We have found all sorts of recipes for the fruits and vegetables that we grow. After having a garden every year, and fruit trees in the yard,we've found that when we start growing an item, there is almost always too much to eat!

Rather than letting all that good stuff go to waste, we ate what we could, and canning the rest. I started with the Ball Blue Book of Canning, that book is worth every penny! It has time-tested recipes for many of the items you'll process..

Notice, I said "many". Not all! We have had to improvise, seek out the knowledge and adapt things to what we needed. First, there were the loquats that came home - you'd be amazed at how many people have trees that they've never used the fruit from!

In the next post, how to use those loquats, kumquats and oranges that are coming ripe now.