the ball jar company has good recipies.
and goooogle...

While I don't have any recipes, I do know someone who does, and can get some recommendations from you.

What with gas prices and whatnot, we are going to see a significant rise in fuel prices.

Aah, high gas prices... Only one of the many reasons that we run 2 cars on Grease. ;-) It's recycled, and free! :-D

But I will tell you anyhow, that the grease tank is separate from the main tank, and you switch back and forth. The coolant line runs through the grease line, and heats it up before the car can be switched over to grease.

For more, check out GreaseCar.com. :-D

That's also why Fred and I are volunteering with Co-op Power who is trying to get a controling share of Northeast Biodiesel in Greenfield. We're trying to get more pumps around, but have to get members first. Northeast Bio is going to be the first plant that uses waste oil. :-D As it is, we have to go to Brattleboro to get our Biodiesel. So it's lucky that on grease we only fill the cars once every 2-3 months. :-)

THESE SITES ARE VERY GOOD FOR ALL SORT OF STORAGE RECIPES

http://www.backwoodshome.com/current_issue.html

http://www.motherearthnews.com/index.php?page=main

THEY GO OFF ON A LOT OF OTHER ITEMS TOO/ INDEPENDENT LIVING OFF THE GRID AND SURVIVALIST STUFF TOO SOMETIMES (ESPECIALLY THE BACKWOODS ONE).

As someone else commented, Ball has good canning info. If you're going to get into canning anything other than tomatoes (which you can do in a simple water bath) you should invest in a pressure canner. It will allow you to process low acid veggies like corn or beans. My pressure canner came with a great instruction book that covers most things you'd want to can.

You should also look into buying a portion of an animal (pig, beef, etc.) having it cut into managable pieces and freezing it. For that you might want to invest in a food sealer (Fergus has one, he can tell you about it) to vacuum seal freezer packs.

Best of luck with this!

Luke (If you want to talk further about it, just drop me an email.)

I have several recipes for canning. What do you want to make? I'll send you some recipes when I get home on the weekend?

Gwen

Hi;
You don't know me, but I've done a fair bit of canning and the like, so I figured I'd comment.
One of my current favorite books is "Putting Food By." It's got a lot of up-to-date information and should be available.
If you're looking for older or oddball recipies, please drop me a line; I've been collecting books on preserving for many years.

Good luck, have fun.

You do know me and I agree that "Putting Food By" would be a good one. I think my mom has it. I'll see if she has any others to suggest. (Mom = organic gardener, get eggs (and milk at one time) from local farm, we even grew our own meat at one point. So I grew up with canning and all that. Hard to do in a condo, darn regulations banning fowl and livestock!)

Freezing is super easy for veggies. It's basically just blanche, drain, toss in a baggie then into the freezer. You can also blanche, drain, place on cookie sheet then place in freezer until frozen and transfer to baggie tossed back into the freezer if you want to get fancy. Easier to get just the amount that you want.

Also, this makes for a good read regarding bio-diesel: http://ruralvermont.org/archives/FPN%209-04.pdf
You might be interested in Rural Vermont if you didn't already know about it.

I'm kinda local and I'd get into that.

I mention canning and preserving meat to a co-worker right before Pennsic, and he pulled out "Putting Food By". Swore by it. I took it home and read through it. Very good and well written. Beyond that Ball is great.

hokay, this admittedly has nothing to do with your above post, but it was lovely to see you and mark at the dark place for labor day and now i have come to realize that i have neither of your email addresses anymore. :< (damn not using aol anymore and not transferring my address book!) i can be reached at isadoraannabelle@yahoo.com. (or through this lj)

I don't have recipes, but I wanted to know I 'friended' you. so it wouldn't be all weird and stalker-ish.
That'll be later when I'm outside your house with a camera, hot wings and a rubber hose.
smooch,
Luna

Any news?

Nothing to do with your ancient recipe request, but congratulations!