Calypso Storage Share Note: Week of August 8, 2005

Your Share This Week:

*Kohlrabi
*Carrots
*Zucchini
*Kale
*Garlic

We are happy to provide you with vegetables to preserve. How wonderful it will be to enjoy local veggies throughout
the Winter when fresh produce is not available. Please keep us updated about your storage share is working for you.

Enjoy!

Mary

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To Preserve Kohlrabi:

Freezing:
Blanch in Boiling water for 3 minutes. Cut into chunks and freeze in an air tight container.

To Preserve Carrots:

Canning: Cover, clean, scraped, cut, or whole carrots in boiling water and bring again to a full boil; drain, but save the water to put in jars for processing. In jars: pack hot carrots, leaving just ½ inch headroom. Pressure process at 10 pounds for 25 minutes.

Freezing: Remove tops, wash, and peal. Cut into disks, or lengthwise strips. Blanch in boiling water for 2 minutes. Cool and drain. Freeze in airtight container.

To Preserve Arugula:

Blanch and then freeze in an airtight container.

To Preserve Zucchini:

Freezing: Blanch whole zucchini and then grate. Store in an airtight container and use in winter soups and breads.

Pickling:
4 pounds summer squash Wash and slice squash. Pack garlic, dill seed, and
½ cup salt squash into jars, leaving ½ inch headspace. Bring
1 quart vinegar vinegar, water, and salt to a boil; simmer for 5 min.
1 cup water Fill jars to ½ inch from top with the boiling hot
dill seed (optional) liquid. Remove air bubbles. Wipe jar rims. Process
garlic (optional) for 15 minutes in a boiling water bath.

Recommended Resources:
Gulliver’s Books can probably order any of these titles for you:

Keeping Food Fresh – Old World Techniques and Recipes by the Gardeners and Farmers of Terre Vivante (Chelsea Green Publishing)

The Big Book of Preserving the Harvest by Carol W. Costenbader (Storey Publishing)

Putting Food By by Greene, Hertzberg and Vaughan (Penguin Books)

So Easy to Preserve by Andress and Harrison (Cooperative Extension Service, University of Georgia) – available from the Alaska Cooperative Extension

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