I’m a huge history person and I enjoy making things from scratch and serving those to my husband/family/friends like they did in the olden days. Last year when my husband and I first moved out onto our own, I watched tutorials for weeks until I built enough confidence to can something. I bought numerous books, watched what horrible things could go wrong (definitely not something you should do before preparing to can), bought all my ingredients/gear and set out to make some apple butter.

I made the apple butter with a combination of recipes (the flavor turned out just like the store bought ones), put them in a hot-water bath, pulled them out after their due time, and waited. It was the longest night and following day of my cooking career… finding out if something worked or didn’t. I’m proud to say it did (I might even have cried? Who knows.) and since then I’ve made numerous things.

So I really appreciate this series of posts you’re about to do. I’m a huge believer in people bring history (if that’s what one would call it) back to life and doing a little more work to experience something extremely enjoyable down the road.