A Beginner's Guide to Winter Food Preservation - Storing What You Have Grown

 A Beginner’s Guide to Winter Food Preservation - Storing What You Have Grown 

Table of Contents 
Introduction 
Sauerkraut 
Kimchi-or Fermented Radish/Cabbage 
Salting Beans 
Preparing The Beans for Preserving 
Using Preserved Salted Beans 
Preserving Tomatoes in Purée 
Spiced Fruits 
Spiced Crabapples. 
Spiced Peaches 
Traditional Red/Green Tomato Chutney 
Fruit Cheeses and Butters 
Rules for Making Fruit Cheeses and Butters 
Potting 
Apple Cheese 
Herbal Butters 
Apple and Plum Butter 
Fruit Syrups 
Soft fruit Juice Extraction 
Hard Fruit Juice Extraction 
Making a Jelly after Juice Extraction 
Soft Berry Syrups 
Elderflower syrup 
Rose Hip Syrup 
Conclusion 
Author Bio 
Publisher 

Introduction 

Millenniums ago, human beings began to evolve from hunters into settlers. That is when they began to grow food, instead of searching for it and handing it down. Then came the knowledge and understanding of the seasons, which would appear periodically, as a natural part of life and nature. So after spring, summer and autumn, came the harsh winter, when they might have found them snowbound, depending on the area in which they lived. 

And so the irresponsible and elders of the tribe, decided that there should be some method in which the food collected during the spring and summer could be preserved for use in the winter. And so down the ages, many processes, including using salt to preserve food came into existence. 

Apart from making jams, jellies, and chutneys, preserving fruit and vegetables, fresh from the garden in salt, or in brine or in vinegars, syrups and oil became a tradition of everyday life. Up to the 19th century, a housewife – who was only interested in caring about her family and household, instead of getting sidetracked with careers and trying to juggle both of them at the same time – could concentrate on preserving the harvest. So, East or West, here are some traditional ways and means in which you can preserve food for winter use.