April canning recipes start with the first fresh produce of spring, and start to bring us out of the heavier meals of winter.
April Canning Recipes
In most parts of the country, April means fresh spring greens, asparagus, strawberries, early rhubarb, and green peas. For foragers in moderate climates, you’ll also see fiddleheads, ramps, spruce tips, and other fun wild edibles.
At the grocery store, April is peak pineapple season, and you can often get them for a dollar a piece…making it the perfect time for pineapple canning recipes, too!
Spring Fruit Canning Recipes
Spring Jams and Jellies
Old Fashioned Strawberry Jam (No added pectin)
Late Spring Pickling Recipes
Late Spring Vegetable Canning Recipes
Late Spring Meal in a Jar Canning Recipes
If there’s a canning or preserving recipe that you’d like to find, please do let me know in the comments, and I’ll see what I can do to track it down for you.
Happy Canning!
-Ashley at Creative Canning
(Ps. I also run the blog Practical Self Reliance, which has information on all manner of food preservation techniques (cheesemaking, salt curing, winemaking) as well as just about everything else you’d need to learn to be self-reliant in this modern world. It has its own substack as well, and you can subscribe to practical self-reliance separately as well. That newsletter comes out weekly and covers canning, as well as everything else.)
Hi Ashley, I have a wonderful recipe for nasturtium jelly. It came from an older book about flowers. May I send it to you to add to your archives? It would be fun to see what you do with it.
Best wishes and thanks for your timeless offering.
my favorite thing to can is chicken!!!
it’s so simple and the perfect thing to keep on hand!