Food & Food Preservation

Food:

Moved from Home, Farm, Ranch

See also:

  • Food Preservation, below
  • Cold Storage
  • Files: Culturing & Fermentation

ESP Files:

  • EssentiaList Handout: Storage of Produce (128 kb pdf) includes tips for storing fruits, vegetables and grains, and cold storage options for root veggies
  • The EssentiaList: Sourdough Handout (pdf).
  • Food Safety and Pasteurization
  • Rendering Lard in a Crockpot (pdf)
  • The EssentiaList: Homemade Apple Cider (4-page pdf includes soft and hard cider recipes)
  • Sweet Cravings Part 1: Natural Sugar Sweeteners (5 pages)
  • Sweet Cravings Part 2: Corn Syrups, Agave Nectar & Aguamiel (6 pages)
  • Sweet Cravings Part 3: Stevia, Xylitol and Artificial Sweeteners (6 pages)

Links & External Sites:

  • Azure Foods (Dufur, OR), a bulk and natural foods store.  Browse online or order a catalogue.  Order locally through Flathead Co-op to take advantage of bulk pricing. Contact Linda Barone, PO Box 4063, Whitefish 59937; 756-9594, starpathmontana(at)yahoo(dot)com.
  • Eat Wild.com about pasture-raised food and facts.
  • Food Routess and Buy Fresh Buy Local (AERO-MT)
  • Fridge-Less Living, from Mother Earth News includes root cellars, gardening concerns, preservation, catalogues and supply sources, etc.
  • Grass-fed beef in Montana:   Montana Organic Producer’s Co-op including list of Ranches that will ship grass-fed meats, such as LaCense Beef(Dillon),  Grapevine Ranch (Billings).  Grassland Beef online store(AKA US Wellness Meats)
  • Michael Pollan Debunks Food Myths: an interview after release of his book “In Defense of Food”
  • Say NO to Plastic Bags (from npr.org and the Pocono Record).
  • Raw Milk: Panacea or Poison, from npr.org
  • Supermarket Secrets:  videos on supermarket food quality (from England): also Supermarket Secrets, Part 2

Food Preservation

See also:

  • Files: Putting Food By
  • Files: Culturing & Fermentation

ESP Files

  • Gathering Summary: Putting Food By, July 22, 2009
  • Gathering Summary: Fish Preservation by Smoking & Canning, Jan 27, 2010

Books

  • Sweet and Hard Cider by Annie Proulx and Lew Nichols 1995
  • Keeping Food Fresh: Old World Techniques and Recipes by The Gardeners and Farmers of Terre Vivante 1999
  • Wild Fermentation, by Sandor Elix Katz, 2003

Brining:

ESP Files

  • Corning Beef (Salt Brine) (104 kb, written by Cat for Edible Missoulamagazine)
  • Gathering Summary: Fish Preservation by Smoking & Canning, Jan 27, 2010

Canning:

ESP Files

  • The EssentiaList: Pressure Canning at Home: Info & Sources (132 kb pdf)
  • The EssentiaList: Hot-Bath Canning at Home: Info & Sources (120 kb pdf)
  • The EssentiaList: Home Canning Tables (Pressure & Hot Bath)) (240 kb pdf)
  • Gathering Summary: Canning & Dehydrating Foods
  • Gathering Summary: Fish Preservation by Smoking & Canning, Jan 27, 2010

External sites

  • Home Caning Guide from Montana Extension Service; Flathead County Extension Office

Culturing (Dairy):

see also: Files: Culturing & Fermentation

ESP Files

Dehydrating:

ESP Files

  • Gathering Summary: Canning & Dehydrating Foods

Fermenting:

see also: Files: Culturing & Fermentation

ESP Files

  • The EssentiaList: Pickling & Lacto-Fermentation Introduction, Sources, & Recipes (112 kb)
  • The EssentiaList: Sauerkraut Recipes, including Melanie’s recipe (148 kb)

Jam Making:

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Jerking:

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Pasteurization:

ESP Files

  • Food Safety and Pasteurization

Salting:

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Smoking:

  • Gathering Summary: Fish Preservation by Smoking & Canning, Jan 27, 2010

Storage of Produce:

ESP Files

  • The EssentiaList: Winter storage of fruits and veggies; Grain storage (128 kb pdf)

 

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