Canned cantaloupe

Here are three ways to preserve cantaloupe or muskmelon to add to your long-term food storage. Create tasty snacks your family will love, and keep that melony goodness all year long.

Make your own jam in the crock pot! This vanilla cantaloupe jam recipe is delicious as an appetizer with cream cheese on a cracker, or just on toast!

Capture summer flavors with this unique melon jam.

This week our local grocery store had their cantaloupes for .25 each! So how do you preserve an abundance of cantaloupe? You can cube and freeze for smoothies or you can can them. Here is a great recipe that would make an excellent side dish. Spiced Pickled Cantaloupe 8 firm cantaloupes, cubed 2 cupes pickling lime 8 1/2 quarts water 6 cups white wine vinegar 6 cups water 24 cups sugar (3 - 4 lb bags) 2 T powdered cloves 2 T ground allspice 2 T ground ginger Peppercorns In a five gallon food…

Turn your abundant summer garden cantaloupe into a delicious salted vanilla cantaloupe jam. Preserve it simply in a water bath canner for months of food.

I received another 3 cantaloupes the other day and of course I can't let them go to waste!! So what to do other than pickling them? What about jam or preserves? Works for me! I used this recipe in post 3696 but I needed to tweek it a bit because, well, I'm not going near another orange for a while and I may be giving some of this to diabetic and sugar sensitive friends. I also wanted it a bit smoother for my own texture preferences. So here's what I did: Cantaloupe Jam 5 1/2 cups cantaloupe…

Preserve fresh pineapple by making a delicious pina colada jam in the water bath canner. Adding some great rum really kicks this jam up a notch.

Delicious cantaloupe jam with less sugar and no store-bought pectin.

Here’s a quick recipe I thought I’d share in case you had cantaloupe coming out of your garden already and didn’t know what to do with it all. I’ll be honest and say that m…

A fun new way to enjoy a favourite fruit! I’ve often said that I’ll pickle just about anything that isn’t nailed down (kumquats, cauliflower, strawberries and blueberries are just a few of my new …