into sections for those who want to know more about food storage. Included in the book are:
Food storage - root cellars, dealing with weevils, waxing cheese, preserving foods in oil, overwintering vegetable plants, and storing honey, among other subjects.
Dehydrating - how to dry almost any kind of food, making fruit leathers, how to store dehydrated foods, making jerky, and more importantly how to USE dehydrated foods.
Freezing - methods for freezing meats, blanching fruits and vegetables, dairy products, bags/paper/containers for freezing.
This is only one of Jackie's many excellent books, and if you are interested in growing and preserving your own foods I suggest you get this one and also the one for canning, homestead cooking, animal care and gardening. I also have a really good cookbook she wrote called Jackie Clay's Pantry Cookbook. All of these books are reasonably priced and contain a wealth of knowledge from a woman who has done it all (and done it WELL).
This book is a compilation of many of Jackie's columns from the magazine, organized into sections for those who want to know more about food storage. Included in the book are:
Food storage - root cellars, dealing with weevils, waxing cheese, preserving foods in oil, overwintering vegetable plants, and storing honey, among other subjects.
Dehydrating - how to dry almost any kind of food, making fruit leathers, how to store dehydrated foods, making jerky, and more importantly how to USE dehydrated foods.
Freezing - methods for freezing meats, blanching fruits and vegetables, dairy products, bags/paper/containers for freezing.
This is only one of Jackie's many excellent books, and if you are interested in growing and preserving your own foods I suggest you get this one and also the one for canning, homestead cooking, animal care and gardening. I also have a really good cookbook she wrote called Jackie Clay's Pantry Cookbook. All of these books are reasonably priced and contain a wealth of knowledge from a woman who has done it all (and done it WELL).
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