Food Preservation ... Recipes ... Questions ... Tips and Tricks ...

[BadgeBunny]

I bought 5 pounds of "ugly" tomatos at the Farmer's Market Saturday and just stuck them in the dehydrator to make "sun-dried" tomatos ... I'm not good at pics but I'll give it a try when they are done.

Some I will put in olive oil and store in the fridge, but most of them will go in mason jars, get sucked shut by the FoodSaver and stuck on the shelf. Without an O2 absorber, I expect they will be okay for somewhere between 12 and 18 months, but I'm gonna do 4 little half-pint jars for an experiment ... and let those set 24 months, 2 1/2 years, 3 years, and 3 1/2 years ... so ... this will be an ongoing experiment for you guys to watch (me, too, because I've found storage times all over the place on the www and besides, I'm the experimenting type! ) ...

 

[eyecyou]

How about preserving breads like cornbread!!! Does anyone do this?

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[clock152]

How about preserving breads like cornbread!!! Does anyone do this?

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I am not sure if you could do breads that have been cooked.
here is what we do for things like cornbread.
remove the package of cornbread ( we use jiffy ) from the box ( I like to cut off the back of the box with the instructions and add it to the vac bag ).
measure out the needed amount of powdered eggs and powdered milk and put them in their own little baggy.
put all items in a vacuum seal bag or jar and vac seal.

we do this with hamburger helper too.

makes kind of a grab and go all in one package thing.

 

[BadgeBunny]

How about preserving breads like cornbread!!! Does anyone do this?

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The best way to do this is to store whole corn and grind it into meal when you need it. Whole corn stores better than ground corn, just like whole wheat stores better than flour ... Baring that, clock152's method will by you quite a bit of time but the cornbread mix will eventually go rancid so you will need to rotate your stock.

If you are talking about cooked cornbread, freezing it is the only way I know ... unless you are talking about making dressing and then you can crumble the cooked cornbread up, dehydrate it and then vacuum pack it.

 

[subprep]

Found this site which is pretty awesome www.momwithaprep.com which led me to this site and I really like all this bark stuff they have going on here http://www.backpackingchef.com/bean-bark.html

 

[subprep]

Canning cream cheese...

http://perkypreppinggramma.blogspot.com/2013/06/can-you-guess-what-this-is-cream-cheese.html

 

[BadgeBunny]

Canning cream cheese...

http://perkypreppinggramma.blogspot.com/2013/06/can-you-guess-what-this-is-cream-cheese.html

ohhhhhh ... I need to do this ... THANK YOU!!!

 

[subprep]

ohhhhhh ... I need to do this ... THANK YOU!!!

yes I cant wait, I hear cream cheese goes on sale around thanksgiving time. Im gonna stock up and can some!

 

[BadgeBunny]

yes I cant wait, I hear cream cheese goes on sale around thanksgiving time. Im gonna stock up and can some!

It does ...between Thanksgiving and Christmas you can get it for a song all day long. I only have so much freezer space ... I've got all kinds of room -- like a spare bedroom kinda room -- for canned goods ...

 

[TedKennedy]

How about spices? Cumin, chili powder, dried garlic, etc....
I've heard that heat really doesn't do em any favors, what about freezing?
I tried searching the thread, didn't see anything. Sorry if this has been handled already.