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Elderberry Juice Recipe

September 26, 2019 by Jenny Gomes 1 Comment

This recipe for elderberry juice does not have any added sugar. Instead I add a little honey and cranberry juice. Elderberry juice is a great alternative to elderberry tincture or capsules or gummies, which are great but juice is awesome for when you want to sip rather than snack your elderberry goodness. Read on for the easy elderberry juice recipe with step by step canning instructions for canning, elderberry juicing, and no added sugar!


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Elderberries are classically made into heavily sweetened syrup and jellies, which are delicious, a beautiful purple color, but full of sugar. Their flavor is tasty but so tart, it’s hard to find a way to consume it without adding something to make it palatable. This recipe is my answer to this problem.

Elderberry Juice Recipe

You Will Need

8 cups elderberry juice (methods of juicing explained below)

1 bag/about 2 cups cranberries OR 2 cups cranberry juice (ok if berries are frozen from Thanksgiving)

1/4-3/4 cup honey, to taste

1/2 cup apple cider vinegar

1/4-1/2 teaspoon ground ginger, optional

cinnamon stick, optional

Juicing Elderberries

You can juice fresh elderberries a few ways. You can use the traditional steamer for juicing elderberries where the berries go in the top compartment, the water is in the very bottom, and the juice flows to the middle and down a tube into your preserving pan. They are cool pots that do one job- steam & juice- and if you have lots of juice-y fruits and plan on making lots of juice and you have the room to store it, I’d recommend them. Be sure to not let the bottom run dry.

If you don’t have a juicer steamer, you can line a pasta pot (the colander part) with cheese cloth and load it with the elderberries and cranberries if using. Make a large parcel of berries by wrapping a string around the bundle of berries and tying a knot, like a giant tea bag.

You’ll add enough water to go 1/2 – 3/4 of the way up the sides of the berries and you’ll be making a diluted juice this way. This is neither positive nor negative- it is just juice with added water. This may be helpful if you don’t have a ton of elderberries, or if you want to make a lot of jars, or both. I prefer this method personally because I share my juicer steamer with my mom and sister and sometimes it is handy to just use the pasta pot.

Juicing Elderberries | How to Juice Elderberries

Wild elderberries are going to vary dramatically in terms of how much juice they yield and tartness, so you may have to add more honey, cranberry, or water to get a palatable result with either juicing method.

Begin juicing with either the juicer steamer or the pasta pot and cheese cloth method and when the berries seem deflated, steamed limp, and don’t release much if any juice when pressed with a spoon, they are juiced.

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Elderberry Juice Recipe: After Juicing Elderberries

Prepare your water bath canning pot or your steam canner. Fill the water bath canning pot with water, add 5 pint (2 measuring cups total each) jars, and bring to a boil OR fill the steam canner to fill line and turn on low with the 5 pint jars nearby on a towel-covered counter top. 

Measure out the juice you steamed into the preserving pan. If you are adding cranberry juice, add it here. If you steamed the berries together, add 10 cups of elderberry-cran juice to the pan.

If you steamed only elderberries, add just 8 cups of elderberry juice to the pan and add in the 2 cups storebought cranberry juice.

Add the optional cinnamon stick if desired, and turn heat to medium.

Add the apple cider vinegar and ginger if desired.

Add honey, stirring to dissolve and tasting at quarter cup intervals. Be sensitive to the idea that maybe what you need is a cup of water, not necessarily honey, if the taste of the elderberry is strong.

Elderberries have a strong taste, and in comparison, I think chokecherries have a strong, bitter taste. That said, sometimes you just need the elderberry juice to be diluted a bit with cranberry or water rather than simply sweetened. I’ve tried the same with chokecherries and haven’t been successful; chokecherries are too bitter without loads of white sugar to be palatable.

Ladle into jars one at a time, apply lids and rings, and either submerge into the boiling water of the boiling water bath with a jar lifter  OR set gently on the rack of the steam canner. 

Process for 10 minutes PLUS 5 minutes for every 1000 ft above sea level. Remove from heat, rest jars carefully on towel covered countertop. Label cooled jars and store for up to 1 year. 

Want to try this recipe, but not sure about the canning part? Join my completely free Canning Basics Email Course! I’ll send you super simple lessons to your inbox to get you started on the right foot.

If you love Elderberry, be sure to check out the Elderberry Gummies Recipe!

Healthy Elderberry Gummies Recipe

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Best Canning Recipes

September 19, 2019 by Jenny Gomes Leave a Comment

In this post I’ll share the best, easiest canning recipes with step by step instructions for water bath canning and steam canning.

