Canning Part ll

If you are like me, you may have fallen in love with the romance of canning after reading about Laura Ingalls Wilder's pantry. But don't be fooled into thinking you need a big, country style kitchen to preserve food. Canning in small batches isn't necessarily a disadvantage. It allows you to focus more on variety than quantity. Every canning recipe can be safely scaled down if you'd prefer to produce just four pints of something instead of 12. If you clean as you go, you can do all the work of canning including chopping the food, filling the jars, and setting them out for cooling in a 2 foot square counter space. And space for those extra foods?  How about tucked under your desk, in a bookshelf or even in your closet!