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Food Preservation and Storage Re-Skilling Workshop Presentation by Eva Cates and Donna Wellman August 12, 2009 Sponsored by
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Why and What to Preserve and Store? Food Preservation -- retarding the aging process and preventing spoilage, thereby maintaining taste and nutritional value.
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Why preserve and store food? For your family’s health Cost effective Convenience Unexpected Events
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What does my family need? What should we store? –Make a list of 4 days of favorite foods Four breakfasts Four lunches Four dinners Don’t forget the snacks Use this list to develop your food preservation and storage
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Food Storage What space do I have? –Turn a closet into a pantry –Dried herbs and foods take up little space –Use bookshelves in the garage or laundry room –Wire shelves on the back of a door –Turn an unheated room into root crop storage More on root crop storage later –Boot out the dust bunnies and use space under your beds
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What technique should I use to preserve food? Refrigeration and Freezing Drying Root Cellaring Fermentation Salting Milling Canning (Video)
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Refrigeration and Freezing
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Techniques Tips Containers…Storage life…Requires constant electricity
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Drying
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Sun-dried
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Out of Sun Garlic Onions Herbs Beans
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Root Cellaring
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Canning
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