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The best canning recipes are the ones that anyone can make, even a beginner.

The best canning recipes are delicious, giftable, made from readily available ingredients, and are EASY.

In 10 Easy Canning Recipes, I’m sharing my favorite, Best Canning Recipes.

It’s a printable PDF Ebook with step by step instructions for water bath canning and steam canning in every single recipe.

That way, you don’t have to flip back and forth to an instruction section just to figure out what to do, when!

This is the best easy applesauce recipe ever. This girl cans it in little convenience sized jars that are perfect for lunch boxes- genius! What a time saver! And applesauce is so healthy and delicious. Totally making this.

You’ll love the beautiful, easy to read PDF. You can access it on your phone, laptop, or print out out, too!

Get the 10 Easy Canning Recipes HERE today!

If you’re not ready for a collection of recipes, that’s perfect! I have something for you instead.

I love teaching beginners all about how easy canning is. If you’re new to canning, jump into the Free Canning Basics Course!

Free Canning Basics Course

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Best Canning Recipes for Gifts

September 12, 2019 by Jenny Gomes 2 Comments

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Canning for gift giving, for the holidays, for Christmas, and for party favors is fun and easy if you give yourself a little lead time and choose the right recipes. Below are the easy canning recipes and beginner friendly resources for canning confidently when you’re canning for giving gifts. Get ready for the best canning recipes for gifts!

First, if you’re new to canning, you should sign up for the FREE Canning Basics Course. It’s an easy, email course where I send you bite-sized email lessons to your inbox to help you overcome the most common hurdles I see beginners face when learning how to can.

Free Canning Basics Course

The Best Canning Recipes for Gifts

All the below recipes are pretty in their jars, crowd pleasers, and easy for you to make in any quantity so you can make enough for a your three besties, your kid’s teachers, or the whole office.

Applesauce Canning Recipe

This post will share an easy homemade applesauce recipe that you can preserve in jars with the traditional water bath instructions OR the steam canning directions. I’ll also share my favorite jars for lunch box size portions of this healthy snack!

Jalapeño Pecan Jelly

Jalapeno Pecan Jelly Easy Canning Recipe is delicious, spicy and sweet, and quick to make. This recipe is from a 5th generation pecan farmer friend, Kristen, from Texas, and she’s been kind enough to share her family’s jalapeño pecan jelly canning recipe with us all. You won’t believe how FAST this jelly recipe is…it might even be faster than my raspberry jam recipe! Read on for the easy recipe!

Ranch Style Salsa Recipe

This salsa recipe is ranch-style because the onions, tomatoes, and peppers are roasted either under a broiler or on a grill until charred (blackened).

Spiced Pear Butter

Spiced pear butter is easy, grown up in taste, and flavored with maple syrup, whiskey if you please, and spices. It’s delicious in your lunch box, in between the layers of a cake (instead of frosting!), and more. Read on for this simple spiced pear butter recipe!

Maple Whiskey Peaches

This post will show you step by step how to can peaches in vanilla syrup with a splash of whiskey. The resulting preserve can be eaten out of the jar plain, are perfect on top of a cheesecake, waffles, or ice cream, or are a flavorful alternative to plain ol’ peaches in a pie or crisp. Read on for the tutorial!

Pickled Bread and Butter Jalapeños

These pickles are a blog reader favorite, for good reason! They are spicy and sweet and so giftable!

Lime Cherries Canning Recipe

This easy canning recipe calls for stevia instead of sugar, which makes it keto-friendly, paleo-friendly, and most importantly, family-friendly. It’s a great lunch box option when canned in half-pint jars and is fast and delicious.

Bonus: A Recipe that’s Not a Canning Recipe

1 Hour Homemade Coffee Liqueur

 This 1-hour homemade coffee liqueur recipe can be prepared and dispensed into bottles for gifting or enjoying yourself in an hour. It is a simple recipe that my mother has used for years and this coffee liqueur is delicious both hot or cold in a variety of mixed drinks. It also is easily doubled and is best made with friends. Read on for a delicious homemade coffee liqueur recipe that won’t have you tied up in the kitchen all afternoon!

Before you begin these canning recipes for gifts

Read this post below! You can preserve large quantities easily with these tips.

Canning for Party Favors

Canning for a party can be a cost-effective, fun, impressive way of thanking guests for coming to your event. Before you think, “I don’t have time to make 40 jars of jam” hear me out.

To complete your jars, add this:

You need these canning jar labels.

