
Canning Spaghetti sauce - Ask Extension
Sep 4, 2024 · Hi Sue, Thanks for reaching out. The lemon juice added to most canned tomato recipes is an essential ingredient for safety because tomatoes are often not acidic enough to …
Lemon tree - fruit falling off prematurely - Ask Extension
Apr 17, 2020 · I have a Meyer lemon tree that seems to be healthy, gets plenty of blooms and lemons after blooming. Within a month or two, the tiny lemons fall off. The tree is in a sunroom …
Canning tomato sauce - Ask Extension
Sep 7, 2025 · This recipe does not require adding lemon juice, but it must be processed in a pressure canner to have a safe product. Pints process for 20 minutes, and quarts process for …
Adding lemon juice to apple butter? - Ask Extension
Oct 22, 2018 · You can add lemon juice to apple sauce or butter with no concerns about safety. It will make it more acidic, which is even safer than just the apples. Be sure to keep the butter …
Substituting lemon juice for vinegar - Ask Extension
Nov 21, 2017 · Hi, In the USDA recipes for salsa, it is safe to substitute bottled lemon or lime juice for the vinegar in the recipes that call for vinegar. It is substituted on a cup for cup basis (i.e. …
White grape jam recipe — low/no sugar pectin (Ball) - Ask Extension
Aug 25, 2025 · You can safely make the low no sugar jam using grapes with the Ball low/no sugar Pectin. The fruits that require lemon juice to set up are listed, other fruits have enough natural …
Canning Recipe - Ask Extension
Apr 23, 2024 · I was given a large amount of lemons and am trying to find a tested lemonade concentrate (or lemonade or lemon syrup) recipe to use to water bath can them. I have …
What kind of plant is this? - Ask Extension
Jan 9, 2016 · the leaves are fuzzy and smell lemon and some kind of mint. It is not native to this location, I'm not sure where it's from.
lemon tree problem - Ask Extension
Mar 25, 2021 · Hi, it is lovely that your lemon tree is flowering! I hope that you are enjoying it's fragrant blooms. There are several things that could be causing your lemon tree to drop it's …
Canning tea at home - Ask Extension
Feb 10, 2025 · The recipe uses 3.5 cups water, 4 tea bags, 1 cup sugar, 1 cup honey, & 3 tbsp lemon juice (with the option of using honey as the only sweetener). This is the canning liquid …