Extension to offer recipes to freeze berries, make jam, jellies

College of Maine Cooperative Extension educator will reveal strategies for freezing strawberries, and how to minimize the sugar written content when creating strawberry jam to increase obtain to a year-spherical source of local foodstuff, lower back on sugar and minimize grocery bills. Photo courtesy of UMaine Cooperative Extension

ORONO — Freezing berries in year and making very low-sugar do-it-yourself jams and jellies are some of the techniques to increase accessibility to a yr-spherical supply of local food items, cut back again on sugar and decrease grocery bills.

University of Maine Cooperative Extension educator Kathy Savoie demonstrates approaches for freezing strawberries in an straightforward-to-follow video, as properly as how to minimize the sugar information when building strawberry jam in an additional shorter movie, according to a information release from the Orono-dependent extension.

UMaine Extension is also presenting future food stuff preservation workshops, in individual or by webinar, to coincide with the arrival of Maine’s seasonal food items, along with the month-to-month Spoonful Site that includes recipes and bite-sized foodstuff and nourishment information and facts.

Extension publications can offer techniques to discover, increase, use, store and protect in-season fruits and greens.

Publications offered include Let us Preserve Strawberries Let’s Protect Jellies, Jams, Spreads  Let’s Maintain: Leafy Greens Freezing Fruits Freezing Vegetables and Vegetables and Fruits for Wellness: Peas.

Updated information and facts, and publications to download or buy, are out there at extension.umaine.edu, or by contacting 207-581-3188, 800-287-0274 or emailing [email protected].

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