Canning with Crackerberries

by Crackerberries

Preserving and canning the harvest from the garden is easier than you think. With a basket full of veggies or fruits from the tree, enjoy homemade pickles, relishes and other tasty recipes year round. You'll find recipes for pickles, relishes, tomatoes, preserves, jams and jellies as well as several miscellaneous specialty recipes.

59 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 30, 2014

About the author

Born a descendant of Mary Chilton, the first woman to land on Plymouth Rock, Crackerberries grew up in rural Maine. She developed the love for newspapers the summer of the sixth grade, when her family stayed in a camp without running water or electricity in Ripley, Maine.

Under the camp porch were stacks upon stacks of old newspapers. She read, and then, fervently cut out the articles that interested her. She learned scrapbooking at the young age of twelve by pasting the articles of interest neatly amongst the pages of Ladies Home Journal and Better Homes and Garden. (She still has a couple of these old scrap-magazines with yellowed articles.)

In high school Crackerberries wrote for the school newspaper and published her first and only front page article in 1982. She also helped with design, marketing, and editing the high school year book for two years and was co-editor her senior year.

Years passed and Crackerberries writing career took backseat to marriage and babies and ultimately a real paying job (just-over-broke). She didn’t give up writing and took correspondent courses with The Institute of Children’s Literature, Writer’s Digest, as well as college creative writing courses. She just never took the time to write and put the effort in trying to sell her stories.

In the late nineties, she landed a job at a direct mail/marketing company and was offered the task of writing the company newsletter. She wrote on and off for seven years.

Finally she gave that job up and moved to South Carolina. She became co-owner of a small business. She created and designed the company website as well as all marketing materials, and had the time to write more often.

Crackerberries wrote a promotional cookbook for a Christian Discipleship program designated to help men and women suffering from drug and alcohol abuse. Her recipes have been published in Cooking Pleasures and her recipe blog my link text has been a great tool for many cooks.

Anyone can write a biography to bring accolades to themselves. Crackerberries believes there is an innovative way to write something old to make it seem new and fresh. She hopes that one is not judged on their biography but on their ability to make people laugh, cry or ponder in thought at telling a good story. As the old saying goes, ‘don’t judge a book by its cover’.

Crackerberries spends most days writing, unless the trees have fruit to preserve, and the garden has veggies to harvest.