Preserving Pantry
Homesteadweight 1tracker · keeps what you put in
In September the kitchen steams and the jars multiply; in February you stand before the shelf wondering which chutney is from which year. The Preserving Pantry keeps the shelf legible: each jar or batch, its type — jam, pickle, chutney, sauce, cordial or other — when it was put up, how many jars, and notes. The label on the lid fades; the ledger does not.
This is not a screenshot. It's the real tool, running right here — go on, put something in it.
Open the demo full-screen: /demos/preserving-pantry.html
What it keeps
- Jar / batchshort text
- Typechoice · Jam / Pickle / Chutney / Sauce / Cordial / Other
- Put update
- Jarsnumber
- Notesnotes
Questions people ask
How do I keep track of home canning batches?
One row per batch: what it is, the date you put it up, how many jars it made, and notes on the recipe or tweaks. When someone praises the plum jam, you will know exactly which batch to repeat.
What should go in the notes for each batch?
The things February-you will ask: which recipe, how much sugar, which fruit from which tree, whether the set was soft. Also the verdicts, as jars get opened — that is how a good preserving year becomes repeatable.
Does the pantry list live online somewhere?
No — it lives with you, in one HTML file that runs offline in the browser. No account, no server, nothing leaves the page. Like the jars themselves: made at home, kept at home.
Fits your knife at weight 1. Nothing here is final — Knife follows Life. Reforging within your tier is free, forever. Add it, drop it, reforge later; the file stays yours either way.