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So delicious

Next time, see about replacing more of the water with vinegar...maybe.   it needs to age a few weeks to be sure

It doesn't look very impressive at first.

But the smell!  So good!

I don't do enough canning to know how accurate this is.  

The advise i was given
1. Always allow ample head space inside the jar.
2. When jar cooled from canning, remove ring, clean ring and outside of jar.  Let dry overnight before returning ring
3. Avoid tilting the food so it touches the lid.
4. For this person, most of the risk was in using the jars and keeping in fridge, so choosing jars for one session worth of food (meal, week, whatever) was preferred.

I think there must be more to it than that.  The storage was a former spare bedroom in the basement that was surprisingly cold and dry for that climate.  She was very aware of temperature change when moving jars in and out.

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I wish to make it clear that I like the idea of promoting lots of things in lots of ways here.  

I like the idea of promoting:

web sites / blogs / youtube channels

products

workshops

convergences/conferences

PDCs

books

DVDS/videos

kickstarters

groups

seeds and starts

singles ads

real estate

and lots lots more

Some web sites (and especially forums) want to make it seem like there is nothing in the world except for that one site.  I, on the other hand, like the idea that permies.com is packed with information about every other permaculture and homesteading site in the world.   And I fully embrace the idea that this site is a community for a certain flavor of odd ducks, while there are a thousand other sites that serve other flavors of odd ducks.   We are one community out of many.  And we like knowing about all the others. I want permies to be the richest place to find out about workshops and PDCs all around the world.

Facebook and other social media sites are making it progressively more and more difficult to let your audience know about your stuff unless you fork out oodles of money. You could have thousands of followers on your page, and only 300 of them see your post unless you pay to boost it. Permies is not like that at all. In fact, I feel both free (and not-free) advertising efforts will go a lot farther here on permies than elsewhere.


First, be aware of all the free advertising you can do here at permies.com:

make a media rich thread about your organization/website/book/thing/whatever
      - if you buy a piece of pie, you can add your thread to more forums
      - every reply to your thread, bumps it to the top of our home page!
      - reply to it every few days with new info or videos about your thing
            - put our social media icon on your site and link it to your thread so it gets bumped more!
      - in time, your thread could become "best" and appear permanently on a forum page

offering freebies to our pie people gets you listed to our heavily advertised pie program!

put a link to your stuff in your signature and write lots of excellent posts!

offer stuff in our book/dvd/event/pie promotions

get your stuff lined up for a review.  Provide some of your stuff to our reviewers: book reviews or product reviews

give your stuff to some of our staff and hope that they talk about it a lot

check out our paid advertising stuff below and arrange a media trade.  Banner-for-banner, or mailing-list mention for mailing-list mention, etc.

if we like your stuff, and you set it up in our digital market with a 40% affiliate fee, we might advertise the hell out of it.

some stuff in our digital market qualifies to be in our dailyish freebie list - which mysteriously seems to end up being sold

some stuff in our digital market qualifies to be in our future kickstarters - some of which we pay for

Oodles of details here.


How to avoid looking like a spammer:

Make one thread about your service/product/event. Make this thread look nice and professional using formatting tags, and post replies, updates, new pictures, etc to that thread. Multiple threads saying the same thing look spammy.

Add your one thread to multiple forums by using PIE &/or Thread Boost. This allows your thread to show up in multiple forums.

Make your thread a wiki. This allows you to edit whenever you like to add new pictures or update information. You can make a post a wiki through the "wiki" tab when you compose or edit your post. The "wiki" tab is next to the attachments tab where you add pictures.

Refrain from posting about your product/event/service on other people's threads unless it makes sense. If you make a lot of posts about your service on other people's threads, especially in a row, we will assume you are a spammer and your posts will be deleted. Add your link to your signature, and post only about your service/product/event when it is very relevant and helpful to the conversation.

The paid stuff:

We have been having massive success with thread boost.  You create a thread for each product, or about your company, and then use a toolset to boost the thread.  It is a technique that fits well with our users - and now they learn about your products and your business as it is comfortable to them.

banners at the top of the forums, plus get in on the big list which is linked to from every page
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Buy Thread Boost on a thread you've made here on permies

sponsorship in the podcasts

a paragraph or so in the daily-ish email
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a "tiny ad" in the daily-ish email
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in-forum links
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banners/offers throughout the content at richsoil.com

producer credits/mention in upcoming youtube videos

arrange to do a product giveaway or book giveaway and have a mention of your product/book at the top of the forums all week, and a mention in our weeklyish email (which goes out to over 63,000 people)

run your video at the top of our forums

we might be convinced to add a bumper sticker for you

adding magic love to your thread so it gets more attention

adding a mention of your product in wiki pages that can only be edited by staff

Do a lot of the free stuff for you

buy pie and give it out to folks that mention how great your stuff is

buy pie and give it out to folks that might like you and your stuff

Thread Boost

Thread Boost allows you to choose exactly how you want to promote your thread about your business/event. There's options for every price point. Here's just some of the options:

Similar Threads--have your thread show up on multiple related threads in their "similar threads" section

Auto-link--Select a word or phrase, and a ‘look-up’ will be done to find out how many threads contain that phrase

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DX5 ads -- DX5 ads are the tiny ads that appear at the bottom of every thread. You can chose the wording of your ad, how often it shows up, where it shows up, and a lot more!