Round Canning Jar Labels | Love Into Jars

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Easy Canning Recipes

September 10, 2019 by Jenny Gomes Leave a Comment

These easy canning recipes are perfect if you’re wondering how to can food for beginners. Each recipe has step by step instruction for water bath canning and steam canning and each of these easy canning recipes are FAST.

Easy Canning Recipes perfect for beginners! Applesauce, simple cherries, fast raspberry jam and more for a new canner eager to can their own food in jars!

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First, if you’re new to canning, consider jumping into the Free Canning Basics Course. The course is bite sized email lessons delivered to your inbox, designed to help you over the most common hurdles beginners encounter.

Free Canning Basics Course

How To Can Food For Beginners Free Canning Basics Course

Easy Canning Recipes

Canned Peach Sauce

We’ve all heard of applesauce but what about the peach sauce? This recipe will share a great way of making peaches into a sauce that even babies can enjoy that’s thicker than just plain peach puree. Read on for the easy canning recipe with instructions for water bath canning AND steam canning! 

Raspberry Jam Recipe

Raspberry jam is one of the fastest preserves a person could make. Canning has a terrible reputation as being time-consuming- this recipe proves that canning can be quick, easy, and is a simple extension of the cooking process. Raspberry jam is a delight to give as gifts, easy to pick at U-pick farms, and delicious preserved in mason jars. 

Mixed Berry Jam

The beauty of this recipe is the naturally occurring acid that’s present in berries. This acid makes berries foolproof for beginners and makes it nearly impossible for you to make a mistake.

Applesauce Canning Recipe

This easy canning recipe will share an easy homemade applesauce recipe that you can preserve in jars with the traditional water bath instructions OR the steam canning directions. I’ll also share my favorite jars for lunch box size portions of this healthy snack! There’s options for zero added sweetener, too!

Spiced Pear Butter

Spiced pear butter is easy, grown up in taste, and flavored with maple syrup, whiskey if you please, and spices. It’s delicious in your lunch box, in between the layers of a cake (instead of frosting!), and more. Read on for this simple spiced pear butter recipe!

Strawberry Jam Canning Recipe

This easy canning recipe will share a great recipe for strawberry jam that can be halved or doubled and can be pureed smooth or not. It is versatile and easy, fragrant, and fast. Enjoy and be sure to download the printable version of the recipe to have on hand!

Tomato Jam Easy Canning Recipe

This tomato jam easy canning recipe is savory, herbal, and rich. It is amazing when paired with meat, goat cheese, pasta, and salty snacks. Read on for the step by step tutorial to make your own tomato jam!

Lime Cherries Canning Recipe

This easy canning recipe calls for stevia instead of sugar, which makes it keto-friendly, paleo-friendly, and most importantly, family-friendly. It’s a great lunch box option when canned in half-pint jars and is fast and delicious.

Carrot Pickles

Carrot pickles are one of my favorite pickles because they aren’t cucumbers.  I actually don’t care for cucumbers much, to be honest, which I know is really silly but they just don’t light my fire. Carrot pickles are always crisp and always delicious.

Helpful Posts For A Beginner

You’ll want to read these posts for pro tips on canning faster, easy canning basics, and canning the best way possible!

How To Use a Steam Canner

Steam canners are faster than traditional canners and are much easier. They can be used for any water bath canning recipe and save 25 minutes per batch. Learn how to use a steam canner in this post!

The Best Canning Jars

This post will share the best, most versatile canning jars for a new or experienced canner, that will double as food and drink containers in your home, and will help simplify your pantry and your canning process. Read on for the best canning jars!

Do You Need to Use Pickling Salt?

Many canning recipes call for pickling salt, and curious canners want to know: Do you need to use pickling salt? I’ll explain what pickling salt is when you should use it when it is okay to skip, and you’ll want to dive into canning immediately because salt is salt, Wildflowers.

What Happens if You Forget The Lemon Juice?

What Happens if You Forget the Lemon Juice? In many canning recipes, it is required that you add an acidifying ingredient like bottled lemon juice, citric acid, or vinegar. What happens if you forget? This post will explain. Spoiler alert: it ain’t pretty.

Do You Have To Simmer Your Canning Lids?

Do you have to simmer your canning lids? This post will explain whether or not you have to simmer your canning lids before putting them on your canning jars. Read on to get the scoop! Spoiler alert: The way your aunt is doing it is probably wrong!

How to Adjust for Altitude When Canning

Adjusting the processing time of your canning recipe based on your elevation or altitude sounds scary and is enough to make a beginning canner back up her canning jars and stick to freezer jam. Adjusting for altitude is actually very simple, and this post will explain exactly how to make the time adjustments so you know you are canning safely!

