Preserving Foods
These are sweet or sour and made from cucumbers...
What are pickles?
Crisp pickles start with homegrown cucumbers specifically grown for pickles. Commercial cucumbers are coated in wax, and they’re too large in diameter, so they make floppy pickles.
This is known at the ship that was unsinkable...
What is the RMS Titanic?
Morgan Robertson wrote the novella Futility about Titan, an unsinkable ship, 14 years before the Titanic sank—a novella that seemed to foretell the real ship’s story. After the Titanic sank, he expanded the novella into the book Futility or the Wreck of the Titan, which added more details from the real event.
This is skiing on flat terrain and gentle slopes...
What is cross-country skiing?
This is short for men's formal eveningwear, starting with T.
What is Tux?
It's short for tuxedo.
This brand of jars is most readily associated with at-home canning...
What is Ball?
The Ball brothers started making their jars for home canning in 1884.
The Pilgrims arrived in Massachusetts on this ship...
What is the Mayflower?
The voyage was financed by business people in Holland in exchange for seven years’ worth of goods that would be shipped back to them.
If you come up too fast from this, you can get decompression illness or what’s commonly called “the bends.”...
What is scuba diving?
It’s not only painful to ascend too quickly, but it can be fatal. Too rapid an ascent causes nitrogen bubbles in the bloodstream, resulting in many deleterious effects.
This is a vessel for carrying water, ending with a G.
What is a jug?
This is a popular term for preserving something in jars...
What is canning?
In 1810, the first tin can was approved for preserving foods commercially. At first, the containers were called canisters and later shortened to can. The term carried over for foods preserved at home in glass jars.
In 1941, the American battleship USS Arizona was sunk here...
Where is Pearl Harbor or Hawaai?
Some of the survivors’ ashes have been buried in urns beneath the ship’s gun turrets.
This can be done tandem or freefall...
What is skydiving or parachuting?
There are other types of skydiving, such as diving in a formation.
You use this to write. It's similar to a pencil, but difficult to erase it's ink...
What is a pen?
If you have room, this is the easiest way to preserve berries...
What is freeze them?
Place unwashed berries in a zipper bag, squeeze the air out of the bag before closing it, and toss it in the freezer. If you want separately frozen berries, freeze them in a single layer on a jelly-roll pan and then put them in a zipper bag. Wash them when you’re ready to use them. Frozen berries keep six to eight months in the freezer
This was one of the two other ships that sailed with Christopher Columbus’ flagship Santa Maria...
What is the Pinta or Nina?
The Santa Maria was the cargo ship and was larger and heavier than the other two.
You’ll need to know these terms to actively participate in this type of boating: mast, jib, and boom...
What is sailing?
The jib is a small sail. The mainsail is the largest sail and is attached to the mast and boom. An excellent compliment to give a boat-loving friend is to say, “I like the cut of your jib.”
This is the opposite of sorrow or sadness, beginning with a J.
What is joy?
True or False: You can freeze corn kettles at home...
What is true?
You don’t have to can them or blanch them before freezing. Just toss them into a zipper bag and remove the excess air before sealing.
“Old Ironsides” is the nickname for this American warship built in 1797.
What is the USS Constitution?
It is one of the world's oldest warships.
If you’re up in the air attached to a parachute above you and a moving speedboat below you, you’re doing this...
What is parasailing?
Parasaildestin.com compares it to “skydiving behind a boat,” but you’re only 800–1,200 feet in the air
There's an expression that calls someone "crazy like..." one of these animals, starting with the letter F...
What is fox?
Foxes are clever, crafty animals. When someone acts erratically but has a method to their madness, we say the person is “crazy like a fox.”