Tiny ads for emails--DX5 tiny ads in all of the emails that get sent out.

...and many more options!

Find out more here!


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Here's what these ads usually look like:



They appear at the bottom of a thread, with a random line of what we call 'silly text'. The original version, DX1, was just that simple, however, DX5 has conversion rate optimization built into the software. As your add runs, the CTR is tracked alongside the text that is run with your ad. The text with the most effective CTR gets run the most, and the process continues to sharpen and fine tune itself.

To create one of these ads, click here.

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If you are all ready to part with coin, please email paul at richsoil.com.

Thanks!

Ingredients at the ready.  Jars sterilizing.

For some reason I remember this being more complicated.

Based loosely on recipe 392 of Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management, I had to make a few changes.  I have a tender place in my heart for anyone who applies garlic by the quarter pound, I must admit that some of the other ingredient quantities were a bit unusual to the modern taste.  So changes were made to method and quantities but without Mrs B's little book, I wouldn't have thought to make such a scrummy chutney.

Here's a little note that Mrs Beeton gives regarding her version of the recipe:

This recipe was given by a native to an English Lady, who had long been a resident in India, and who, since her return to her native country, has become quite celebrated amongst her friends for the excellence of this Eastern relish.

Sweet "Mango" Chutney
All ingredients are approximate

3 large onions
drizzle olive oil
2 Tbs mustard seed
1 Tbs powdered ginger
4 dry chilies lightly crushed (seeds included)
a large handful of garlic
At least 6 unripe apples, peeled, cored and cut into chunks less than 1 inch cubed.
1 cup raisins
2 cups apple cider vinegar or equivalent
1 to 2 cups of sugar
boiling water
2 Tbs salt


Chop the onions into about 1/2 inch chunks, in a large heavy bottom pot, fry onions on medium-low with olive oil until transparent
add mustard seed, ginger, chili and garlic to the onions, stir well, cook about one min
add apples, raisons and vinegar to the onion mix, bring to boil and then turn off heat
Mix 1 cup of sugar with 1 cup of boiling water to make a syrup.  Mix until sugar is dissolved
Add syrup and salt to the apples.  Mix well and bring back to a boil.  Taste and add more sugar as necessary.  Boil on high for about 5 to 15 min or until enough liquid has evaporated.  Mixture will thicken as it cools.
Place into washed (and if you like, sterilized) jars, seal with lid as per normal.  Because of the spices, salt and sugar, I didn't heat process these jars.  Mrs B never did, she just tightly wrapped the mouth of the jars with sheep bladders.  But as sheep bladders are hard to come by these days, so it's up to you to know how to safely can your food.  If you have any doubt, keep it in the fridge.

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From a very old blog of mine.

FINALLY, it's chutney making day again.

I'm so glad the recipe was still there.  I love this stuff.

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Brilliant use of everyday dollar store things to make an oil paint clove box.

Good idea not to put too much oil.  I've had clove oil desolve some plastics...which i should have remembered as essential oils can do that.

No time to evaluate this information just now,  but the rabbit hole lead me to

https://www.artiscreation.com/white.html#eggshell

EGG SHELLS as a source of medium?

Calcite as I keep calling it may not be the best word, but easier to spell than calcium carbonate, seems to have several paths to aquire it.  Limestone, marble, chalk...and possibly eggs.

Eggshell White [KP.p];

Calx de tistis ovorum;

Shell White

Powdered egg shells; mostly calcium carbonate; Brown eggs contain Ooporphyrin with a small amount of biliverdin with 2-3% eggshell pigment; (Ref)

Recipe from Secrets of Alessio Piemontese, 1557:
"Take fresh well washed eggshells, which are the pureset white, and grind them with the cleanest water on a marble slab until they are perfectly ground. Then put these crushed eggshells and water into a clean bowl, and let the powder settle to the bottom and then drain away the water carefully and allow the powder to dry naturally and you will have an incomparable white which cannot be surpassed by lead white or any other white in the world, if it is made carefully and well.." - (*Secreti di Don Alessio Piemontese [Secrets of Alessio Piemontese], 1557).

Colours depend on egg shell colour

White; light brown*; light blue*

† Any tint is from natural protoporphyrin, ooporphyrin and biliverdin (brown) or bilirubin (blue) and will quickly fade, however the white from Calcium Carbonate will not.

Very transparent in oil, opaque in water medium and fresco

Used as a white in watercolor and fresco in olden days, also used as a base for lake pigments and filler / extender in oils.

* Any coloring other than white is fugitive;

Not rated by the ASTM, calcium carbonate has a long history used as a pigment and will not fade from sunlight. However it can become discolored with age from atmospheric pollution, dust, smoke and yellowing of the binder. It is also susceptible to chemical breakdown from acids

Ah... decenting opinion

https://www.wetcanvas.com/forums/topic/museum-visit-how-d-they-get-those-whites/

They are wrong about transparency in oil of Eggshell white paint. I can agree, that Chalk and Marble dust Calcium Carbonate is totally transparent in oil, but not eggshell white. It is opaque, the opacity can be comparable with Zinc White or Lead white. Such pigment contains sealed air bubbles, that gives surprisingly good level of opacity to it. After grinding with linseed oil it has fantastic rheology to use for layered portrait technique!

I feel the need to experiment.

Looks like the shell needs some specific treatment to get it ready for being a pigment like removing thin film (protein?) from from crashed eggshell.