Canning Jump Start Guide

Did you know I’m a teacher? I love creating visual guides that help learners understand big ideas. If you’re a new canner, this guide is for you! I can help you dive into canning with a modern spin with the Canning Jump Start Guide- read on for the guide that will help you get started canning with visual guides, checklists, charts, and more so you can SEE how to get started canning!

Canning Personality Quiz

This quiz will determine your preserving personality and once you read your results, you will be given some helpful suggestions for how to improve your canning game. We are all here to grow, right? Read on for the quiz, Wildflowers!

What other easy canning recipes would you like to see? Comment below and let me know!

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Easy Canning Recipes perfect for beginners! Applesauce, simple cherries, fast raspberry jam and more for a new canner eager to can their own food in jars!

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Easy Tomato Sauce Canning

September 4, 2019 by Jenny Gomes 1 Comment

This tomato sauce canning recipe cuts out the most time-consuming step -peeling- and replaces it with the use of an appliance nearly every busy mom has- the blender. If you want to can healthy tomato sauce for your family, but don’t want it to take forever, this recipe is for you.

Easy Tomato Sauce Canning | This recipe skips the peeling step, which saves a ton of time! You'll never go back to peeling tomatoes when canning again!

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First, I recommend you use a steam canner for your easy homemade tomato sauce canning instead of the traditional water bath because they save about 25 minutes for every subsequent batch. Steam canners are amazing, USDA approved pot that makes canning FAST. You can read more about them here. If you don’t have a steam canner yet, don’t worry. I have step by step directions for BOTH water bath and steam canning below.

For this easy tomato sauce canning recipe, you’ll need a blender. Instead of coring and peeling the tomatoes (which takes a long time, makes a big mess, and is honestly a real drag) you will quarter or half the tomatoes (depending on the efficacy of your blender) and blend them smooth.

Do you need to peel the tomatoes before canning?

No. In this great post by Epicurious, two important details are explained. 1. Peels can impart a bitter flavor and 2. the skin is where a ton of healthful compounds are found. Indeed, 98 percent of flavonols are found in the skin. The USDA further confirmed that thicker skins may impart a bitterness, but it is safe to include them in canning recipes.

I decided that the health benefit and time savings were worth the possible risk of bitterness, and mitigated this risk by choosing cherry tomatoes and tomatoes with thinner skins.

I found that the following recipe had NO BITTERNESS and was so much faster than peeling tomatoes. You’ll never go back to peeling, I’m sure.

Easy Tomato Sauce Canning Recipe

You will need 

12 pounds cherry or other thin-skinned tomatoes, halved or quartered

1/2 a medium onion, diced

2 teaspoons chopped garlic, jarred type is fine

2 tablespoons olive oil, 2 teaspoons salt, 1 teaspoon black pepper

citric acid – 1/2 teaspoon added to each pint jar upon lid application

1. Prepare your water bath canning pot or your steam canner. Fill the water bath canning pot with water, add 7 pint jars, and bring to a boil OR fill the steam canner to fill line and turn on low with the 7 pint jars nearby on a towel-covered counter top. 

2. Blend the tomatoes.  Start on the “food chop” setting, and then move to a “medium blend setting”, for up to two minutes or until the visible skin pieces in the blender are smaller than half an inch.

3. Combine olive oil, garlic, and onion in the bottom of a preserving pan at medium-low heat and cook till onion is soft. Add salt and pepper.

4.Pour the blended tomato on top ofthe cooked garlic & onion mixture and stir to combine. Repeat the blending process until all tomatoes are blended and added.

5. Cook on medium heat until sauce is reduced, darker red in color, about 1 hour.

6. Ladle into jars one at a time, add 1/2 teaspoon citric acid to each jar, maintain 1/2 inch headspace, apply lids and rings, and either submerge into the boiling water of the boiling water bath with a jar lifter  OR set gently on the rack of the steam canner. 

7. Process for 25 minutes PLUS 5 minutes for every 1000 ft above sea level. Remove from heat, rest jars carefully on towel covered countertop. Label cooled jars and store for up to 1 year. Yields 8-10 pints.

Download the free printable of this recipe below

Easy Tomato Sauce Canning | This recipe skips the peeling step, which saves a ton of time! You'll never go back to peeling tomatoes when canning again!

Get canning jar labels for this and every recipe here!

Round Canning Jar Labels | Love Into Jars

For the Canning Jump Start Guide, a beautiful visual guide packed with canning step-by-step guidance and recipes, dive in here!

Canning Jump Start Guide | Make jam, salsa, and canned veggies and fruit in under an hour!

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