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season: early-summer
section: putting up
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- blueberries begin mid-june and run through july. freeze on sheet pans, then bag. they keep a year and a half without softening.
- sour cherries for pie filling, sweet cherries for brandy. pit the first, leave the second whole.
- snap peas and snow peas blanch and freeze fast. four minutes in boiling water, then ice, then bag.
- the first cucumbers are pickling cucumbers. dill spears go in vinegar; half-sours go in salt brine in a crock at sixty-five to seventy degrees.
- garlic comes out of the ground at the end of june. cure it two weeks in airy shade, then braid or trim.
- summer squash makes a fine pickle, sweet or sour, when there is more than the kitchen can use.
- mulberries and black raspberries: jam, syrup, or freeze on sheet pans before they sour.
- dilly beans go up with the first beans. one pound per pint, dill head, garlic clove, hot pepper, vinegar brine.